Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I voted 1-5, but actually, at the moment there are nearly 30, but that's because we are reading all of the Beatrix Potter books. There are usually only a couple though.
How many books by the side of your bed?
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Vintage Paw
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mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Me too, my whole collection is next to my bed so in that respect nearly 2000..........
about 5/6 on the bedside table though !
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
^ That is excellent Vintage Paw, thanks.
I have no books by my bed. The bookcase is within easy reach though.
I made a thread
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=261529
ScallyWag II
New Member
There's a lot, all lined up in piles of four, rising to five then to six, against the wall leading up to the bedside table. They used to act as a staircase for my old cat as she liked to sleep on the bed but was too arthritic to jump up. Mainly sci-fi and fantasy, all have been read. Should get round to taking them to a charity shop really.
janeb
WW Tyrion do?
They all look like crap thrillers
Most are to be honest, doing lots of travelling at the moment so seem to be collecting 'buy 2 get 1 free' or 'buy 1, get 1 half price' books that are on sale at WH Smiths - very few of those are anything but crappy thrillers but it passes the time
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
"Beliefs and Ideology" by Kenneth Thomson
"The Ninth Stone" by Kylie Fitzpatrick
"A Beginner's Guide to Digital Video" by Peter Wells
"Odd and the Frost Giants" by Neil Gaiman
"Feeding Frenzy" by Will Self
"Subculture: The Meaning of Style" by Dick Hebdige
"Against Nature" by J. K. Huysmans
"Lascaux: Paintings and Engravings" by Annette Laming
"To Hell with Culture" by Herbert Read
"The Water Manifesto" by Riccardo Petrella
"Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones" by Bart Hopkin
"The Triumph of the Moon" by Ronald Hutton
"The Woodcuts of Albrecht Durer" by T. D. Barlow
"The Duino Elegies" by Rainer Maria Rilke
"A Concise History of Modern Painting" by Herbert Read
"On Historical Materialism" by Franz Mehring
"On the Pleasure of Hating" by William Hazlitt
"Europe's Inner Demons" by Norman Cohn
The Chambers Giant Paperback English Dictionary.
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (7th ed)
and about 50 others in a box that serves as a bedside table.
"The Ninth Stone" by Kylie Fitzpatrick
"A Beginner's Guide to Digital Video" by Peter Wells
"Odd and the Frost Giants" by Neil Gaiman
"Feeding Frenzy" by Will Self
"Subculture: The Meaning of Style" by Dick Hebdige
"Against Nature" by J. K. Huysmans
"Lascaux: Paintings and Engravings" by Annette Laming
"To Hell with Culture" by Herbert Read
"The Water Manifesto" by Riccardo Petrella
"Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones" by Bart Hopkin
"The Triumph of the Moon" by Ronald Hutton
"The Woodcuts of Albrecht Durer" by T. D. Barlow
"The Duino Elegies" by Rainer Maria Rilke
"A Concise History of Modern Painting" by Herbert Read
"On Historical Materialism" by Franz Mehring
"On the Pleasure of Hating" by William Hazlitt
"Europe's Inner Demons" by Norman Cohn
The Chambers Giant Paperback English Dictionary.
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (7th ed)
and about 50 others in a box that serves as a bedside table.
I tend to keep just a few books by the bed. Usually it'll be several staples for night-time reading when I'm too tired to concentrate on my current book, plus my current book
At the mo I have a Bill Bryson travel book, the collected interviews of Tom Waits, Ray Mears' Bushcraft, and the Fannie Flagg one I'm reading at the mo
Couldn't be done with that many books by the bed as the OP
At the mo I have a Bill Bryson travel book, the collected interviews of Tom Waits, Ray Mears' Bushcraft, and the Fannie Flagg one I'm reading at the mo
Couldn't be done with that many books by the bed as the OP
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
About 40 in the bedside cabinets - mostly stuff that needs to be shelved in the proper "library" in the spare room but I haven't got around to buying another bookshelf to start sorting everything out again.
Another 30 or so paperback novels still to be read have been banished to the landing outside after the then pile (only 15 at that stage so not quite rivalling the OP) actually did threaten to fall in on the occupants of the bed when shaken by the headboard
Another 30 or so paperback novels still to be read have been banished to the landing outside after the then pile (only 15 at that stage so not quite rivalling the OP) actually did threaten to fall in on the occupants of the bed when shaken by the headboard
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Eleven, and at least 2000 in the house including ones in the attic.
Threshers_Flail
Well-Known Member
2. One's already read, just being used as a coaster, other still being read.
Bed is the best place for reading.
Bed is the best place for reading.
northernhord
Active Member
None, I cant read in bed it makes me wanna sleep.
Kanda
Diving wanker
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
I actually counted them last night because of this thread... 
...I have 12, but 2 are already read and 3 are cookbooks ( 
)...and a similar number of my daughters books.
...I have 12, but 2 are already read and 3 are cookbooks ( )...and a similar number of my daughters books.AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday (half finished)
I usually have more, but my cleaner tidied them away.
I usually have more, but my cleaner tidied them away.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Really?
I'm sure people don't go to bed to sit up all night reading
But if you have good books by the bed you end up reading till 5 am
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Just the one for me.
It's this shit book about a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. It's boring as fuck but I'm ploughing on.
Why?
all shit books should be finished cause A) they might suprise you with a burst of quality at the end and b) if you ent finished it you are no position to slag it off with any accuracy
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