Bog Books

Pick Five. Current or recent. Bog-reading averse bigots butt out.


The Star Trek Next Generation Companion - all 7 series, plot outlines/production notes.

Henry Root’s World of Knowledge (and Common Sense)

Dark Star : An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia, Robert Greenfield

The Top Ten Of Everything 2010: Russell Ash

Wisden Almanac 2003

Sorry, but what is a Bog book?

Rather than five favourites - as they tend to be somewhat forgettable) - 5 of the reading material in my loo recently and at present:

- The Mock the Week Annual
- Little People in the City: the street art of Slinkachu
- Am I alone in Thinking..? (unpublished letters to The Telegraph)
- a print-out of the BBC website magazine's Paper Monitor Annual
- The Book of Dead Philosophers, by Simon Critchley

I tend to carry things into the bog rather than select from a bogpile.

Things read from recently in the bog:
Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
Robert Walser, Institute Benjamenta
Peter Porter, The Last of England
Antony Flew (ed.), A Dictionary Of Philosophy
Peter Cave, Can A Robot Be Human? (worthy of permanent bog duty to enliven the bog-time of the thinking guest)

Originally posted by badmoon
Sorry, but what is a Bog book?

An object through which the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message can concur with the process of egesting stools.

Of late and almost exclusively: Renegade - The Lives and Tales of Mark E Smith

Originally posted by FMF
An object through which the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message can concur with the process of egesting stools.

Silly books. I don't have the sense of humor for meaningless reads. Waste of time, like fantasy fiction.

Originally posted by badmoon
Silly books. I don't have the sense of humor for meaningless reads. Waste of time, like fantasy fiction.

Bog = toilet

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Bog = toilet

Speaking of which, do you really allow your house guests to use your toilet facilities? It's strikes me as overly familiar. I wouldn't want my guests simply assuming that they could. They ought to think ahead when they are still in their own houses.

Originally posted by FMF
Speaking of which, do you really allow your house guests to use your toilet facilities? It's strikes me as overly familiar. I wouldn't want my guests simply assuming that they could. They ought to think ahead when they are still in their own houses.

Guests should bring their own books, too.

There is a guest toilet.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Bog = toilet

Ok, yes I can be thick as a brick at times.

Originally posted by badmoon
Ok, yes I can be thick as a brick at times.

Well, regardless of thickness, with a bit of patience, and a good book, it'll pass in just the same way as the small ones or even semi-solids.