What are you reading at the moment?

[swingaleg]

As for prescribed books at school we had Chaucer, Shakespeare and Dickens in the 1960s .............that was for O level

You'd probably have to go to Eton nowadays to get that combination!

[Dave]

I do think that the way Shakespeare and the like were taught when I was at school tended to put people off his work

When Gill and I first got together we started going to Stratford Upon Avon and seeing plays there. I must say, we enjoyed them all, and saw a lot of famous actors too. They weren't always done in traditional style, in fact quite the opposite. There were some amazing interpretations. The only one I didn't really enjoy was at The Other Place, the small theatre. This wasn't the fault of the play (well, not totally). Part of the problem was that we'd had a huge meal before the play, and were both struggling with terrible indigestion! The other part was that the players were all men and were "wearing" cowboy chaps with bare arses which was made even worse when they started striding about on catwalks into the audience, especially when one stood right next to me!

(Gill had no problem with the above!)

[Dave]

I don't read any more either

My eyesight is a bit iffy and it's a struggle ......... I'd have to read with a magnifying glass which is too much trouble

I'm OK on the laptop because I just zoom up the text size

I'm a little like this. Overall my eyesight isn't too bad, but I do have bad "floaters" which mean that physical book reading is less enjoyable than it used to be. I'm happier using a laptop, although that probably doesn't help the eyes

I used to read actual books a lot more before computers. I always had a Terry Pratchett on the go during break times at work, (out screening in a mobile unit with the NHS) but then we went digital, and had a PC installed, and I became addicted to computers!

Before this, when truck driving, I used to get audio books from the local library, usually thrillers - Dick Francis was a favourite

[Rachel]

I've just finished re-reading All Quiet On The Western Front. (Erich Maria Remarque). Even better on re-reading. So very moving, beautiful prose - I read in translation, not being able to read the original German- and the most anti-war novel of our times, I think, No wonder it was banned and burned by the Nazis.