# What books and reading materials are in your bathroom right now? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 8, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053 "2004-04-08T23:20:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/21 "2004-04-09T05:17:09Z")
[ul] [li]Calvin and Hobbes _Yukon Ho!_[/li][li]March 28, 2004 St. Edna Parish bulletin[/li][li]2004 _Consumer Reports_ Buying Guide[/li][li]3 issues _Reader’s Digest_[/li][li]1 issue _Entertainment Weekly_[/li][li]1 issue _Electronic Gaming Monthly_[/li][li]1 issue _Wired_[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/22 "2004-04-09T05:30:21Z")
Since this is basically a poll, I’ll move it to [**In My Humble Opinion**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=12) for you. **Cajun Man** for the SDMB ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/23 "2004-04-09T05:33:24Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > If I’m really fascinated with what I’m reading, I might carry it to the bathroom with me, but I hope I never, EVER, take so long in the bathroom that I need to stock reading material. > > (40 and “going” strong) I say never, ever give up the advantage of that much privacy. One can get a world-class education in the loo. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Star\_Was](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Star\_Was](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Star_Was)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/24 "2004-04-09T06:20:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Bust > Bitch Are these porn magazines? I have various copies of law school brochures. My favorite is USC. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/25 "2004-04-09T06:36:37Z")
1000 Stupid Jokes. The child reads them whilst (oops I just annoyed someone with a pit thread) pooing. I think we have covered about 998, most of them at least twice. Just poo and get off! Stop with the jokes. Stop reading them to me! I am no longer amused at jokes read from the loo. There are more comfy places to read and jokes don’t count anyway. Stop pooing and go read something sensible(I think I just ranted at my child). ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/26 "2004-04-09T07:06:58Z")
An Edgar Allen Poe anthology (go figure) and the latest Time magazine. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/27 "2004-04-09T07:27:32Z")
About eight “Bathroom Readers” The “Encyclopedia of Hoaxes.” Oliver Sacks’ _Awakenings._ ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/28 "2004-04-09T07:41:45Z")
> [@Star Was](#): > > Are these porn magazines? > I have various copies of law school brochures. My favorite is USC. Since HeartOnMySleeve hasn’t answered: I don’t know about Bust, but Bitch is a sort of GenX feminist magazine. It’s pretty cool, I like it. Harper’s (2 issues) Atlantic Monthly Rain Taxi Review of Books (3) American Woodworker and Handyman (girlfriend’s 😛 ) Boondocks collection Artist’s Magazine and (More) George W. Bushisms Some of them are very dusty. I know what I’m doing tomorrow… So, StarWas, are you going, or do you just like to read the brochures? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Star\_Was](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Star\_Was](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Star_Was)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/29 "2004-04-09T07:49:42Z")
> [@](#): > > So, StarWas, are you going, or do you just like to read the brochures? I am starting at Michigan is the summer. But I do like to read the brochures. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/30 "2004-04-09T08:09:29Z")
> [@Star Was](#): > > I am starting at Michigan is the summer. But I do like to read the brochures. Best of luck 🙂 . It would be great if you graduated and passed the bar exam and were a partner in a huge law firm, or hell, had a seat on the bench, _but still kept reading the brochures…_ ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/31 "2004-04-09T10:51:51Z")
The only things in the bathroom right now: _Foucault’s Pendulum_, by Umberto Eco, and a Home Decorator’s catalog. However, I just got done setting up some shelves in a cubby space right across from the bathroom door (studio apartment - maximize space!), so theoretically I could grab anything from my paperback collection on the way in. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sgt.Pepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Sgt.Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sgt.Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/32 "2004-04-09T12:14:09Z")
Whoa, this is appropriate, I just got out. Anyway, I usually bring something in with me, but for two mornings my book hasn’t been around so I went in there with nothing. I figured that it’s been awhile since I read the shampoo bottles, so they may have changed. When I got there I found my nephew had a bunch of his books in there, so now I’m in the middle of one of his stories. **Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Women** Understand that it’s a reading done out of necessity. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/33 "2004-04-09T12:24:16Z")
In the thread about what reading material you have in the bathroom several people mentioned shampoo bottles. I’m sure most of us know that bathroom can mean different things in different English but it got me thinking. At your house are the bathroom and toilet seprate rooms? They are at mine and 90% (IMHO) of the houses here. What is the norm where you are? ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/34 "2004-04-09T12:25:49Z")
Well that was going to be a new thread but since all the bathroom people are here anyway… ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/35 "2004-04-09T12:57:47Z")
Here in the U.S., the toilet is in the bathroom. (Hence the oft-used comic scene of some poor guy or kid dying to relieve themselves while a woman of the house takes her sweet time in the shower.) If there’s a separate room with just a toilet and sink, it’s referred to as a 1/2 bath. I noticed the toilet/bathroom split in Australia, but it wasn’t uniform. The apartment I rented in Adelaide, for example, had toilet, bath AND washer/dryer all in the same room. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/36 "2004-04-09T13:44:11Z")
**Premiere** the movie magazine **Reader’s Digest** of course and **Asimov’s Digest** which has a delightful mix of short poems to longish novellas, perfect bathroom reading. Sigh…not the most intellectual grouping, but at least they’re all current issues, that counts for something, right? **calm kiwi** I get having a loo with just a sink and toilet, but the thought of a room with a tub and/or shower but without a toilet boggles my mind. Am I misunderstanding or something? ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/37 "2004-04-09T13:51:55Z")
> [@Queen Tonya](#): > > **Premiere** the movie magazine > **Reader’s Digest** of course and > **Asimov’s Digest** which has a delightful mix of short poems to longish novellas, perfect bathroom reading. > > Sigh…not the most intellectual grouping, but at least they’re all current issues, that counts for something, right? > > **calm kiwi** I get having a loo with just a sink and toilet, but the thought of a room with a tub and/or shower but without a toilet boggles my mind. Am I misunderstanding or something? Nope you are not misunderstanding, though we might be weird. Most houses have a room with just a loo (not even a sink as well often) and a room with shower, bath and sink. Hey maybe that is why we don’t ask for the bathroom…we don’t want to piddle in your bath 😉 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/38 "2004-04-09T15:31:21Z")
\*Digging In and Pigging Out \* by Roger Welsch _5 Acres and Independence_ Several issues of _Mother Earth News_ \*Dirge \* by Alan Dean Foster Bathroom #2 \*Hogfather \* by Terry Pratchett \*Radio Waves \* by Jim Ladd The latest issue of _Buffy_ magazine Can you tell which bathroom I use, and which is used by my wife? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/39 "2004-04-09T15:44:28Z")
3 mostly done copies of _Games_ magazine. One almost complete book of British Logic Puzzles, which are easier than American ones for some strange reason. One book of picture by number puzzles. I also bring stuff in. How could anyone not read on the pot? When I moved to Africa when I was 10, I read the entire _Rise and Fall of the Third Reich_ while becoming adjusted to the, ahem, climate. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053/40 "2004-04-09T16:15:37Z")
The Society for News Design’s “The Best of Newspaper Design,” Vol. 24 More of a coffee table book, really, but I think I’ll wipe it down with Lysol before I set it back on the coffee table… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-books-and-reading-materials-are-in-your-bathroom-right-now/239053.md?page=3)