I have to go make books. Sorry about that.
Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.
If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.
If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.
So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.
Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.