Originally Posted by BassoonPlatoon

I have no reason to, the first sentence didn't capture my interest. Newsflash: That's how reading and other entertainment work; if they capture your interest you continue, if not you move on and maybe come back to it later. Maybe if you were more engaging with other people we could discuss the book and I'd have a reason to continue. You must be an awful book club member.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.