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In my bathroom:

The Vice Guide to Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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I just love those Bronte sisters.

― Clellie, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

A collection of Hunter S. Thompson's letters & correspondence, can't remember the title. I got it for free when my ex-roommate was about to throw it out on moving day.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't keep books in my bathroom (water destroys books), but I take whatever I'm currently reading with me (the whole family knows where I am going, when I pick up my book). At the moment it's Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater from 1822/ 1856.

― SRH (Skrik), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

In my bathroom:
The Vice Guide to Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll

-- Vermont Girl (amylstende...), March 2nd, 2004.

Ha ha!!!!! Me too!!! Also a stack of Stuff magazines, The Urban Bizarre (fiction antho I'm in; it's signed by a bunch of the other authors), Les Maximes de Rochefoucauld, and some free copies of Reason magazine (somebody sent me a subscription anonymously; uh, thanks, whoever!).

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Shakespeare's quotes. I like to pee yelling "ALL HAIL TO YEA MACBETH THAT SHALL BE THANE OF GLAMIS"

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

old black book magazines and a used copy of "the big sleep"

― eleni (eleni), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't keep books in my bathroom (water destroys books),

That's why it's difficult and important to find an appropriate bathroom book, something both expendable and viable for short reading sessions. Um, like magazines.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Several collections of Calvin & Hobbes, The Onion's "Our Dumb Century" and "Finest News Reporting", a collection of Oscar Wilde quotations, and a handy book of Latin phrases.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

it's difficult and important to find an appropriate bathroom book, something [...] expendable

"I am in the smallest room of my house. Your book is before me. Soon it will be behind me." -- George Bernard Shaw

― SRH (Skrik), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't usually keep books in my bathroom -- it's mostly a huge stack of magazines, mostly New Yorkers -- but currently the Salon Guide to Contemporary Authors is in there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

(Hi Jayme! I still owe you a drink. I didn't forget. Everyone else please forgive ILE-style chum-wank, I just feel guilty when I owe people drinks.)

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Calvin & Hobbes and The Onion have both been bathroom standards in my house. Currently its the mighty "The Broons" and "Oor Wullie" (he's a'bodies buddy) in the bathroom. Also usually have a seperate book for the bath..Tariq G0ddard's "Dynamo" and Richard Gough's biography of "Captain Cook" at the moment

― winterland, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Dylan Dog

― yesim (yesim), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I, too, keep a copy of the Vice Guide to Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll on the back of the porcelain god =)

― Natalie (Penny Dreadful), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn, that's two people. I thought I was dead trendy and hip.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

A book of baseball quotations
Isaac Asimov's Book of Short Short SF Stories
couple Harper's and NYers

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Winterland, you are the person who buys those books? When I was in Borders in Glasgow at Christmas, my brother pointed those collections out to me and they seemed utterly impenetrable. Are they really any good, or is it some sort of twee Scots irony that makes you keep them there? Also, is that Richard Gough biography of Cook any good?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 4 March 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Widows by Ed McBain

― Margo B99, Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Hunting the Witch

― dr. b. (dr. b.), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

New York Time Literary Crossword Puzzles, yo!!!
I spend an hour on the can.

― McDowell Crook, Friday, 5 March 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Accentmonkey, my girlfriend's Scottish and first gave me the books every time I would say.."you're just making that up, surely" ( with respect to "help ma boab" or being "gas'a'peep").
At first they're a little inpeneterable but you soon get into the flow and they have lovely sound to them. When I was reading this morning Pa Broon was exclaming "Crivvens, this blowhard cannae half blether on..."
The Hough book is OK. He's great on the details of Cook's expeditions, much worse on the man himself and on putting his voyages into any kind of context. Having said that it does mean that the book rattles along nicely as a kind of adventure story and I'm happily re-reading it

― winterland, Friday, 5 March 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The Rough Guide to Rock, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth (which is currently my favorite music book ever), and a guitar catalog.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Religious Body" by Catherine Aird. I read paperback mysteries in the bath nightly.

― Rabin the Cat (Rabin the Cat), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

A PB copy of the "Complete Prose of Woody Allen."

― yesabibliophile (yesabibliophile), Saturday, 6 March 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, Winterland, I'm with you there. My brother's girlfriend really does say "Jings!", just like they used to in The Jocks and The Geordies when I was a kid. What does "gas'a'peep" mean?

I've got the Vanessa Whatsername biog of Cook. I'm not sure I'm looking foward to it, but it was very cheap.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Sunday, 7 March 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Right now? A Mad Magazine, a copy of Entertainment Weekly, and various LOTR stuff.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"Gas'a'peep" like "Help ma boab" and "black-affronted" is one of the maybe 400-500-odd Scottish ways of expressing genral indignation/disappointmentment. Very indignant/disappointed people, the scots.

― winterland, Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Right now? A Mad Magazine, a copy of Entertainment Weekly, and various LOTR stuff.

You mean like Frodo-shaped loofah sponges and Gollum bath salts?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 11 March 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't actually keep any actual physical books in or about the crapper as that's faintly stupid, but I do tend to indulge in 'Schott's Miscellany' when I'm there.

― writingstatic (writingstatic), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHAHAHA: No, m'Semi-Precious! Hildebrandt"s The Tolkien Years, TOLKIEN The Illustrated Encyclopedia. Also something called Finding God in Lord Of the Rings (?) that someone gave my son to read. And Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth. But I really like the idea of Frodo-shaped loofah sponges and Gollum bath salts!

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Friday, 12 March 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Some back issues of Harper's.
Three or four collections of Peanuts cartoons.
Schott's Original Miscellany.
The World's Most Dangerous Places.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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