I have the first two straight dope books and an assortment of Maxim magazines.
I rotate my stock regularly. (My reading material, smartass!)
Uhhh… let’s see.
A how-to book on Masonry and Concrete
A book on electrical codes
A couple different car restoration magazines
At least two issues of the Journal of Counseling and Development
Very dog-eared copies of The Prince and The Art of War
Oh, and kayT… on Tuesdays I carry in the TV Guide to do their crossword.
-BK
Right now I only have Our Dumb Century from The Onion guys. I also keep an issue or two of Chess Life in there, usually.
Usually it’s something along the lines of Calvin & Hobbes, Bloom County, Far Side, Dilbert, Foxtrot etc. along with a factoid-type book. Straight Dope (natch), True Facts, etc.
The books are there cause the articles are nice & short and they’re easier to read while brushing my teeth than an oversized comix collection.
At the moment, the newest issue of New Scientist, a two-week-old issue of KK (Norwegian women’s magazine), one of the books from Jan Guillou’s Crusader trilogy, Garfield Sits Around The House, and the pride of the collection, Green Eggs and Ham.
Time to clear out the bathroom? Mmmmmyeah. Just maybe.
I’m somewhat surprised and disappointed that nobody has mentioned the series of Uncle Johns Bathroom Readers. For those not familiar, this is a series of books specifically written for reading while on the throne. We have about six of them, as well as When do Fish Sleep and Other Imponderables, and a book of quotes (I can’t think of the title right now, something about the 2011 best quotes of all time. I’m also happy to report that my kids are picking up the habit of bathroom reading as well, without any encouragement from me!
Uh, I’ve got some guy’s journal with a bunch of words and pictures and stuff.
Private Spivey
The Onion: Finest Newsreporting Volume 1. The Onion books or the newspaper itself (if you can get it) make excellent bathroom reading, since it is easy to finish each story fairly quickly.
Earl Emerson’s The Million Dollar Tattoo
Neal Stephenson’s Zodiac, an Eco-Thriller
Wiley’s Dead Lawyers and other pleasant thoughts (a Non Sequitor book)
Right now, on the back of my toilet I’ve gotThe Simpsons Forever, the newest issue of Scientific American, a Spanish vocabulary book, and an old Ripley’s Believe It or Not paperback.
Right now it’s Everything You Pretend to Know About Food (And Are Afraid Someone Will Ask) by Nancy Rommelmann
Cool! As I noted in this thread, it sure scared the shit out of me!
This post reminds me of the “Seinfeld” ep where George went to the bookstore and took an architecture (or was it some kind of art?) book into the bathroom. When he tried putting it back on the shelf, the store personnel saw that he had just come out of the bathroom, and they made him buy it. Then, of course, all attempts at him returning the book or even donating the book to the homeless were thwarted because of where he had read it.
Okay, that was funny. I’m still cracking up.
Makes me wonder if those of us who read in the bathroom might make a visit to the library if we were constipated… you know, to stimulate a conditioned response of sorts. Uh, not like I’ve ever done that, of course. I mean, I go to the library to check out books. Yeah, that’s it…
(My bathroom reading material is mostly catalogues and old “Cat Fancy” magazines.)
In my bathroom is the universally admired tome:
The Big Damn Book of Sheer Manliness
Yeah, well plnnr is obviosly a guy, and the rest of you are all females!
MEN GET THEIR GREATEST THOUGHTS ON THE JOHN!
Take for instance “The Thinker” you don’t think that guy is neked for no reason!
And what about that light bubl that pops up when you get an idea? Pure proof that mr. edison figured it out on the john!
What about Back to the future? Doc. discovered the “flux Capasider” while in the bathroom.
by reading in the bathrooms you are wasting valuable thinking time… I mean you don’t think the people that invented laxatives weren’t on the john at the time, do you?
“the bathroom is not a library and shouldn’t be used as such”
What do you do when you visit a public library bathroom?
My bathroom has a sign:
The Wanderer’s office.
Please call ahead for appointment.
Approximate wait time: Until his feet fall asleep or he finishes the comic…
Various Foxtrot books
The two Onion collections
A couple rotating Big Book of… volumes (I think Hoaxes and Criminals is in there now)
The user guide to 1602 A.D. (And why it’s in there, I don’t know)
The Prima guide to Everquest
And finally, some assorted issues of Landscape Contractor, Irrigation Contractor Monthly and other trade magazines I get free.
Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader is the best series of books to read. It really does help ease the strain.
I’m an official carded BRI (Bathroom Reader’s Institute) Member!
Bathrooms are where I read my magazines; both at home and at the office. I don’t stay in there long, but I feel that not reading something would be a waste of time.
Magazines, of course, rotate. I seldom reread, or even save, them. Most common are ‘Fortean Times’, ‘Archaeology’, ‘Industry and Technology’, ‘Discovery’, etc.