# What's in your bathroom library? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 11, 2002, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bathroom-library/142137 "2002-12-11T23:31:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bathroom-library/142137/21 "2002-12-12T14:38:59Z")
Behind the Glass Some old musig gear catalogs Some motorcycle parts catalogs ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bathroom-library/142137/22 "2002-12-12T14:41:00Z")
I have a bathroom reader-it’s not uncle johns, but it has a white cover and I think it’s called the great bathroom reader III, I had the other 2 in there, but they’ve been read, so… I also have a diving magazine and an HP Lovecraft anthology book. ---
**Author:** ![Pablito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@Pablito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pablito)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bathroom-library/142137/23 "2002-12-12T14:47:15Z")
I’ve gotten go with **Plnnr** on this: I have no books there and have no interest in reading there. I know it takes some people a longer time to do their business, but (TMI alert) if I’m in the bathroom on the toilet for more than about a minute and a half (and that includes time for dropping pants, wiping, refastening pants, etc.), then someone better call an ambulance because I have probably keeled over with a stroke or heart attack or something. I have too many other rooms in the house that I’d rather spend time in. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bathroom-library/142137/24 "2002-12-12T15:12:31Z")
Discover Maxim Car and Driver Recent Ads/circulars from Newspapers ---
**Author:** ![LifeIllustrator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/958977/32.png) [@LifeIllustrator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeIllustrator)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bathroom-library/142137/25 "2002-12-12T15:52:11Z")
A couple of issues of SI A Playboy magazine I think a couple CompUSA/Best Buy/Circuit city Adds and Bob Costas’ baseball book ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bathroom-library/142137/26 "2002-12-12T15:54:45Z")
**Dante’s Inferno**. What a great read… ---
**Author:** ![Reuben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@Reuben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reuben)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bathroom-library/142137/27 "2002-12-12T16:02:24Z")
Every Dilbert book Scott Adams ever wrote. Also Godel,Escher,Bach is in there at the moment, along with some technology / guitar mags. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by plnnr \* > **The seat is not particularly comfortable. The light is not the best.** Speak for yourself! In my flat, it’s probably the most comfortable seat; certainly it’s the best lit room in the place. No TV, no phone, no silly questions, no _expectations_ from anyone else. Bliss! ---
**Author:** ![Emilio\_Lizardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Emilio\_Lizardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emilio_Lizardo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bathroom-library/142137/28 "2002-12-12T16:02:43Z")
Tool catalogs. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bathroom-library/142137/29 "2002-12-12T16:25:52Z")
"Speak for yourself! In my flat, it’s probably the most comfortable seat; certainly it’s the best lit room in the place. " Then you have bigger problems than your digestive tract. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bathroom-library/142137/30 "2002-12-12T16:43:21Z")
My whole family leaves reading stuff in the bathroom…nothing like going to one and found in the shelves some book about civil law or The Economist…I only read them when I was really bored. Otherwise it was newspapers, comic books, or books like The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings. Now that I live alone…the Friday newspaper I get delivered for free and an all-sciences handbook my grampa gave me years ago. Sometimes the monthly free newspapers or the Portuguese antology of crônicas book. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bathroom-library/142137/31 "2002-12-12T17:32:41Z")
I have all the Calvin & Hobbes books, four Bloom County books, two Far Sides. I also have two _Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers,_ two _Straight Dopes_, George Carlin’s _Brain Droppings,_ Richard Lederer’s _Anguished English_ and a few others that I can’t think of off the top of my head. I’m trying to figure a way to put a bookshelf in there. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bathroom-library/142137/32 "2002-12-12T17:38:34Z")
I usually have a stack of old comic books; I buy them cheap on eBay a lot but don’t find myself with a lot of time to read them. Right now it’s a couple of Action Comics Weeklies, a D.C. anthology title from the late 80’s. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bathroom-library/142137/33 "2002-12-13T02:38:04Z")
Guys, it normally takes me about a minute and a half, as you said (my TMI for the week), but hey, that’s a minute and a half I get to spend reading. It’s my only chance at solitude, one of my few chances to read a book. The rest of the time, people will be demanding my attention. When I used to take public transportation to work, I had plenty of time to just sit and read. Now I drive to work. If I can squeeze in a few extra minutes of reading a day, doggone it, I welcome the opportunity. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-your-bathroom-library/142137.md?page=1)