From Dickens and Prince by Nick Hornby: “I would not be a reader without the excruciating, never-ending, no-football-on-TV, shops-closed boredom that drove me toward the local library and, later, bookshops- neither open on Sunday, of course. My younger sons, both born in the twenty-first century, have never found themselves in the kind of stupor that would cause them to look upon literature as an escape, and though this is a cause for regret, I am also happy for them. Part of me wishes that I hadn't been bored enough to spend half my life with my head stuck in a book.” I've read Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch when I was getting into soccer. I haven't read anything else, and honestly haven't seen any of the movies he wrote either. This book is fun. I'm not sure if he's importing Prince to talk about Dickens or whether he's importing Dickens to be able to talk about Prince. I listened to Prince's memoir last night. Prince lived 1958-2016. Born and died i...