Adams, Cecil. The Straight Dope. New York: Ballantine Books, 1984.
A veritable bargain at $10.95! ($14.95 in Canada)
Hustler
Swank
Cheri
One Playboy (for the grandpa types)
The Holly Bible.
A collection of nonsense from Ogden Nash has been on the bathroom window sill since we moved into our house. I look at it every now and again but I’m more a newspaper man when it comes to reading in the jacks.
New Scientist (Old ones)
The Onion - Our Dumb Century.
I’m right there with ya, porcupine. I’ve never understood it either.
I get in. I get out. Nobody gets hurt.
If I wanted to read, I’d lay on the couch.
I usually co-opt the Reader’s Digest and have a book or two.
It drives Welbywife nuts, because she’s not a bathroom reader and thinks the habit is weird.
I have political stuff, whether its books, leaflets or articles I’ve printed out. See, this way I’m not bothering my roomies by telling them to read it - but I know that if its there, they will.
Pretty clever if I do say so myself.
I always have the latest Austin Chronicle a hand, plus a book. Annals of the Former World is my current selection.
at hand, at hand…
geez…I’m codin’ fer crap today…
anything but porn. There’s nothing more disgusting than hitting the bowl or the bottom of the seat w/ your throbbing erection.
I don’t understand people who don’t read in the bathroom. Do you just stare at the wall?
There’s nothing to read in my bathroom either, but there isn’t really room for anything anyway.
Living by yourself gives you the opportunity to do whatever you want, including leaving the bathroom door open. The cats like to hop on the sink and beg me for a drink out of the faucet.
I’m all business in the bathroom. I spend as little timein there as possible. No time for reading! There’s work to do! 
Back issues of Saveur magazine. I find it humorous to be reading about food while, um, struggling with the inevitable aftermath of eating.
No, but I’m not usually in there for more than a few minutes - I like to get in and out as soon as possible. It’s not exactly the most comforable chair in the place. If I’m ill I’m in there longer, but I really don’t want to read when my bowels are cramping up. For those that read in the bathroom, what’s the deal? Do you go in there before you really need to, stay in longer than you really have to, are you inefficient poopers, are you waiting for … other things … like Cervaise mentions above? Are you hiding from your families? Do you prefer reading in the bathroom? I grew up in family of 7 with 1 bathroom, so hanging out in the bathroom was not really encouraged. But somehow my father’s “morning constitutional” has endured, which includes a crossword puzzle and sometimes a cup of coffe. I don’t understand why anyone would want to drink a cup of coffee where they’re taking a dump. My father’s also been known to put onion cream cheese on a blueberry bagel, so there’s no accounting for his taste buds. 
** ralph124c**, if you’d prefer I start another thread on this, just let me know.
how about a minor hijack of this thread–we seem to be divided into 2 groups-- the “readers” and the “no-readers”. Personally, I 'm all with Porcupine–there are much more comfortable places in my house where I can have a good read. And, if I want to have a good sh-t, then I head to the bathroom–but I leave my book on the couch.
so my question is: how long do you all spend in the “reading room”? And, of all the urges that cause you to go there, is the need to read one of them? And ,yes,GMRyujin-in answer to your worry-yes, I do “stare at the walls”–but only for about 90 seconds or so.It ain’t so tough.
12 short stories, two novels, the straight dope, Sci Fi wire, CNN, Wired, solitaire, tetris, blockout…
…I’ve got an Ipaq! I could watch movies in there too, but that might gimmie away.
I’m a quick pooper. Total time spent is less than 2 minutes. I respect my bathrooms for showers, shaving and number one and two, but then I’m outta there. I don’t like smelling my crap.:eek:
Ten to thirty minutes, generally. When my legs start going to sleep, that’s a pretty good signal.
You’re not a hard-core bathroom reader until you seriously consider getting broadband by the can.
I am definitly in the camp of the bathroom readers here. However, my roommate hates the habit, so I’ve heard both sides.
Anyways, in our bathroom we have:
The Straight Dope
More of the Straight Dope
Return of the Straight Dope
The Staight Dope Tells All
Triumph of the Straight Dope
So there!
Allure-updated through last 6 months
Vanity Fair
Bathroom Reader
Victorias Secret
SO is upset to have realized knows more now about makeup and fashion than he ever cared to waste brain cells on