Your new favorite book is on sale now

The publish date of The Immortals was supposed to be midnight November 14...so, today. Last night? Whatever. But the Amazonians got so excited that they actually released it a few hours early last night. Can you blame them?

But it's out there, and it's available for purchase and it's real and it's somewhat spectacular.

By now, you've been subject to an entire week's worth of columns with very pretentious excerpts. So you should probably just go buy the damned thing.

Yes, it's a real book. It looks like a real book, it feels like a real book and it's actual book length. It's not a pamphlet like it would be if it were something like say, "Ian Happ's Clutch Hits" or "Ryan Dempster's Best Jokes."

And as a result it has a real book price on it. The paperback is $18.99, which is a lot less than a lot of books, but it's also more than some actual good books.

For example at $18.99 it's 85 cents more than A Confederacy of Dunces. That's ludicrous to me. It's 99 cents more than The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. By no means should it cost more than two of my favorite books of all time.

Then again, it's only six dollars more than the literary classic Teammate: My Journey in Baseball and a World Series For The Ages by noted author David Ross.

Ross is in my book and I'm not in his. Of course, he doesn't blame me for nearly blowing game seven of the World Series by himself, but I do blame him for that same thing.

Anyway, the paperback version is very nice. I went with the matte finish so it feels nice in your hand, and you get a better grip, so when you are inevitably reading it while taking a shit there's like a 40 percent less chance that you'll drop it.

I keep you in mind when I'm making these decisions.

You are welcome.

There's also a hardcover version of the book. It seemed pretentious to take them up on the offer to make it, but I got a copy and it's really nice. I don't really expect anybody other than me to ever buy a hardcover copy, but it's there if you want it. It's not cheap. It's $25.99. Which, is more than $14 more expensive than The Plan: Epstein, Maddon, and the Audacious Blueprint for a Cubs Dynasty by David Kaplan.

But it's worth the extra cost, because you don't have to picture me writing mine while naked in a cryo tank screaming about how the Bears should have traded DJ Moore for an edge rusher.

I don't even have a cryo tank.

Well, not until you guys buy a few thousand copies of the book.

Is the book timely? Well, not really. We're coming up on the tenth anniversary of its culminating event. But then again, the Cubs show no desire to ever win another one, so, maybe...yes?

But don't worry. Now that the book's out I can stop boring you with promotion of it.

Because next week we get ready for the November 21 release of...

Good lord. It never stops!