The Bath Readers (original) (raw)
Monday, April 6th, 2009
10:20 pm
[sexycharlie111]
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Saturday, July 29th, 2006
10:53 pm
[thevinnlander]
The community needs some help. : )
Best recent fiction. Go.
Mine is Arturo Perez-Reverte's Purity of Blood.
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
5:12 am
[sunshiny_hilani]
Okay, I'm worried less now. Much less.
5:04 am
[sunshiny_hilani]
I just noticed that the location of this community is in Sri Lanka.
I really, really hope everyone's okay and the quietness of the community isn't because of the devastation of the tsunami.
Delete the post if you want to, because then I'd at least know.
-Hilani, strange but likes icecream
Saturday, December 11th, 2004
12:40 am
[thevinnlander]
Is anybody else reading Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events? I have to comment that they are really very charming books... At least what I've read so far.
Also, I'm reading Donald Kagan's
Peloponnesian War
, and I'm tiptoeing into Fernand Braudel's
A History of Civilizations
. -I may be a nerd, but at least I don't take myself seriously.
Monday, November 22nd, 2004
6:32 pm
[thevinnlander]
Favorite book to read inside while its winter outside?
Discuss.
Sunday, October 17th, 2004
11:56 pm
[sunshiny_hilani]
Okay so I didn't do what I said I would...I rarely ever do. On the list of books that I wanted to read I only read one! ONE!!! I'm so very disappointed in myself.
I read Memoirs of a Geisha and love it so dearly. My friend and I got into a little argument about how we saw it.
( A Fantastic Book That I Suggest You Read!!!Collapse )
-Hil(I've gone crazy...should I be trusted?)ani
Current Mood: 
sleepy
Saturday, September 4th, 2004
10:19 am
[thevinnlander]
100 years of Solitude ohmygosh I finished
100 Years of Solitude
... I took quite a while in reading it, mostly because I didn't want it to end. Beyond the fact that I loved it, I still want some time to think about it before I'm ready to comment on it.
So this is really a lame post.
Sorry.
I think I'm going to take a bath.
Friday, August 27th, 2004
12:45 pm
[sunshiny_hilani]
I hate not posting as often as I thought I would...Just came back from camping so yeah...No bathreading then. ( Books I have ReadCollapse )
Books I'm going to read once I get a ride to the library.
The Da Vinci Code...Cannot put it off anymore. I promise I'll read it this time instead of just saying I would.
The Red Tent
The Red Petal and the White
Prince of Thieves
I don't remember who the authors are for all but The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown...I think. I'm bad at remembering author names.
Books I am reading.
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arther Golden
I love it so much my heart throbs with longing. Exquisite! Seductive! Innocent! I'm not even half way through it!
I'm rereading some Shakespeare. Macbeth. I like reading it outloud in the Bath. My voice is loud and strong. I feel like a Thesbian!
Okay I'm done now.
-Hil( Will try to post regularly instead of a large post rarely)ani
Current Mood: accomplished
Thursday, August 26th, 2004
8:24 pm
[delahk]
not really anything big to say. just wanted to say that i'm almost done with the third book in that _dark tower_ series by stephen king that i mentioned a while ago. it's just getting better, and yes i've read each of the books in the bathtub. booyakasha.
i highly recommend these books for lovers of fantasy, westerns, sci-fi or just generally messed-up stuff/good stories in general.
Tuesday, August 24th, 2004
2:36 am
[tippy_cup_ella]
I'm currently reading "One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest" I started it before but lost it during a move (i move all the time) and so I started it over. It's the second book I've read since I moved into this house with a BATHTUB.
It's a nice bathtub, pretty long. 2 small problems, though. The hot water heater is small so it fills my bath but doesn't allow me much reheating. I guess that's good...keep the water and gas bills down!
The other thing is the bottom has these textured circles on it. They aren't the stick on ones, they're part of the tub. Now I have this big chafed spot on my back from where i slide down on this rough stuff. I can't get that one spot off my back to sit somewhere else! It's kind of sore the whole time I'm bathing.
Not that these problems will convert me to a shower person.
I also finally get to use this bath gel someone bought me. It's nice. Reading while softening my skin...I'm a multitasker.
