Roger Ebert once said that if nothing has happened by the end of the first reel, nothing is going to happen. I had to pause about 40% of the way through to pursue my thesis, but after David grows into a young man, the travails of his youth are behind him. At the point where I stopped, partly out of necessity and partly for lack of interest, absolutely nothing was happening. Nothing had happened for several chapters. Given this trend, I began to believe that nothing would happen. I will probably pick this up again once I finish school. I am curious to see what becomes of the relationship between David and Uria Heep.