Judge a person by their bathroom reading.

[Anonymous]

Judge a book by it's cover? The first time I visit a persons house I judge the magazines in the bathroom and books on the shelf.

In my bathrooms:
Guns and Ammo
American Handgunner
National Geographic (Astronomy cover issue)
Astronomy Now
Physics Today
IEEE Spectrum
Modern Bride (Whoaa! Not mine I swear)
Rock and Ice Mountain Guide
Collection of "Your Mamma is so Fat" jokes


There are some many accusations of stupidity on this site. What goes into your brain?

[Pete]

I don't read when I'm taking a shit. Well not usually. I take what ever I'm reading with me, so if I'm reading then I guess I do. So they are kept in my room. Recently though I had:

Beaver Magazine
This Magazine
Naseau - Jean Paul Satre
Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert

Book on my shelf? I will give you a small glimspe, I have many many many.

Sone encyclopedias from the set down stairs
Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
The Odyssey - Homer
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L shirer
The Zapitista Reader - Tom Hayden
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
The Origin of Specis - Charles Darwin
The Waste Land and other Poem - T.S. Eliot
The Catcher and the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Blood and Iron - Harry Turtledove
Various Starwars books that I used to read 2 or more years ago
The Space Trilogy - C.S. Lewis
The Lost Road - J.R.R. Tolkien
In Enemy Hands - Daneil Dancocks
The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
The Hitch Hikers Guide of the Galazy - Douglas Adams
The Wisdom of Mao - Chinese Foriegn Press
The 12th Planet - Zecharia Setchin
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Communist Manifesto and other Revolutionary Works - Various authors
ect
ect
ect.

Surprised?

[Anonymous]

Books scattered around my desk:

Why Do People Hate America - Ziauddin Sardar
1984 - George Orwell
Votes For Women - Paula Bartley
The Art Of War- Sun Tzu
The Prince - Machiavelli
New Statesman
The Spectator
Dune - Frank Herbert
A couple of Pratchett

[Nobody]

Long Walk to Freedom
Scientific American - Time Special Edition
the White Boned Demon - Bio of Mrs. Mao
A History of the Long March
Ten Greatest Generals of All Time (Why Am I not in it?)
Communist Manisto
1st Volume of Trotsky's Military Theory (there are 5?!)
The Bible (a joke)

[Dhul Fiqar]

I only recently took up the custom of reading in the bathroom, I kept hearing people talking about doing and decided it was as good a time as any to get through a page of text.

Currently I have a book of collected highlights from Douglas Adams' (of Hitchiker's Guide fame) computer at the time of his death. A lot of interesting letters he wrote to people, short passages and introductions he penned for one reason or another and left on his HD.

Generally I prefer light reading or magazines because spending more than a couple of minutes in the bathroom is not really that fun.

Generally speaking, I have all of Carl Hiaasen's books somewhere, they're all fantastic (although he co-wrote a couple I haven't read). I have the Quran on my bedside table. On my shelves there are waayyyy too many thick textbooks and collected works on sociology, psychology, political science, economics, philosophy, criminal, deviance and penology issues. I also have quite a few books on drugs.

My dad has an extensive library, a lot of it on political science but also lots of classic novels and A LOT on Islam and the politics of Islam. I am trying to work my way through the highlights, but it will take more than a little time!

All this and I don't even like to read. That's masochism for ya...

--- G.

[Anonymous]

Quote: from Funky Monk on 4:26 pm on June 13, 2003
Books scattered around my desk:

Why Do People Hate America - Ziauddin Sardar
1984 - George Orwell
Votes For Women - Paula Bartley
The Art Of War- Sun Tzu
The Prince - Machiavelli
New Statesman
The Spectator
Dune - Frank Herbert
A couple of Pratchett


Art of War? It definately was not. More like "Grandma's Good Advice for Combat" It went in one ear and out the other. It had lots of good advice like: Don't fight tired. Don't fight hungry. Have the sun in your enemies eyes. Don't make full frontal assaults on your enemies strong points. etc.

I remember it just like I remember Das Kapital. Both held my attention the same way.

Art of War is to Das Kapital as combat is to economics.