Current Mood: 
bored
Monday, August 23rd, 2004
2:21 pm
[thevinnlander]
Currently I'm reading a book titled
The Ecology of Commerce
, by one Paul Hawken.
Its a very interesting read. What Hawken proposes is a re-organization of business so that instead of a linear extractionary process, there is a cyclic, restorative process. For example, right now companies like Walmart are committed to buying sustainable timber at a higher proce... Hawken makes suggestions so that the sustainable timber would be the least expensive. In other words, he opts for internalizing all the environmental and social costs of doing business. Coca-Cola and Nike would pay for the injustices done during the manufacture of their products.
I'm not that far, and I haven't come across any concrete suggestions (there are supposed to be some), but I'm already impressed with this book. I recommend it to ecology and business types.
As an aside- anybody read any good environmental or ecological stuff lately?
Saturday, July 31st, 2004
11:06 am
[delahk]
The Gunslinger On Thursday I wasn't feeling well. So before John Kerry's speech, I sat in the tub and read the last 70 or so pages of _The Gunslinger_ by Stephen King. I don't know how many of you read much Stephen King, but if you don't you should know that he's not all horror. Of course he wrote _The Shawshank Redemption_ and _The Green Mile_, and I guess those are good, but personally I like his fantasy-esque stuff. The first Stephen King book I read was _Firestarter_, when I was like 9 or something. I liked it okay, but _Eyes of the Dragon_, the second King book I read (maybe when I was 10 or 11), is still one of my favorite books. It's a medieval fairy tale, with some of the grit that fairy tales used to have before we watered them down. And then, you know, King wrote it. So that lends an interesting, subtly creepy aura to the whole thing.
_The Gunslinger_ is kinda like that. King wrote it when he was in college (it's part one of a seven-book story that he just finished last year), and issued a revised and expanded edition recently. In the foreword King tells us that his inspiration for the book (apart from the Robert Browning poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,") came in part from reading Tolkien's _The Lord of the Rings_ books, and being blown away. He wanted to do something on that scale, he decided, but not right away (he feared making a too-similar story). So he waited a while, and I guess one day he saw "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" on a huge screen in a movie theater, and the mixture of Clint Eastwood's bad-ass-itude and Sergio Leone's warped sense of American space and time just kinda slammed it all together for him. Saying that _The Gunslinger_ is like the spawn of _LoTR_ and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" is KINDA right, but only if that spawn was raised by H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen Hawking. The book is slow to begin, but it gets in your head and I dreamed it for a week straight. The last 70 pages flew by.
Then I watched John Kerry. That's a discussion for another community.
Thursday, July 29th, 2004
12:55 am
[tippy_cup_ella]
I finally found a new house to move into. We move in in 2 weeks and I can't wait because...this house has a BATHTUB! Shower stalls suck.
I will be doing a lot more reading now. I used to read at least a book a week. So far this summer I have read 2 books. Sad, sad.
Current Mood: 
excited
Wednesday, July 28th, 2004
11:12 pm
[thevinnlander]
One Hundred Years of Solitude
... but I'm not quite ready to say anything about that yet.
I'd finished David Sedaris'
Naked
some time ago... and I enjoyed it, but I'm still not exactly sure what I think of it. I'm not sure if that makes any sense, but I'm trying to be honest. Sedaris is by turns funny, outrageous, and entertaining. However, I can't help but feel that by going for the laugh Sedaris sometimes misses something larger... I mean, I like to be funny, and I like to entertain, but I realize that its not appropriate in all situations...
Anyhow, if anybody has read him -do you have thoughts on Sedaris? Memoirs? Funny memoirs?
Wednesday, July 21st, 2004
8:32 pm
[delahk]
Aqua Erotica So I was vacationing in the Cape Cod area - the gay mecca of Provincetown to be exact - and in a store called Herotica I discovered a book series called Aqua Erotica. Regular readers of this community will notice that Francesca Lia Block is a contributor, as are other great writers like Mary Gaitskill and Poppy Z. Brite.
Why Aqua Erotica? Well, I guess the stories somehow involve water. Oh yeah, and THE BOOKS ARE WATERPROOF!!!! I'm telling you folks, I damn near flipped my lid.
Anyway, hopefully I haven't offended with the content of this entry. But when I saw those books, I just knew I'd have to do a post on them.
