Michael -- Stop Reading This Book.
I've been enjoying the book and your commentary very much, but after this last chapter I can't listen to any more. There's enough bad stuff going on in the world that it doesn't add anything to my life to listen to a manufactured tragedy like that. My second son just graduated from high school, just like yours. I have one more even younger. I felt that gut kick when you read the passage just like you did. There's no need to have that sort of thing in our lives. I don't want that in my brain, and I don't think you want it in yours.
So quit reading it. Why not? I know you're committed to finishing the book, but what's more interesting? A podcast that reads a book to the end, and that's it? Or a podcast that makes the decision to quit with only a few pages to go? Maybe interview some of your friends about books they've quit. Or talk to people who feel like they need to finish a book even when they don't want to. It would be an interesting twist on the podcast. Maybe read something nice for the last few episodes. Old Calvin and Hobbes strips. The end of Pride & Prejudice. Something that isn't so ugly.
I've liked the podcast until now, and I'll follow you in your next performing endeavor, but I can't join you on the rest of this trip. Thanks so much for everything until now.
Tim
