Did there used to be comments under this post? I literally just went through comment by comment of your last eight writings trying to find your quote about how much more meaningful praise/feedback of your writing is than any amount of money you made being a lawyer.

PL: It's at the end of Nuggets, XI. Last few lines. Not in comments.

I just finished your funny, sweet and very human book in one sitting. Excellent work, CONGRATULATIONS!

PL: Thank you. Thank you very much. It's a word of mouth book, since the message challenges a lot of things people tend to take as religion. So if I might ask you a favor, if you know someone who'd like it, please tell him or her about it.

I'm happy to spread the gospel. I'm a Westlaw sales rep; most of my peers and I are doing what we're doing for the very reasons expressed in your great book.

PL: I drank on your company's tab a lot back in law school. You're good people.

Some of the women you had working there were naughty.

I just found your blog and am looking forward to reading your book. As a former Philly lawyer now residing in another state, I can relate, even from a cursory reading of your blog, to some of the stories. It doesn't take long, however, to figure out you're in, or were in, a big firm and probably went to, according to U.S. News, a top tier law school, or finished in that elite 5% of one of the "lesser" law schools. If you think you have it bad, trying gradating from one of those lesser law schools, and in the middle of the pack to boot. Personally, it wasn't a bad accomplishment since I barely graduated high school having discovered shrooms' and LSD in the 8th and 9th grade while listening to Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, not in my freshmen year of college. After getting that cherished associate position in an insurance defense firm, I found that law school was a breeze compared to all of the bullshit one has to deal with when you actually get to practice law. In short, I found my love of the sweet leaf again after a long layoff, which helped me get through mind numbing depositions and countless motion hearings. Nothing like being before a judge at 9 a.m. high as a motherfucker. I cannot agree more that the legal profession eats its own, especially in Philly, and it seems everyone is just waiting for you to fuck up something in order to vent their own frustrations with life on an inexperienced associate. If I could go back ten years knowing what I know now, law school is the last thing I would have signed up for, and would have opted for something, anything, else.

PL: You're quite incorrect about certain elements of my background.

As to Philly eating it's own, it's all that town has left to eat.

Got the book on Thursday, finished it by Sunday (actually would have been done on Friday, but had to make it last). Very Hunter S. Thompson like writing style - obviously you've read Fear and Loathing and probably Hell's Angels, Rum Diary, etc.

I see the same kind of stuff in the IT field. To me, office space is not a funny movie, it's more of a sad reality.

Very inspiring book, and I am headed in the same direction.

PL: I didn't hide from my influences. Thompson, O'Rourke, Carlin, Wolfe... I wore my layman's homage to what I thought were the greatest, truest voices I'd heard on my sleeve. Everything's derivative anyway, right?

Office Space explains in detail everything wrong with this country.