Lots of good true-isms. Both of them are not master strategies to wage war or build a government.

[Anonymous]

Quote: from Dhul Fiqar on 5:12 pm on June 13, 2003
I have the Quran on my bedside table. On my shelves there are waayyyy too many thick textbooks and collected works on sociology, psychology, political science, economics, philosophy, criminal, deviance and penology issues. I also have quite a few books on drugs.


--- G.


Oh I did forget the bedside did I.

Harry Potter Year 4
Bible, next to the flashlight and .45 automatic

Shelves:
Introduction to Controled Thermonuclear Phyics
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
Introduction to Electrodynamics
Mathematical Methods for Physicists
Digital Signal Processining
Russian
Russki Yzik B Kartinnikax 1 2
Unix Power Tools
Unix Haters
TCP/IP for Dummies

[Dhul Fiqar]

Man, I get sleepy just reading through that list! Not that 90% of my books are of any real interest either... Sometimes self-improvement just isn't any fun.

Out of curiosity, why Russian and are you just interested in physics or studying it?

--- G.

[Invader Zim]

In my house there are over 2000 books (my mum reads so much, so I will make a small sample of what I have read my self within the last few years...

Volumes 1 and 3 of the Sherlock Holmes Casebook. (cant find 2 dammit)
Oliver Twist
Harry Potter series... and im not ashamed at all.
Kim
Sharpe series
AS level Geography
Terry Prachett's Disk World Series
Flashman series
Kerrang June 7 2003
History Of flight ACP33 Cadet Publication
Napoleon & Wellington
Wellington
The USA 1917-1941
Pride and Prejudice
Modern World History
Nicholas Nickleby

And some other stuff on and off.

(Edited by AK47 at 5:40 pm on June 13, 2003)

[Anonymous]

Quote: from Dhul Fiqar on 5:36 pm on June 13, 2003
Man, I get sleepy just reading through that list! Not that 90% of my books are of any real interest either... Sometimes self-improvement just isn't any fun.

Out of curiosity, why Russian and are you just interested in physics or studying it?

--- G.


All the best textbooks for nuclear physics are in Russian.

[Blibblob]

Art of War? It definately was not. More like "Grandma's Good Advice for Combat" It went in one ear and out the other. It had lots of good advice like: Don't fight tired. Don't fight hungry. Have the sun in your enemies eyes. Don't make full frontal assaults on your enemies strong points. etc.

I remember it just like I remember Das Kapital. Both held my attention the same way.

Art of War is to Das Kapital as combat is to economics.

Lots of good true-isms. Both of them are not master strategies to wage war or build a government.
You don't like Sun Tzu because he had morals and you are just a savage modern moron.

(Edited by Blibblob at 12:58 pm on June 13, 2003)

[truthaddict11]

Swank

j/k ;)

[Anonymous]

This is about half.

The Histories
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Decameron
The Twelve Ceasars
Animal Farm
Meditations
1984
The Inferno
The Communist Manifesto (Norton Critical Edition)
The Count of Monte Cristo
In the Heart of the Sea
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Prince
War and Peace
The Basic Works of Aristotle
The Republic
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil
The Politics
Crime and Punishment
Atlas Shrugged
Why the Left Hates America
Useful Idiots
Killing Pablo
The Practical Archaeologist
Lies my Teacher Told Me
Barbarians Against Rome
A Dictionary of the Roman Empire
Atlas of World History
Atlas of the World
Chronicle of the 20th Century
Encylclopedia of Mythology
35 additons of National Geographic from the past three years
13 edition of Reader's Digest





There are many here I have yet to read and/or finish.

[Moskitto]

what the? this reminds me of my brother, he walks into the bathroom with a book, takes 20 minutes to shit then walks out again having read 2 chapters. I walk in, take 2 minutes to do a shit and walk out not having read anything.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, it usually takes me about a half an hour.

[atlanticche]

its a conspiracy

[atlanticche]

a very shity one at that

[Vinny Rafarino]

it appears that some "people" here have compiled a list of bathroom rading that reads like my old 100 level philosophy curriculum I doubt you've even scanned the covers of the majority of these books in the library...Get real knobs....you know you're full of it. Here's my [b]real[b] list.

