What reading material is next to your toilet?

Pile of old newspapers, New York Times and FT's mainly but it gained copy of L'Equipe, this remains until it topples and some gets recycled, there are some lurking copies of Shape, Gourmet, The Economist and Make: in there I'm sure.
Pile of Journals, The American Journal of Sociology, Organisational Behaviour, Sociological Theory and something on Management
Misc books on academic writing
Rakesh Kahruna "From Higher Aims to Hired Hands"

We really need to get a peanuts annual or something.

César Vallejo - Poemas humanos.

I like to read poetry on the toilet since I'm not really there long enough to get in to prose.

mags: BUTT, Straight To Hell, Harpers, VF
books: US Army Survival Guide, Art of Seduction, some astrology book, something abt facial exercises

xpost - you should call it "toiletry"

An "alternative weekly" from a month ago.

xp. lol

An "alternative weekly" from a month ago.

― a Gioconda kinda dirty look (kenan), Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wink wink

mostly nyt sunday mag & recent new yorkers

basically if it has the words new york on it, it's going in the bathroom

game informer back issues lol @ me

Men's Health and Men's Fitness

am I the only one who never reads on the toilet? my toilet is a real dingy little box room separate from the bathroom too...

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haha just realized that back issues of "Womens Health" is also a true answer, but despite thinking it would be funny to just leave it like that for full crepe effect, they belong to my gf

Three-week old Albertson's circulars, Knitting Rules!, [/i]I am a Strange Loop[/i], and Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard (lols).

i don't read on the toilet, way too germophobic.

The Compass Rose, a book of short stories by Ursula K. LeGuin. I read it while I brush my teeth... but I don't really "get" some of the stories.

wait, BUTT on the toilet?

i don't read on the toilet, way too germophobic.

― sonderangerbot, Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:41 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

magazines dont give u germs

abbott do you perform wizardly incantations whilst pooping because lol

Today while pooping I read about how to astral travel.

xxp it would still ruin the magazine for me, only being able to read it in the bathroom plus cause stress when i got to throw it out

Fundamentals of Pooping, 3rd ed.
Issues in the Hermeneutics and Analytics of Modern Pooping
"To" versus "Fro": A History of the Philosophy of Wiping
Harder than it Looked: Heaton, Lewis, and the Origins of the Bristol Stool Scale
The Deuce that Dropped by Umberto Eco

i don't read on the toilet, way too germophobic.

― sonderangerbot, Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:41 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

What? I don't see how that makes sense. Also you are missing out. Reading on the toilet is one of life's great joys.

Best thing abt Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard is the blurb on the back, which I read out loud whenever I sit on the toilet:

"I can't think of a better, more qualified person to write a Handbook for Apprentice Wizards. Oberon is a Wizard"
– Raymond Buckland

Yes, oh YES! Man I loooove sitting on the loo. I can escape from the insanity of my kids. hah

"Misc books on academic writing"

Misread this as music books on academic writing. Which would be VERY intrigueing.

A few comics (my husband's)
Vogue book of Knitting (can't recall exact title though)
Book of knitting patterns (yes, mine again)
Book on photography

I don't read on the toilet anymore, I tend to play Scrabble on my iphone.

I was at someone's house recently who had The Pitchfork 500 book in their bathroom. So I sound myself flipping through the beginning of that reading some of your bios in the bathroom. It was kind of a weird moment.

The Complete Poems of Thomas Merton
The Secret Language of Birthdays <----astrology
a bunch of old ass Harpers
a couple old ass NYRBs

(01:53:26 AM) Erica: thomas merton is heavy bathroom reading
(01:53:26 AM) Erica: dude
(01:54:27 AM) chelives1986: i mean its his poems not his essays or w/e
(01:54:31 AM) chelives1986: but u know
(01:54:36 AM) chelives1986: one gets contemplative
(01:54:38 AM) chelives1986: if u will

ass Harpers

A Paul Raymond publication.

The Book of Lists, 1977 edition
100 Things You're Not Supposed to Know
Mad Magazine
Stairway to Hell

I was at someone's house recently who had The Pitchfork 500 book in their bathroom. So I sound myself flipping through the beginning of that reading some of your bios in the bathroom. It was kind of a weird moment.

I thinkI totally ruined my Spin Guide. No, not by shitting on it, but pageing through it every time I sat on the toilet.

