What books do you have in the bathroom

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me :

Sexuailty in Western Art
A book on Louis Kahn
3 embarrassing "funny" books
The Joy of Gay Sex
And you
i think this tells alot about a person.

― anthony, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't have a suitable receptacle for books in my bathroom, so having them in there would mean just having them sit by the loo, where they'd end up piss stained and vile. This happened to a friend of mine. I think he had book of Monty Python scripts and a copy of Jane Eyre.

― Nick, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I keep books in shelves, nick, not receptacles. Ans currently equals = Gary Giddins' (grate) Bing Crosby biog, Raging Bulls and Easy Riders, Communion by Whitley Streiber, the Oxford Book of Food, Teach Yrself Chinese, and England's Dreaming by J.Savage.

― mark s, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Synthesiser catalogues, and copies of "Sound on Sound" magazine, which I read in the bath.

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― Norman Fay, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't have any books, I have a cd player I put in there though. At the moment Marvin Gaye is in it, it's good shower music.

― Ronan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Various *funny* books e.g Colemanballs,Viz big thick one etc. Various football books e.g Simon Inglis -football grounds of Great Britain (2nd and 3rd edition), some footie fanzines and programmes (St johnstone v Berwick Rangers 1990 0-0). Some other odds and sods which don't belong anywhere else - Ivor Cutler, John Hegley, Kenneth Tynan, the book of sexual lists etc.

― Billy Dods, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We have (courtesy of Pete) a stupid Bathroom Reader full of fascinating facts and little stories. Our flatmate clearly hates it and keeps putting it next to the shower so it gets ruined. I hate it too as it has a story about how Milky Ways were originally going to be called Emma bars but they over whipped the fluffy inside bit and decided to call them Fat Emma bars instead. I may have to accidentally drop it in the bath at some point. I would rather read the back of a conditioner bottle any day.

― Emma, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i used to keep all my bibles + books on serial killers in a bookcase in our old flat - here, nothing. but we keep the door open when we shit so we can talk anyway..unless it gets too stinky.

― Geoff, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No reading material in bathroom, but if I feel the call while reading something I'll usually bring it along. This can sometimes put a new perspective on historical biographies of unpleasant characters.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In the bathroom I have a CD player. *NSync is currently in the playah. In the toilet I have several magazines and the Oxford Dictionary. My plan was to learn a new word each day. Sadly I am so stupid, I sit on the toilet for about three hours before I remember "doyen." Anyone know what it means? I forgot. Off to the loo I am. Tata. ;-)

― nathalie, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A trivia encyclopedia from the early Eighties and a Kenneth Williams autobiography.

― Arthur, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nothing. I often have a problem with hogging the bathroom when I take in a book and don't want to put it down and get in the shower, though.

― maria, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eight years pass...

The GOP Hater's Handbook
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

― if i recoil correctly (crüt), Saturday, 5 June 2010 04:48 (fifteen years ago)

Great Indie Discography
Magazines ---------
Prevention
Entertainment Weekly
Real Simple

― svend, Saturday, 5 June 2010 04:56 (fifteen years ago)

I finished Luis Bunuel's autobiography almost entirely in the bathroom recently. Lately I've been thumbing through Pauline Kael's For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies. Was reading Knut Hamsun's Hunger for a bit, but quickly realized it's not a good "pick up and read two or three pages" book.

― circa1916, Saturday, 5 June 2010 05:55 (fifteen years ago)

Schott's Original Miscellany
Friday Night Lights- Buzz Bissinger
America At the Crossroads - Frances Fukuyama

Mr Veg does a lot of 'serious' bathroom reading...the Schotts is my contribution.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 5 June 2010 06:06 (fifteen years ago)

I did have a Grimm's fairytales, and Calvino's Mr Palomar in the bathroom for a while (I must have been reading them anyway or somethign) but now tis just a copy of MOJO and a cooking magazine.

― property-disrespecting Moroccan handjob (Trayce), Saturday, 5 June 2010 06:43 (fifteen years ago)

comic book -
Chili (1972 - Marvel's answer to Archie comics but Chili is just very very rude)

magazines -
Oxford American
National Geographic

― Crab Calloway (Nijoli), Saturday, 5 June 2010 14:02 (fifteen years ago)

lol @ Chili

― if i recoil correctly (crüt), Saturday, 5 June 2010 14:51 (fifteen years ago)

Rolling Stone Record Guide (blue cover)
Simpsons episode-by-episode guide (first 6 seasons)
Mojo guide to 1,000 essential LPs
a bunch of running magazines

― henry s, Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:00 (fifteen years ago)

six months pass...

- dictionary of american slang
- jm & mj cohen's book of modern quotations. i kinda want to get a general book of quotations, too, because then you get the greeks and all of those guys.

bathroom reading of the gods:
- any studs terkel (i have will the circle be unbroken, at the moment, which is great although can send you back into the house kind of harrowed)
- unwieldier calvin & hobbes editions

― dick roach (schlump), Monday, 6 December 2010 14:27 (fourteen years ago)

Revolution In The Head
John Powell - How Music Works
Hunter S Thompson - The Great Shark Hunt

Weird choices I guess...

― What are you doing here? (dog latin), Monday, 6 December 2010 14:35 (fourteen years ago)

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― Mark G, Monday, 6 December 2010 15:04 (fourteen years ago)

I have the appropriately named "Sinister Resonance" by David Toop as my bathroom reading atm.

― O Permaban (NickB), Monday, 6 December 2010 15:06 (fourteen years ago)

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