/lit/ - Literature

how the fuck people read more than a hundred pages in one fucking sitting, granted it's not a todler coloring book with one sentence per page, but something with more meat on its bones? just the fucking physical movement of the eye balls would become tiresome

do they just mindlessly hover over the words and never once stop to reread a passage or just plain think about what they just read? is this what they mean by "speed reading"

well then, in that case i can speed read the whole fucking bible in a day, never mind that i would be better off reading the wikipedia article, since the amount of information retained would be the same in each case

fucking lol

for non native english speaking anons
what's the best book in your language, in your opinion
desu english speakers can participate too lol

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I suppose that the difference between the two is that no longer doing things out of fear requires you to exercise your free will. First you have to break the habit of defaulting to the non-virtuous action, which denies you any choice. And then, you have to make a new habit of asking yourself, "what would the virtuous action be?"

You're no longer acting mechanically, you're asking yourself to at the very least, consider not to do something that isn't virtuous. And you should be doing it not because you fear what God may do to you if you don't, but because you were given the ability to recognize what is immoral and what isn't. I suppose that in most cases, the "immoral" choice will bring you immediate material benefit; but the "moral" choice will let your conscience rest easy at night.