Penthouse
Hustler
Club (my faaaaaavourite)
High Society
Barely Eighteen.....oh yeah....

Oh dear god my good man...How forgetful of me..I do believe I have left my leatherbound copy of "the republic" in the toilet....Along with the collective works of Friedrich Nietszche and Jean Paul Satre...

You are jokes DC and kelvin90210.

[Pete]

Hey! I enjoy Nietzche and Satre, but of course I rarely read while shitting. In the summer at the staff house I am sure there will be a few editions of Maxim and some hunting magazines in the stalls.

[Hampton]

Why would you put people in quotations Raf? Are they animals?

[Vinny Rafarino]

I don't consider kelvin90210 or DC as people comrade Hampton....Animals....now that's probably more accurate.

[Anonymous]

Hey dumbass, I was listing the books I had on my bookshelf. About the only thing I read on the toilet are national goegraphics and technical manuals.

[Zombie]

I have the Quran on my bedside table.

I didn't know you were a Muslim ;)

[Anonymous]

Well, actually, I did manage to read the prince over a two week period, all while taking a shit. (Keep in mind I was reading other things too)

[Vinny Rafarino]

Quote: from Dark Capitalist on 8:51 pm on June 13, 2003
Hey dumbass, I was listing the books I had on my bookshelf. About the only thing I read on the toilet are national goegraphics and technical manuals.


Lies and propaganda!

Come clean DC!

Everybody does it boy. The kids loooove it and I for one am glad I got in on the ground floor...

You won't really go blind DC.

[Anonymous]

No, sorry, I get most of my porn off the internet. It's cheaper that way

[Anonymous]

There is nothing so satisfy as a really long shit. Trying to force it out over a two minute period must really leave you unfulfilled.

[Zombie]

are you nuts, urgh, you make it sound like anal sex or something ;)

i just come in, make my shit, and get the fuck out. :)

[Corvus Corax]

Shitting is an artform, and shitting and reading go together like peas and carrots. I couldn't imagine one without the other. Nothing beats a good long shit while browsing through a magazine

[Anonymous]

Quote: from COMRADE RAF on 8:45 pm on June 13, 2003
I don't consider kelvin90210 or DC as people comrade Hampton....Animals....now that's probably more accurate.



My excuse is that I am cleaning out the garage tonight. Later will be a late dinner with the sweetie when she comes of work. Why are you here in a Friday night?

I see you like the young girls. Don't you hate it when you just entered your thrities, your girlfriend is only 19, and there is a company party. Piss off the sweetie and go alone or turn judgemental heads and go with a really really young girl. Don't you hate it when that happens?

[CubanFox]

Books strewn across my room:

Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy
Sharpe's Prey by Bernard Cornwell
Lenin for Beginners by Richard Appignanesi
The Russians by Hendrick Smith
Che Guevara - A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson

[truthaddict11]

when someone gets the chance move ths thread to literature i think it will be better there

[Pete]

A cappie started it. It stays here.

[rumblefish86]

My bookcase:

Everything: a book about Manic Street Preachers- Simon 'peadophile wanker' Price
Less than zero- Bret Easton Ellis
Rules of attraction- Bret Easton Ellis
American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis
A clockwork orange- Anthony Burgess
The outsider- Albert Camus
Fight club- Chuck Palahniuk
Motorcycle diaries- Che
Torture garden- Octave Mirbeau
Ariel- Sylvia Plath
Guerilla tapestry- Patrick Jones
High windows- Phillip Larkin
SCUM manifesto- Valerie Solanos
Prozac nation- Elizabeth Wurtzel

Meh, i cant think of the rest! :biggrin:

I occasionally read them in the bathroom but i prefer to read them in bed cos its more comfy.

[Anonymous]

Quote: from Blibblob quote]
You don't like Sun Tzu because he had morals and you are just a savage modern moron.

(Edited by Blibblob at 12:58 pm on June 13, 2003)


I did not say I did not like Sun Tzu. I have never met him. I was looking for great insights into warefare. Again he had lots of good advice. Advice I would imagine my grandmother would give me if she were a great general.

Moron? What is in your brain?