I'm about to spend a few days by the beach and my doctor warned me today not to swim for a couple of days. What book would you recommend for me to read while I watch Mrs Didge doing her dolphin imitation in the surf?
Hello Virginia. The Power of Now is about living in the moment. Neither the past nor the future exist. In the past is a memory and in it lie your regrets and other events and circumstances that helped make you what you are now but you are not necessarily bound by that. In the future lie your hopes and fears which may or may not become realities. The reader in encouraged step away from the normal chatter that goes on in your mind and watch, or police the ideas that occur there. It helped me understand the value of meditation and clearing my mind. I wish I'd read this book when I was in college. My ability to concentrate on lectures and conversations would have been much improved as it is now. The author then goes off into some new age ideas like becoming "I am" by focusing on the present. He lost me at that point but the rest of the book was very valuable to me.
CallMeIshmael, your impressions are valuable and appreciated. I had encountered those principles a decade or two before Tolle came out, so have not read his books as such...and it actually felt comforting to read your excellent impressions, affirming my experience too. Thank you.
Incompetence - Article 13199 of the Pan-European Constitution "No person shall be prejudiced from employment in any capacity, at any level, by reason of age, race, creed or incompitence." In a united Europe of the near future, incompetence is not an option, it's compulsory. You can't be fired for being bad at your job. But the rules don't apply to the psychopath who's leaving a trail of corpses across the continent. He's very competent indeed. And so, down these mean, incredibly badly sign-posted streets, one detective must thread his way through a maze of blind nightclub bouncers, octogenarian male bunny girls and airline pilots with vertigo. In search of a killer. In search of the truth. In search of a decent plumber.
A Fraction Of The Whole - From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry and how the three of them upset - mostly unintentionally - an entire continent. Incorporating death, parenting (good and bad kinds), one labyrinth, first love, a handbook for criminals, a scheme to make everyone rich and an explosive suggestion box, a hilarious, heartbreaking story of families, and how to survive them.
Both are of course are comedies. I took these notes off the back of my books. I like Fraction of a Whole because it's humour is ironic, dark and very dry. Toltz is an Aussie.
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I love irony. Incompetence is a quick read, written by the same chap who wrote Red Dwarf. It's good to see you Virginia :)
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Benedict Arnold 