Stevie it is Vogue Knitting and it was on the little table in my bathroom for a longtime. Zimmerman!

new yorkers usually. yoga journals, veg news that are my wife's. some copies of the wire. tbh none of them really stay in the bathroom, i'll bring them in

Couple of hundred back issues of the Guardian Weekend that I really should recycle but I'm kind of scared of them as they've started to compact to peat at the bottom.

Actually, considering it's about 3 years worth, at 50 issues a year, it's more like 150 Still, a lot, either way. Visiting Americans seem to love them.

I need to subscribe to Buddhadharma. Good bathroom reading.

Stevie it is Vogue Knitting and it was on the little table in my bathroom for a longtime. Zimmerman!

AWESOME! zimmerman scares the shit (hah!) out of me. i would expect you to like her, you clever insightful woman. i'm shit at figuring things out (-> proof: i once knit a hat for ophelia. recalculated and it turned out to big for me. hahahahahahahahahahahaha)

oh yeah which zimmerman do you have? i have two now. but the almanac one i have yet to use. uh the other one as well but it's queued in my ravelry list. heh.

I just have 'Knitting w/out Tears.' She wrote the (short) section on circular knitting in Vogue Knitting tho. Zimmerman is pretty out of control. I really like 'Knitting in Plain English' by Maggie Righetti, it is the best ever & if you haven't read it you really need to.

it has been on my list to buy for AGES. y'know, i'll just go and order it. :-)

What pattern book do you have ijn yr bathroom? Also, are you familiar with Stephanie Japel (she did the Fitted Knits & Glam Knits books +_ a lot of stuff on Knitty). I am making a raglan from Fitted Knitsright now and it KICKS ASS. I found out she lived here in Las Cruces bcz I ran into her at the LYS! lol knitting celebs.

I rly want to get Righetti's sweater book.

Last night at the used bookstore I found the Readers Digest book that has all 3 Harmony stitch dictionaries in one!!! For $6.50! Boners were had by me. brag brag

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Normally, my standard bathroom reading material is:

the current issues of the Nation, New Yorker and Lapham's Quarterly, along with whatever comic I'm reading at the time (currently The Sandman, I guess). Ed mentioned Peanuts in his original post and I can wholeheartedly recommend that - I've been getting the complete collection from the library and working my way through the entire series from the beginning.

Everything's been crazy the past few days, though, because I just moved to a new place and everything is in boxes, including all my magazines and books. So I've just been sitting there reading the back of the lotion, shampoo and soap bottles. I don't understand the people on this thread who never read in the bathroom.

I am not that interested in adult sweaters, so opting out of the ones you mentioned even though I know they are great.

WHAT? SIX DOLLARS? AND FIFTY CENTS? What the ef. i have volume one and probably paid more for that. i am getting the out of print walker patt books. there's one SPIDER patt. woha. i am interested in lace, even though i suxor at it. :-(

:O spider!

Several Onion books;
Life in Hell collection;
'America (The Book)';
'The Wit & Wisdom of Oscar Wilde';
Usually one of the gf's Ws or Vanity Fairs;
An old New Yorker or two, or three;
A book of Arab history that's been there, somehwat inexplicably, for years;

the psychotronic video guide
the psychotronic encyclopedia of film
and, uh, Elvis by Albert Goldman

An "alternative weekly" from a month ago.

― a Gioconda kinda dirty look (kenan), Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wink wink

― saddam hoosteen (s1ocki), Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Nothing like that. It's the Chicago Reader, and the quote marks are because it was bought by a chain a couple years ago. Not so alternative.

No printed reading material, I have my cell phone with me. In fact, I'm posting this while pooping! *waves*

(Both the hand and water movement)

keep on pushing Stan

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Pushin too hard/You're pushin too hard...

No really. A guy can get hemorrhoids. Relax.

Last month's Wired magazine
An issue of Cosmopolitan dated around Christmas that has Courtney Love on the cover
A small book about Jake and Dinos Chapman

The Onion's "Our Dumb World" (Free globe inside!)
Richard Meltzer's "L.A. is the Capital of Kansas"
Billboard Gold & Platinum Albums (abysmally out-of-date)

I read my wallpaper.

http://www.amazon.com/Time-Film-Guide-2007-Guides/dp/1904978606

clozapine warning labels and back issues of juggs

^ wd poop in your toilet

National Geographic
Mother Jones
Art in America
Bust
Real Simple
Domino

acid archives

(apparently the author was dismayed about how commonly his tome was consumed in the smallest room)

Alain Robbe-Grillet's Repetition and a copy of Toronto Star that is a couple of days old and some of the sections have been rolled up to swat garbage flies.

an old issue of rolling stone, an old issue of fast company, a life is hell collection, a this modern world collection, various catalogs from outdoor gear companies, some california hiking guides... all pretty good stuff.

my wife can't believe there are women who read on the toilet.

