Recommend me some toilet reading material

MagicNinja · #1 02-25-2007, 01:37 AM

I love to sit on the john and read a book but its basically impossible to read something real. I like learning things about the world i live in (be it about science art geography mathematics physics whatever).

Recommend me some books that are good to open to any page, read for 5-10 and then close pls!

mbillie1 · #2 02-25-2007, 01:39 AM

I dunno if this is up your alley, but Jorge Luis Borges' "The Aleph and Other Stories" is perfect. A bunch of fascinating, beautifully written short stories ranging from 1-10 pages in length. FWIW he's considered the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes, and his stuff is spectacular.

Freakin · #3 02-25-2007, 01:49 AM

dustybottoms · #4 02-25-2007, 01:55 AM

pokergrader · #5 02-25-2007, 01:56 AM

Heeb magazine

tsearcher · #6 02-25-2007, 02:12 AM

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader is pretty good. It's full of 2-3 page articles. Mostly, kind of a fun facts kind of thing. It also has some longer, more in depth articles that take more than one sitting. A couple of years ago, the book had a real nice history of US and Iranian relations.

Almanacs are always good. Also the Bible's not bad. It's full of short stories, parables, sayings, etc.

#7 02-25-2007, 02:18 AM

Waterfall · #8 02-25-2007, 02:31 AM

I currently have:

You cant go wrong with:

DrNo888 · #9 02-25-2007, 02:33 AM

I just finished Freakonomics, all read on the john. Took awhile to finish lol.

Blarg · #10 02-25-2007, 02:34 AM

Get "The Mammoth Book of ..." this or that. Most selections are quite short and pretty punchy, and they come in fiction and non-fiction on all sorts of subjects.

Two I can recommend are Maneaters and, um WW2 stories or whatever. Both really fun to read.