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I loved Mark's book, it's so well written, and it's an emotional roller coaster that hooks you from page one and doesn't let go. The highs are really high and lows are way lower than expected. The recurring “one in a million” theme ties it all together beautifully, and I love how the story starts from Mark's desert town roots and then circles back to the desert for their triumphant comeback at Coachella. As diehard fans/self made blink historians, don't expect to find things you've never heard of, but the chapter on Robert Smith caught me off guard in the best way lol And as Kay noted this morning, the story behind "Go" was horrifying. I think Mark had to hold some juicier details from the TRL era and I'm sure he has a lot more to say about the pop disaster tour, but I understand why he didn't do it and kept telling us that Billie Joe and Mike are nice guys. Scott's complete absence from the book is another thing that wasn't unexpected. As someone who has always seen Scott as a core member despite lacking Mark and Tom's “IT factor,” I’m left wondering if maybe we should reassess his role in the band at this point. I'm just rambling- let's say thinking out loud but in this case typing lol. I woke up at 5:30 am because my cat was crying and instead of going back to sleep I started reading the book, finished at around 11:30, it was a great full immersion, loved every second of it. blink life. for life. 😭🩷

An Elisa take is always solid. Glad to hear you loved it.

Tom is skirting swiftly into the kind-of-harmless-but-kinda-weird-drunk-uncle era, and im here for it

I picked up on that as well. Can't remember them all now, but there were definitely quite a few. "Beige little boxes in a row" when describing Tom's old neighborhood in San Diego

I would be willing to get a Pop disaster tour part 2. My 2 favorite bands playing together again would be rad especially when I didn't get to see the first time they did it.