What reading material is in your bathroom?

[Biltmore Bob]

On my toilet tank I have...

Cold Steel Knife catalog
The Cowboy Hat Book by Rich Rand
Rand's Custom Hats catalog
The Sportsmans Guide catalog
an issue of Combat Handguns
an issue of American Handgunner
Victorias Secret catalog
an issue of Popular Mechanics
an issue of Dog Fancy
New Testament

 

[PADDY]

Horse & Hound..

Horse and Hound
Tatler
Harpers and Queen
Hackett gents catelogue
Boden catelogue
Scottish Field
Living North
Ede & Ravenscroft catelogue

I know, all very boring stuff!!!

 

[magneto]

Vintage '40s and '50s Pocket Book paperback editions (with lurid covers, which is why I started collecting them) that are too damaged to put on display in the bookcase. In current rotation,
Butterfield 8, John O'Hara
Who Walk in Darkness, Chandler Brossard
The Pocket Cook Book, 1942 (with a lurid lobster picture...lobsters? in wartime?)
...and a Gregg Shorthand dictionary.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

The latest clothing catalogues

any other interesting catalogues that end up in my mailbox

National Geographic

a book or two of jokes or other light reading

a paperback dictionary

a book of idioms, my favorite. That's when you can look up some folksy quote you heard to see what it means and its origin (example: in a pig's eye)

karol

 

[The Wolf]

as a reply to previous

Biltmore, I know, you have Victoria's Secret catalog there just for the articles.

magneto, wow, you take golden-age living seriously!

K.D., that's more my speed. I'm just glad you don't have a thesaurus there. I can only imagine the synonyms of which you would be reminded.

The Wolf

 

[Vladimir Berkov]

I usually keep clothing catalogs on hand for bathroom reading. Right now I have:

Ben Silver
Brooks Brothers
J. Press
J. Peterman

 

[Biltmore Bob]

I don't know how Victorias Secret got there, really...

 

[Quigley Brown]

Vintage '40s and '50s Pocket Book paperback editions (with lurid covers, which is why I started collecting them) that are too damaged to put on display in the bookcase. In current rotation,
Butterfield 8, John O'Hara
Who Walk in Darkness, Chandler Brossard
The Pocket Cook Book, 1942 (with a lurid lobster picture...lobsters? in wartime?)
...and a Gregg Shorthand dictionary.

I'm like you...I have pocket book editions from the James Bond, Twilight Zone and Man from UNCLE series. Also I have one whole wall covered with vintage cha-cha-cha record album covers.

 

[BellyTank]

No reading material...

...I have a healthy colon...


B
T

 

[Panamabob]

It is a tradition in USA to escape and read in the bathroom. Has NOTHING to do with an unhealthy colon, digestive systems, or the food eaten. In fact, there is a whole slew of Uncle John's Bathroom Readers in print here.

Apt nicknames:

The Library
The Reading Room

 

[magneto]

...Also I have one whole wall covered with vintage cha-cha-cha record album covers.

(high five) Swank! (and I don't mean the Golden Era men's magazine!)

 

[BellyTank]

It is a tradition in USA to escape and read in the bathroom. Has NOTHING to do with an unhealthy colon, digestive systems, or the food eaten. In fact, there is a whole slew of Uncle John's Bathroom Readers in print here.

Apt nicknames:

The Library
The Reading Room

Al Bundy(?)

I can think of many more appealing places to read...

B
T

 

[Nathan Flowers]

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As can I.

This thread is pretty crass, so I'm locking it down. If you folks want to talk about reading material in another thread, fine, but keep it out of the gutter.