LOL. Why not??

i don't. i used to and it sounds like a good idea but pooping doesn't take long enough and my butt starts to hurt before i can read 2 pages.

You need to plan ahead.

yeah ... no reading material here: bathroom's too small + nothing I do in there during which it would be logistically possible to read takes that much time

ilxors be eatin' their fibre

I'm kinda with harbl here. It's not playtime, it's work time. That's why it's called doing your business. I do not luxuriate in my toilet time.

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I do not luxuriate in my toilet time.

Oh, I totally do. Sometimes I sort of just hang out to finish whatever it is I'm reading if it's particularly good. My bathroom is awesome and quiet and well . . . why the hell not.

I also read in the tub. Taking a bubble bath and reading while doing so is one of my favorite things to do.

Different matter entirely.

it's more enjoyable to read in an awesome bathroom than a non-awesome one.

I have a Calvino book (Mr Palomar)
Bill Bryson's Mother Tounge
A bunch of PC Authority mags
A bunch of home and cooking type mags
and a catalogue from Howards Storage World that I read to feel guilty that I am not as organised and neat as the tidy images within.

I try not to linger on the loo though, dont want to aggravate the H. Ugh.

OK why did I post that last part.

New Entertainment Weekly every week! Some local newspaper for my neighborhood and all 1000 pages of

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When I visit a stranger's house and find their bathroom free of reading material, I wonder if I should be there.

In my bathroom, there is the Golden Bough, being full of delicious, context-free pages with quotes like

"The danger, however, is not less real because it is imaginary; imagination acts upon man as really as does gravitation, and may kill him as certainly as a dose of prussic acid."

I often consider this quote, while expelling uric acid, that fear is real, even if you only imagine you're afraid.

old issues of The Face

today added a guide to hong kong cinema that i bought for $1

I never read on the toilet, and frankly find it weird that people do. I just go in there, get my shit done, and then leave...

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I doubt that MES reads on the toilet, but he probably says "-ah" afterwards...

I know I do.

insert "total first pint refreshment" gag

it's not that i don't think toilet time is playtime, i think reading is a good idea, but it just never works for me in practice so i don't do it. same with reading in the bathtub. i always think it would be fun but it ends up that i just want to get out.

toilet time is playtime

A phrase guaranteed to make people run for the hills.

reading in the bathtub

I don't understand why people do this either - the logistics of it seem to be that the water will get cold before you've read very much, plus the issue of soggy pages.

haha the reading in the tub c/d is definitely deserves its own thread!

and yeah totally appealing but ultimately kinda annoying, generally

Considering that there are books and magazines and reading material draped across almost every other horizontal surface in my flat, it would actually be intensely odd if there were no reading material at all in the loo.

it's not even like I plan to have reading material accumulated anywhere, it's just that I tend to wander from room to room with it, and it settles where I tend to read it most. The spot on the table where I eat breakfast. The foot of my bed. The little windowledge next to the loo.

The only time I ever made a concerted effort to keep a toilet reading collection was my apartment in NYC - I kept my collection of rock biographies in there. But I noticed that people started taking longer and longer to come out, and when they emerged, they would have suddenly sprouted new knowledge and want to talk about, say, Mick Jagger's schoolboy experiments with bisexuality, and, erm, that got commented on.

my wife can't believe there are women who read on the toilet.

CRazy woman.

Our bathroom is too small to store reading material in it, so I usually just carry in whatever I happen to be reading at the time if I think I'm going to be in there for awhile.

same with reading in the bathtub. i always think it would be fun but it ends up that i just want to get out.

^^me, too

harpers
nat geographic
months old crossword (incomplete)
consumer reports (dad keeps giving gift subscriptions to)
one of those kid's game/puzzle books where you use the included "magic" orange pen to reveal the answers
old musician's friend catalogue

Not these days, but an old favorite: Calvino's Invisible Cities

Interesting choice! I love Invisible Cities but wouldn't necessarily choose it as bathroom reading. ILXors be getting deep while on the john.

lol it wasn't so much toilet snobbery as it was that each chapter (or city description) is, at most, a few pages & most of them are infinitely re-readable, so perfect, really (IMO)