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Title: Six Figures by Fred G. Leebron ISBN: 0-15-601064-X Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 04 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.97 (29 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: This book grows on you
Comment: When I finished this book, I would probably have rated it as a "3" but I found myself thinking about it a lot in the last day.....a sure sign that the author has made an impression on me! But this is not a real "4" but more like a 3+.
Warner Lutz is living a life of "quiet desperation". In his early 30s, he has had a career in non-profit fund raising and now sees no way to achieve the six-figure income that he thinks he needs in order to live a better life. He, his wife Megan, and their two very young children live in a too-small townhouse in Charlotte, have one old car, and worry about money all the time.
This book is populated with almost-dull characters who are fairly close to real: the frazzled wife/mother, the husband who wants it all and now, the interfering mother-in-law, and the whiny kids. Leebron expertly depicts the tensions within the Lutz household - normal tensions, I might add, usually brought on by exhaustion and the demands of parenthood.
Warner incessantly wonders about his future and his wife wonders why she ever married him (she calls him the most negative person she had ever known). I wondered the same thing. The inertia of these characters made me want to give them a swift kick.
When something terrible happens halfway through the book, the future of this family is threatened and the characters are forced to look inward even more to examine their motivations and their needs. Oddly, the Lutz's do not have one friend to turn to, to confide in. This was extremely unrealistic and a real flaw in the book. Another flaw was Warner himself--he was way too uninteresting to be the main character of a book.
Not a ringing endorsement, but a quick and interesting read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unsettling...Unconventional..Gets under your skin
Comment: I thought this looked interesting at the library and once I started it I couldn't put it down. Leebron's short, succinct, unnerving tale of a family's (near) collapse makes for fascinating reading. It's a completely unromanticized look at married life in the real world, complete with whiny spouses, annoying kids, problems at work, arguments at home, and meddling in-laws. Violence erupts without warning, and the family is nearly torn apart as each character undergoes considerable unhinging. I loved this book because it is certainly a depressing and dark look at the need to make "six figures" and keep up with the Joneses. Many of the incidents are disturbing and get under your skin. This book deserves to be thought about long after it's finished. It also benefits from loose ends that stick out like sore thumbs; as with life, certain questions are never answered. SIX FIGURES would make a great film and I couldn't help seeing it as a movie in my mind. My favorite character was Nan, the wife's bitchy mother who you soon love to loathe.
Rating: 3
Summary: How did it all go wrong?
Comment: Most readers will be able to identify with wrong career choices and the feeling of not being able to compete with some of their peers. Some of the plot twists did not seem "realistic" but wierd things happen in life.
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