SSR Book Review

     The SSR book that I chose was Forgive Me Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick, and this tale (of 273 pages) is a fictional story that discusses social issues of the main character Leonard Peacock experiences. This book really throws you right into the thick of the story when Leonard Peacock amuses the idea of him killing his former friend Asher Beal with his grandfathers P-38 Nazi handgun, and he plans to shoot himself after. Before he proceeds to go off and hunt his prey and have a marvelous birthday he decides to give gifts, four gifts to the people that gave him some happinnes in life.(cough not his pigeon brained parents) The first gift was a Bogart hat to his next door neighbor who was like the father he never had, then the next was his college fund to his friend Baback (Iranian descent) in order to fund a no-profit charity by the name of True Democracy of Iran, later he gives his Holocaust teacher ,Herr Silverman, his granfather's bronze star from world war two, and finally his last gift was a silver necklace with a cross to his first kiss. In all honesty each of these encounters between him and these people is really heart warming as you discover how much they helped him to grow. In the beginning he started off as a traumatized kid who was mistreated by people he trusted, and eventually as he begins to think of the future of what he could be he begins he acquire some hope. What saves him more than anything (at least in my point of view ) are stories not some god or person, but something that doesn't even exist except on paper.