# What reading material is in your bathroom?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 6, 2001, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036 "2001-09-06T14:41:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/1 "2001-09-06T14:41:15Z")
Right now, sitting on the back of my commode till I get a magazine rack, is a hardback copy of Rick Riordan’s _The Devil Went Down to Austin_. I’ve also had _gasp_ various Straight Dope books :o and Mad Magazines.
So, what do you keep in the can for reading pleasure?
Robin
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### Author:  [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/2 "2001-09-06T14:47:40Z")
I’ve got two _Politically Correct Bedtime Stories_ books, about eighteen _Entertainment Weekly_ magazines, the third _Harry Potter_ book, two _National Geographics_ and a Pottery Barn catalog.
It’s a nonstop party in there.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/3 "2001-09-06T14:55:25Z")
“Caution, contents may be under pressure.”
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### Author:  [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/4 "2001-09-06T14:55:59Z")
I have the perfect little bookshelf in my bathroom, within arms reach of the toilet. It’s so cute I could scream. On it right now is **Questions For The Movie Answer Man by Roger Ebert** , **Return Of The Straight Dope by God** and **Pounding Nails In The Floor With My Forehead** and **Notes From The Underground** by Eric Bogosian.
very nice selection, if I do say so myself.
jarbaby
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### Author:  [@rundogrun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rundogrun)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/5 "2001-09-06T14:58:57Z")
I keep a rotating supply of **Calvin and Hobbes** and **Bloom County** books.
Heck…I spend more time in there reading than…well you know…
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### Author:  [@Briminator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briminator)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/6 "2001-09-06T14:59:11Z")
Dave Lettermans book of the top 10 list
Michael Jackson’s beers of the world
Bathroom reader #8
A bunch of FHM, Stuff & GQ Mags that my roommate trash picked
Other Stuff:
1 Gasmask
2 Large metal candy canes
Rubber duckie
Bart Simpson soap
Dogfish head beer shampoo
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### Author:  [@thermalribbon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thermalribbon)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/7 "2001-09-06T15:03:49Z")
In the room of bodily discharge and teeth flossing I have three of the most functional and dog-eared books ever:
\*\*The Simpsons Forever: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite family
The All Music Guide to Rock
An Incomplete Education\*\*
Three titles guaranteed to please, inform, & entertain.
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### Author:  [@demanton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/demanton)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/8 "2001-09-06T15:08:46Z")
Currently, **Meditating With Koans** by J.C. Cleary, **Tao Te Ching** by Lao Tsu, and **The Sound and the Fury** by William Faulkner.
Just trying to keep my cosmic bases covered.
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### Author:  [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/9 "2001-09-06T15:19:43Z")
Someday I’ll have a bathroom big enough to be the library, then y’all will be jealous!
:sigh:
Until that day, I have to make do with remembering to take something in with me. 😛
Currently reading: _God in Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics_ by CS Lewis.
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### Author:  [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/10 "2001-09-06T15:25:48Z")
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again - the bathroom is not a library and shouldn’t be used as such. How long can it take? Don’t you have more comfortable chairs? What about the smell? Would you visit the real library more if it smelled like a toilet?
Go in, take care of business, get out. THEN go to a comfortable chair, with good lighting no noxious odors, and read your hearts out.
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### Author:  [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/11 "2001-09-06T15:29:36Z")
What about when I’m taking a bubble bath plnnr? That’s one of my favorite places to read!
jarbaby
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### Author:  [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/12 "2001-09-06T15:30:23Z")
Lets see… I have
A Mars Music Catalogue
A Sam Ash Music Catalogue
A guide to Springfield
3 OLD Details magazines
a pottery barn catalogue (for fiancee’s reading pleasure)
Most recently though I have been enjoying the David Sedaris book, _Me talk pretty one day_ while doing #2.
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### Author:  [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/13 "2001-09-06T15:32:21Z")
I’ll grant you that exception, jarbaby. But otherwise - the appeal completely escapes me.
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### Author:  [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/14 "2001-09-06T15:37:46Z")
Does anyone else do crossword puzzles? I have the LA Times Sunday puzzle books and a pencil (not THAT confident) with an eraser (well…) and I’m happy.
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/15 "2001-09-06T15:40:48Z")
I keep a couple of ‘really fucked up shits’ of ESPN: The Magazine and currently the book \*Ghost Story[/] by Peter Straub.
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/16 "2001-09-06T15:42:18Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by plnnr \*
> \*\*I’ll grant you that exception, jarbaby. But otherwise - the appeal completely escapes me. \*\*
Consider this, plnnr. I’ve got irritable bowel syndrome and occasionally have to spend some time in my second-favorite room of the house. I’d rather enjoy the company of a good book than my own thoughts.
Robin
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### Author:  [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/17 "2001-09-06T15:43:19Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by plnnr \*
> \*\*I’ll grant you that exception, jarbaby. But otherwise - the appeal completely escapes me. \*\*
Well, you’ve got the extra time when your brain is otherwise unoccupied; why not take advantage of it. I mean, its not like we go in there for the specific purpose of reading, but if the time’s available…
And **jar** , preach the word, sistah! Mmmmm…bubble baths.
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### Author:  [@Sasquatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sasquatch)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/18 "2001-09-06T15:44:57Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by rundogrun \*
> **I keep a rotating supply of Calvin and Hobbes and Bloom County books.**
Holy crap\*, that’s exactly what I have in my bathroom.
\*Pun intended.
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### Author:  [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/19 "2001-09-06T15:57:16Z")
“…extra time…” How long is this process taking? Maybe its a question of diet. Oh, well. To each his own.
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### Author:  [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2001, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-reading-material-is-in-your-bathroom/80036/20 "2001-09-06T16:02:36Z")
All sorts of woodworking catalogs, woodworking magazines, old tool magazines, and wood collector journals…
…Because my husband is the one who leaves reading material in the bathrooms. However, I like to slip little things in conversation at dinner, stuff I picked up in the john. Like “Who’d have known a cabinet scraper could be so useful in preventing tearout when planing difficult grain, honey?”
We also have a funny book called “Outhouses by Famous Architects” but I’m tired of reading that one.
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