The answer would be “but” since it contrasts his motivation with competing with others for a high score.
Hopefully this helped.
Reading a work of literature is often related to one's personal beliefs and opinions because when you read something you often connect what you read with what you know and this affects your beliefs and opinions about the book but also about general things, as well as vice versa. Once you read a book, this further increases and changes your stance on certain things. It therefore changes your opinions and beliefs.
<span> I spit it out in the trash.</span>