Saturday, July 17th, 2004
1:07 am
[sunshiny_hilani]
Don't worry fellers, I read as much as I breathe and I bath...Well never mind how much I bath!
Well I think that sometimes age matters when a person picks up a book to read. I think it matters to me about half the time but there are times when I really surprise myself.
I had forgotten most of my childrens books and so I spent most of Friday morning in the library sitting in the beanbag seat and going through so many old books.
Nostalgia up the yin...
But I'm not very old either, I'm nearing sixteen already actually. Around the age where I feel the need to go against everything and find individuality but feel an urge to fit in...
But there was this book I finished moments before that mad me rush around the net to find some place to talk about it. It was lucky I found a strange place with the same bathreading interest I liked and was still alive!
Well enough with my chatter.
The book is a teen book called "Wasteland" by author Francesca Lia Block.
The books surface theme was love, but don't worry, it's not overly mushy love.
There's alot of strange realization in this book and the style is unique, like journal entries but it switches back and forth. To me, the characters seem full but then empty because you don't know alot. You just know what you need to.
The love is an odd love. Not just between two people but a love hexagon it seems. The love is different and shocking and when I finished the book, I felt such a strange emptiness. Not so much longing for love or anything of the sort, more like longing for the tears that refused to come. And I usually do cry when reading sad stories, which this was by the way.
This book also made me realize that love doesn't have to be between two people, and I'm not just talking sibling love either. It makes me understand that sometiomes you can love any person or thing. And I do mean ANY.
Ms. Block doesn't use very sophisticated vocabulary but her emotions show through even in the simpliest articles. I think she has fanastic imagery in this particular book though.
"When you were a baby I sat very still to hold you. I could see veins through your skin like a map to inside you. I stopped breathing so you wouldn't"
I'm not sure if I'm making sense but I really love this writer. It's like she lived such a unique life and walks to such a strange beat but somehow still remain...Not normal but something. I don't know.
I also read another book by her when I was younger, something called. "I was a Teenage Fairy" It was so traumatizing for me back then. I was depressed for weeks.
So that finishes off what I have to say about "Wasteland" and I'm sure I'll finish a book by tommorow.
Cha!
-Hil(I did not bath while reading this book sadly)ani
Current Mood: calm
Thursday, July 15th, 2004
9:52 pm
[thevinnlander]
The Prince of Tides
was quite good. Its been a very long time since I've met such compelling characters... Occasionally you'll read a book, then think about what happens to the characters after the book has ended -this is one of those books. Additionally, Conroy has an excellent sense of place. I mean... Damn. He doesn't dwell on it, but it still feels like you're there. Masterfully done.
My single complaint regards psychology... the personality of the characters makes sense, but there is a psychologist who doesn't. Being that I have a degree in psychology, I had to suspend belief a bit... and in some places it felt like quite a stretch. That being said, I'm nit-picking, because thats what I do, and you shouldn't let that discourage you from reading it whatsoever, in or out of baths.
What books have y'all recently read with exceptionally well defined characters?
Tangentially: I've started on
Naked
, by David Sedaris, and already I've laughed out loud enough for people around me to look at me with suspicion.
Thursday, July 1st, 2004
12:58 pm
[delahk]
Blankets I feel like I need to fill space on this community even if it is just me talking to myself. Maybe somebody else will stumble by and help get things going. Or maybe 
thevinnlander will get off of his duff and talk about one of the many books he's always reading. tippy_cup_ella is excused because she's new.
So I just finished reading Craig Thompson's Blankets. Damn. That book was amazing. It didn't end quite the way I wanted it to end, but I guess that's life.
Also, my re-reading of The Dark Tower is going well. I've progressed farther into it than I ever did when I tried to read it so many times before. Maybe because I know the series is almost over.
I read a lot of livejournals too, but I don't think I should take my laptop into the tub with me.
Monday, June 28th, 2004
8:54 pm
[delahk]
Holy Crap!!!! Vinnlander! I just checked the user info and bathreaders has a new member! Welcome...*checks user info* tippy_cup_ella!
Suddenly I feel very guilty for the poor maintenance of this community...Vinnlander, what are you reading? I'm trying to read The Dark Tower. Yes, I know. But damn it I want to.