Marley and Me
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
USA Today and the Wall Street Journal
Two great media hits for Marley & Me...
On the front page of the Life section in today's USA Today, staff writer Carol Memmott wrote about the popularity of the book. Her opening paragraph: "There's a reason that tissue packets are sometimes handed out at author John Grogan's book signings. His Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog (William Morrow, $21.95) may very well be the feel-good book of the year. It's definitely the dog lover's book of the year."
She says "word of mouth and glowing reviews" has propelled Marley & Me into its 15th printing, with 550,000 copies in print. The story appeared beneath the headline, "Marley & Me: Bad dog makes good reading." And it ran with a photo of me getting attacked by the Phantom Frencher herself, Gracie the new Lab. Gracie has a tongue like a heat-seeking missile and when she spots an open mouth she makes her move. The photographer snapped the shutter just as she was smashing her mouth into mine. It's a pretty funny shot.
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And last Friday, the Wall Street Journal ran a positive review in which writer Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg called Marley & Me "a riotous memoir," and added: "Mr. Grogan may have questionable skills as a dog owner -- he finds himself completely overmastered by Marley's superior will -- but he sure knows how to write, employing a chatty style that brings to mind that of fellow book-writing newspaper columnist Mitch Albom."
posted by John Grogan at 8:20 PM
 
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I just finished your book after starting it 2 days ago. I could not put it down! Thank you for giving us all a piece of Mr. Marley. I am currently owned by 4 chows and 1 mutt. Thank you also for summing up the feelings and emotions that most of us have had for our departed furry friends. I feel as I was with you and your family in your journey with Marley. Beatiful book and amazing memorial!
I recently received the book as an early Christmas present and just cannot put it down. I swear you are talking about my big, bumbling yellow lab, Max. Every spare moment I will read more and hopefully be finished by Christmas. Thank you for the amazing book. I am truly enjoying it.
We lost our sweet angel boy Nov. 8 this year. His name was MacKinley (Schmack Daddy for short) and he was almost 12. Almost. We'd spent the summer and fall photo blogging the latest Jean Claude Killy sweater or Marine Corps coat keeping his once 100 lb manly man frame (now wizened with heart failure and Cushings) warm enough to sleep through the air conditioned night.
He could fly the space shuttle and God, I miss him.
And then we found your book. It's been therapeutic and cathartic and laugh out loud hilarious.
Thanks. We needed that.
I absolutely loved your book! It made me laugh and cry. We lost our wonderful, beloved dog, Gizmo, a year ago. He was with us for 14 of the greatest years of my life. He was my buddy and we were nearly inseperable. To this very day, I can't talk about him without crying and missing him so much my heart actually aches. Thank you a thousand times over for putting into words what so many of us dog owners feel deep down inside. I will recommend "Marley and Me" to everyone I know!