# What's Your Bathroom Reading Material? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 4, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693 "2005-10-04T04:04:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/21 "2005-10-04T14:28:53Z")
One bathroom has an Onion complete news archive collection, although I’ve also put a gardening/lawn care book in there as well. The other has Mike Nelson’s _Mind Over Matters_, which is a collection of short, funny essays. The Playboy magazines are in that one as well (yes, I do actually _read_ the magazine). ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/22 "2005-10-04T14:34:13Z")
> [@irishgirl](#): > > At the moment we have 2 copies of Total Film, the Culture section from this weeks Sunday Times and an Obs/Gyn textbook (I have exams coming up). > > Probably not sending out great messages to any visitors. I’m now imagining **irishgirl** on the can going, “Ooooh, so THAT’S where the tampon goes. No wonder I’ve been so constipated. And what’s that little dohickey there? _The clitoris_? Well that doesn’t sound right!” ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/23 "2005-10-04T14:40:20Z")
**bouv** , you don’t read many of my posts, do you. I’m MUCH smarter than that! 😃 Usually. Sort of. Sometimes you’re not far off the mark. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/24 "2005-10-04T19:16:23Z")
Required bathroom reading… Triumph of the Straight Dope The Straight Dope Tells All Return of the Straight Dope More of the Straight Dope The Straight Dope Know It All Ok - I admit it, I don’t have them all ☹ ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/25 "2005-10-04T19:31:14Z")
Nothing, unless we happen to have a bottle of Dr. Bronner’s. Four people and one bathroom–I have no business tying up the toity. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/26 "2005-10-04T19:31:52Z")
Let’s see, what have I got in there at the moment: - “Star Trek, The Eugenics War, Vol. 2” (my husband is reading it - I’ve read it already) - Style at Home magazine - Westworld magazine - Kenneth R. Miller’s “Finding Darwin’s God” - Home Improvement 1-2-3 Do-It-Yourself book I normally have my current book in there, too (which currently is “Sundiver” by David Brin), but it is in my computer room for a change. I think I have too much stuff in the loo - time to cull a little. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/27 "2005-10-04T19:33:46Z")
Reader’s Digest is the only thing that ever stays. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/28 "2005-10-04T20:14:31Z")
10-year-old Playboys which were left in the house when we bought it The current issue of Pages magazine A couple of collections of Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side The Chocolate Corndog – a Balona book – these are self-published. I forgot the author’s name. These are kinda like low-rent versions of the Mitford books. The title of this one seems appropriate for a bathroom. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/29 "2005-10-04T20:34:50Z")
At work: I bring my PDA and (silently) play Bejeweled. At home: Whatever I’m currently reading. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/30 "2005-10-04T22:15:59Z")
Currently residing in the john are the following titles: Bound For Glory: The Autobiography of Woody Guthrie Two most recent issues of Interview Magazine Structures for Jazz (a book about advanced harmonic concepts for jazz guitar) Some back issues of the Onion Robert Hunter: Collected Lyrics ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/31 "2005-10-04T22:59:11Z")
Colin McEvedy’s Historical Atlas series! Most of my historical knowledge I’ve gained in 5 minute increments over the last 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/32 "2005-10-04T23:32:12Z")
On occasion I have kept a bathroom novel that I worked my way through on successive visits, but it’s always been something I’d read before, like a P.G. Wodehouse novel. Otherwise…a volume or two from an old encyclopedia, or one of those old Time Life Science books…in short, anything from which I can read a more-or-less self-contained snippet while I’m there. ---
**Author:** ![notso\_clever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f475e1/32.png) [@notso\_clever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notso_clever)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/33 "2005-10-04T23:40:22Z")
I usually keep Cosmo, Glamour or Us Weekly. Nothing too heady. Trashy reading for the bathroom. I like to read in the tub too. But I will bring a novel into the tub with me. Or other magazines that are a little more pithy. ---
**Author:** ![Penchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Penchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penchan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/34 "2005-10-04T23:52:44Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > At work: I bring my PDA and (silently) play Bejeweled. ! I think I love you. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/35 "2005-10-05T00:48:38Z")
The [Bible](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=297249&highlight=bible) ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/36 "2005-10-05T01:00:32Z")
I bring whatever book or magazine I’m currently reading. I’ve never kept reading material in the bathroom; the apartments I rent tend to have small bathrooms, and there’s usually no place to put books or magazines where there’s no chance of them getting splashed with water or misted with hair spray or falling in the toilet. My mother usually leaves a book of mystery stories in the bathroom, but she doesn’t much care if her books get wet. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/37 "2005-10-05T01:10:27Z")
12 Great American Court Cases, circa 1967. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/38 "2005-10-05T01:37:39Z")
The latest issues of: Vintage Guitar magazine Paddler magazine American Whitewater magazine Cabela’s catalog ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/39 "2005-10-05T02:32:15Z")
Military history and historical biographies of late - currently one on Alfred the Great and another on Angevin loss of Normandy to Philip Augustus. Also comic book trade paperbacks :). > [@](#): > > Colin McEvedy’s Historical Atlas series! Most of my historical knowledge I’ve gained in 5 minute increments over the last 10 years. Those are decent little books. I’d also recommend them, though some are getting a bit dated now. - Tamerlane ---
**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:** [October 5, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693/40 "2005-10-05T06:14:28Z")
About ten puzzle books with only a few puzzles left, that I need to give up on someday. A London Daily Times crossword puzzle book I’m almost done with. Will Shortz’ Sudoko book, volume 2. And I often bring in the book I’m reading, currently Thud. Sometimes the paper. Sometimes a magazine. When I was 10 I lived in the Congo, and read the entire Rise and Fall of the Third Reich on the pot, while adjusting to the region. Not all in one sitting. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-bathroom-reading-material/324693.md?page=3)