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Ellen Ritchey's avatar

Looking forward to the book! See you at the ACC Library!

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Virginia McLaren's avatar

Pre-ordered the book awhile ago….really looking foward to reading it. Congratulations on the movie deal.

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Charlie Salek's avatar

I like this despite the reverse jinx of my Cubbies and backhanded compliments/borderline slander of Pearl Jam. I’ll let it slide since both are in the letter’s epilogue

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Wynn Leitch's avatar

I forgot to correct the "misspelled words" so the words are still red.

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Jeff Hysen's avatar

I wonder if some people thought that the last book was about a mass shooting and didn't like the concept. They missed that it was about despair, courage, and hope during difficult times (and was beautifully written).

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Will Leitch's avatar

We definitely learned with this book to make the premise ... a little simpler.

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Ellen Ritchey's avatar

I agree, and I loved that book!

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Richard Brown's avatar

Blurb from Richard Russo. Not bad! Pre-ordered and looking forward to reading it. (BTW, sorry / not sorry my Mets swept your Cardinals last weekend.)

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Will Leitch's avatar

Got two out of three from you this weekend! (and thanks!)

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Richard Brown's avatar

Touche!

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Tori's avatar

You are correct that “Rearviewmirror” is the best Pearl Jam song.

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Kyle Dean's avatar

I'm very impressed by your book writing timeline and that you stick to it. That's super impressive to me as a person without a ton of self discipline.

Also, I might actually get super pissed at you if you don't write a book titled or subtitled, Emerald Coast Cruizin: Panama City.

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RAC's avatar

Awaiting delivery of pre-order (with excitement). Thank you for #2 on writing list. Might be marketing genius, but still boring. Even worse, has spawned (boring) copy cats.

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Lara's avatar

I also love "Rearviewmirror", though my favorite will always be "Black". I'm disappointed in Pearl Jam at the moment, though - they're playing down the street from me as I type this. I thought I'd look into tickets, since I've never seen them live. I went to Ticketbastard and there was a notice about how you can't resell the tickets above face value and the fees are displayed with the price. "Cool," I thought, "That's in line with the PJ I remember who fought against The Man over ticket prices." Then I looked at the tickets, and seats in the last row were $1000. Remember, that's not a resale price. And that's why I'm at home typing this comment to you and not rocking out at a PJ show right now. So much for fighting the good fight against our evil ticketing overlords.

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Will Leitch's avatar

I'll give them the credit for at least trying to fight the good fight at one point ...

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Dave's avatar

Very much looking forward to the book. And movie. Congrats

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Eric Jones's avatar

Still keeping my fingers crossed for a stop in Phoenix!

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Immaculate Mutant's avatar

Rearviewmirror is probably their best shredder, but overall, even though I STILL don't understand all the lyrics, I gotta go with Yellow Ledbetter. This hilarious video does not help with that either. 😁

https://youtu.be/H0OcVTrE1Oc?si=DbDjZF2a90ZGdjyq

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Alex Khalifa's avatar

You and Jeff Garlin? That will be fun.

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Will Leitch's avatar

It should be interesting!

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Kyle Whitehead's avatar

Hoping for another event at Orange and Brew in Downers Grove, Illinois!

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Kyle Dean's avatar

Every now and again I drive from St Charles to there because I really like that shop. He has really good prices as well

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