The "Silence of the Lambs" movie was much better than the book. The book had too many distracting subplots that the movie chopped out. For example, Clarice's boss at the FBI, played by Scott Glen, had a wife dying of cancer while Clarice pursued Buffalo Bill. It added nothing to the story.

But, yeah, I've read that the average American reads one book per year. So for someone like me who reads about a hundred there are 99 people who don't read books at all.

This is pretty obvious on social networks, and on signs at Trump rallies.

I saw a picture from a rally on the other side; one sign read

"Look at all the correctly-spelled signs." I howled.