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
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 (unpublished letters to The Telegraph)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 Bosse de NageSpeaking 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.
Bog = toilet
Originally posted by FMFGuests should bring their own books, too.
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.
There is a guest toilet.