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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I won't speak for everybody, but there's stuff I watch on television where I am waaaaaay more mentally engaged than I am when reading certain books.
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Well, I'm not saying that all books are deep and intellectually challenging.
While what you say is true, with a movie you're dragged along willy-nilly. If you're thinking and analyzing too much you're going to miss what's going on on the screen. With a book you can slow down or even stop reading.
There's rarely a movie (that's not a comedy) where I can't invariably see places where it had flaws in the logic, but I don't really think about them until after the movie is over. While watching it I'm too busy paying attention to do that sort of analysis.
And with a book you have to imagine what things look like or how they sound whereas with a movie it's all done for you. To me that's a big part of books being a less passive activity.