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Recommend me some toilet reading material
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! |
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Re: Recommend me some toilet reading material
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.
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Heeb magazine
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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. |
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Re: Recommend me some toilet reading material
I currently have:
You cant go wrong with: |
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I just finished Freakonomics, all read on the john. Took awhile to finish lol.
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Re: Recommend me some toilet reading material
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. |
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