Bathroom Books

[Patroclus]

Hey, do any of you keep books in the bathroom? Recently, I bought August 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. I want to read it, but I do not have much time. So, I decided to put it in my bathroom so I know I have at least some time to dedicate to it.

[studyhound]

Sure do! Rock climbing in the Pacific Northwest, heh I rock climb go figure. Meetings in HIS kingdom – home church writings, also fall and decline of the Roman empire (abridged), you know some lite reading :teeth: . and various Magazines



And yes my wife is going to kill me if I don’t clean up my mess.
:egad:



:studyhound:

[Dave G]

I've got Early Christian Doctrines in the bathroom right now, and I sometimes look at the Atlas of Literature, which gives locations of authors during their lifetimes as well as the locations of some of their characters.

[NeilUnreal]

An old magazines in the bathroom fan here.

-Neil

p.s. I was initially able to make headway on August 1914 by reading it on a long car trip on which I was a passenger.

[Darwin]

Right now it's

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140075569.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

A few examples of opening lines:

Dick Straith may have been captain of the football team but why, he thought, should that stop him from wearing his sister's tube top. Scott Davis Jones

Her full,voluptuous mouth sensually lipped an invitation to excitement and passion while her cold, steely, piercing eyes unblinkingly turned aside any approach to familiarity or intimacy; or was it the other way around? Lawrence H. Zisman

The dark can be scary, thought Todd, if you're young, impressionable, intoxicated, out of gas, naked and are forced to sit on vinyl seats. Rix Quinn

The camel died quite suddenly on the second day, and Selena fretted sulkily and, buffing her already impeccable nails---not for the first time since the journey began---pondered snidely if this would dissolve into a vignette of minor inconveniences like all the other holidays spent with Basil. Gail Cain

[NeilUnreal]

Darwin, that book is an absolute riot. I read it when it first came out and I still snicker when I remember some of the entries. I think two or three more are now available in the same series.

-Neil

[Darwin]

NeilUnreal,

Yeah, it is a hoot.

Her are a couple links to what's been going on recently.


The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/)

Bulwer's bicentennial Birthday Celebration (http://www.knebworthhouse.com/edwardbulwerlytton/Bulwer2003.html)


And for those unfamiliar with the opening sentence that started it all:

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."

--Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)

As for the current 2003 winner:

They had but one last remaining night together, so they embraced each other as tightly as that two-flavor entwined string cheese that is orange and yellowish-white, the orange probably being a bland Cheddar and the white . . . Mozzarella, although it could possibly be Provolone or just plain American, as it really doesn't taste distinctly dissimilar from the orange, yet they would have you believe it does by coloring it differently.
Ms. Mariann Simms
Wetumpka, AL

[Patroclus]

I want those books.

[Rubia Warren]

:huh: People really do read in the jon?

[NSMinistries]

I work for a book comapny. This means I seem to have books in every room of the house and storage shed, work, at friends houses, Family's houses, church, outside, attic, car, books books books... Sometimes I would like to be away from them.. But then I might get bored...

[Darwin]

People really do read in the jon?

Well I don't know about others, but I was brought up to try to make the best of a crappy situation.

[Rubia Warren]

Today @ 02:13 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=362204#post362204)
Darwin:



Well I don't know about others, but I was brought up to try to make the best of a crappy situation.

:lol: :highfive:

[kafka]

I keep a copy of "Left Behind" in the bathroom but it's not for reading...


...It's there just incase I run ..out... of... :wink:

[WillowPeredhel]

Almost all I read is read in there... I'm too busy the rest of the time!

Willow

[One Bad Pig]

01-03-2004 @ 03:23 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=361747#post361747)
Patroclus:

Hey, do any of you keep books in the bathroom? Recently, I bought August 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. I want to read it, but I do not have much time. So, I decided to put it in my bathroom so I know I have at least some time to dedicate to it.

I generally keep a book of short stories in there; I've gotten through almost the complete Sword & Sorceress series (20 books now). Right now, however, I'm taking a break from that and reading through The Federalist Papers.

[jinnythesquinny]

I keep a pile of books in my bathroom, and old magazines too. Not because I read on the loo, it's too cold for that, but because I read in the bath.

Currently, from memory, the following are gathering a fine layer of talc:

"The Gifts of the Jews" by Thomas Cahill
"Flossie Teacake's Fur Coat" by Hunter Davies
"Plato" - a small beginners guide type thing
"Wittgenstein: A very short introduction"
"The Amplified New Testament"
"Snare" by Katharine Kerr
"Hawksmoor" by Peter Ackroyd

and several back copies of "Private Eye"

I like to pick a book at random and peruse it in the bath. I've also found that keeping a bible in the bathroom is the best way to ensure I read it in the morning... :hrm: