What are you reading at the moment?

Angels in my hair by Lorna Byrne:

For those you with an open mind, it is a little fragmented by tells the story of a woman who since childhood has and is visited by angels who bring her messages. A true story with many a proof of her claims!

Read it and try out her suggestions,if you have the courage to try a new approach.

Any one else read this yet? what are your thoughts?

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Sounds interesting, is it a novel or more like an autobiographic essay?

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Haven't read it. Am a bit sceptical so I don't know if I'll buy about the angels being true thingy... though it wouldn't put me off reading it.

I'm not really reading anything at the moment. I have a load of non-fiction stuff and comics at the side of my bed that I flick through every now and then.

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not a novel its a bit like an essay bit like a diary. She has strange style, almost like she is rushing to include everything and thoughts pop into her head and she has to tell the reader before she forgets.

Worth a read tho

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Well, if it's not fiction I don't really think I'd want to read it. That would be like a book trying to tell me Santa does exist, I'd spend the whole time going "Yeah, right". No offence meant of course, to each his own.

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Of course no offence, that's what its all about CHOICE and conversation.

I like to read a whole range of books to keep my brain active and keep me thinking about new ideas.

But we all have our likes and dislikes don't we?

Tell us waht you do like to read and if you have a fav author.

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I'm literally about 10 sentences in to "The Catcher In The Rye"... it's a classic that everyone goes on about so I thought I'd give it a go. To early to tell if it's any good or not. :)

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"Catcher" is great, but you have to be in the right frame of mind to appreciate it. I wasn't when I started it; besides, it was August, and the novel is set at Xmas time, this disappointed me a bit. But then I really started feeling for Holden, and I quite enjoyed the book. Anyway if you've just started reading a novel you shouldn't be posting here! ;)

Now I'm reading "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", the first novel by Agatha Christie, and I've just finished "Casino Royale", the first by Ian Fleming. My plan is to read eveything by both (not that difficult with the latter, might take a couple of years with the former).

My favourite novels: 1984, Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Of Mice and Men, A Clockwork Orange.

The author I've read the most so far is Stephen King: I've read all of his novels from the 70s and 80s (the rest are waiting on the shelf), for an essay on his translators that I wrote last year.

And I think that's it. :)

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I'm in between books at the moment - I finished “The Diving Bell And The Butterfly” last week.

What a fantastic book!

It's true story written by this guy who used to be the editor of Elle in France. Then one day, in his 40s he had a stroke and was completely paralysed - he had something called "locked-in syndrome" which meant he wasn't able to move or talk... the only part of him still under his control was his left eyelid.

Anyway he managed to dictate his memoirs by someone pointing to a card with letters on and then him blinking if he wanted to use that letter – painstakingly, he dictated an entire book this way.

It's a pretty amazing book - not just for the achievement of it but also the content - it's really moving and surprisingly funny in places too.

It was also one of those books that makes you feel grateful for what you've got and also a little bit guilty that we don't use our beautiful lives more...

He said that he used to complain about his everyday life - about his commute to work for example - and now he'd do anything to be jammed into a Metro carriage with hundreds of other people and not paralysed in a bed in a hospital ward day after day.

Anyway, don't want to be too morose, so I won't go on about it - but it's certainly a great read!

:thumbsup:

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I really enjoyed 1984... pretty prophetic stuff and really enjoyed Of Mice and Men too (apparently East Of Eden by Steinbeck is great too and I keep meaning to get around to reading it)... I do really also want to read Brave New World. Is it good? Heavy going?

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East of Eden is on my wishlist too.
BNW is definitely awesome. If you enjoyed 1984 (which is a lot heavier) I think you'll love it. Not as political, more scientific in a way, but really awe-inspiring.

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