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What a great little book. I‘m a fan of both these artists and this exploration of what their lives and careers had in common is fascinating and illuminating. Recommend if you are also a fan of both.

Very good. Quick. But a great conversation

Outside out of my usual read but I was curious to see a different perspective on two very different artists.

I love Prince, and I like Dickens, so I picked this up in the store to read the first few pages. Hornby began by recalling a story that circulated when he was growing up that listed all the uncanny similarities between Abraham Lincoln and JFK. I yelped in the bookstore because I had been slightly obsessed with that story when I was a kid. Prince and Dickens did not share a long list of similarities, but both were gifted and prolific. Enchanting!

As Prince burst upon the music scene, Nick Hornby was smitten. Prince was a prolific creative genius & forged his own path in the industry. As a super fan of Prince, Hornby was struck by the similarities between him & another favorite creative, Dickens. Dickens wrote many of his best works under a stringent serial format that yielded thousands of words & hundreds of pages with little time for editing. Both had a particular genius. Nerdy fun 4+⭐️s.

A fun look into the similarities between the two…their lives, their creative genius, their work ethic, their faults, their early deaths. I learned new things about both!

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This was a fun, short listen comparing the lives and genius of Charles Dickens and Prince.

Hornby touches on their similar work ethic, their art, their women, and their early deaths.

It was entertaining.

These two were hyperactive, prolific, highly sexual, artists who went on to become their own genre. The connection stops there. The cover art shows that this connection is not as close as Hornby would like us to believe. The guitar & hat images do not reflect back on each other, blend or look like they belong in the same space. https://www.facebook.com/1082882538/posts/pfbid0RrCeJsSphwTV6QupTwjNK8AqjreknuJi...

This was an interesting little book comparing two artists I never would have thought about in the same sentence. Hornby looks at their childhoods, their career outputs, and their early deaths as well as at the genius and drivenness they both possessed. The most interesting part to me was how they both believed that they were being ripped off (from Hornby‘s description, they were) and took steps to stop it.

This evening‘s reading. What an interesting pairing!

A book only Nick Hornby would ever write and a book that only he could convince me to try. I consider myself a fan of both Dickens and Prince although hardly an expert on either. While this short audiobook did not bowl me over with never before recognized connections between the two I did learn a few things and was entertained as always by Hornby‘s musings. A light pick.

??? I wouldn't have put these two together!

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