Which Books Could You Substitute for Loo Roll?

[K12beano]

To be contrary to our other great threads - and going on from something I just heard on the radio....

What would you nominate to fulfil a secondary important roll/role should this stock-piling and shortages continue?

From another thread - I immediately thought of the end of books in Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) - and then thought how terrible a thought that was...


Anyone else with better ideas?

[Goaty Bill 2]

[Laurel Green]

[rev-erend]

Never mind books.

Any paper produced by Rupert Murdock should do nicely.

[K12beano]

^^^

[DaveTheRave87]

Don't say they're anything but a public service.

[coppice]

rev-erend said:

Never mind books.

Any paper produced by Rupert Murdock should do nicely.

At least we Times readers can actually spell Murdoch ...

[rev-erend]

coppice said:

rev-erend said:

Never mind books.

Any paper produced by Rupert Murdock should do nicely.

At least we Times readers can actually spell Murdoch ...

[psi310398]

rev-erend said:

coppice said:

rev-erend said:

Never mind books.

Any paper produced by Rupert Murdock should do nicely.

At least we Times readers can actually spell Murdoch ...

But presumably the Times digital only subscribers will have to wash their fingers particularly carefully..?

[Nimby]

Am I doing this right?

[FunkyNige]

At the risk of taking this game too seriously...
The Dune books after Dune were all long and boring.
Catch-22, also long and boring plus everyone seems to have a copy

[psi310398]

FunkyNige said:

At the risk of taking this game too seriously...
The Dune books after Dune were all long and boring.
Catch-22, also long and boring plus everyone seems to have a copy

Good calls.

À la recherche du temps perdu runs to seven volumes in French. The paper in the old NRF edition is pleasingly tough but absorbent. By far the best use for dear Marcel's utterly pretentious and ballsachingly dull work. And, yes, I have read three of the volumes which is four too many.

[coppice]

FunkyNige said:

At the risk of taking this game too seriously...
The Dune books after Dune were all long and boring.
Catch-22, also long and boring plus everyone seems to have a copy

I can accept 'boring' as a valid ground for criticism (even if Catch 22 is anything but) but 'long ' ? If it's a good book , such as Donna Tartt's sublime The Goldfinch , even its 784 pages was too short .

[RC1807]

Anything by Dan Brown?.... The author's name is someway there, but the books' contents...

[anonymous-user]

psi310398 said:

FunkyNige said:

At the risk of taking this game too seriously...
The Dune books after Dune were all long and boring.
Catch-22, also long and boring plus everyone seems to have a copy

Good calls.

À la recherche du temps perdu runs to seven volumes in French. The paper in the old NRF edition is pleasingly tough but absorbent. By far the best use for dear Marcel's utterly pretentious and ballsachingly dull work. And, yes, I have read three of the volumes which is four too many.

Volume 4 is where it gets going, you've missed out

[plasticpig]

Anything by Clive Cussler. Complete and utter bilge.

[psi310398]

swiveleyedgit said:

Volume 4 is where it gets going, you've missed out

I think it's fair to say, however you consider the merits of Proust, that getting going is not one of his most notable strengths, so Vol 4 onwards perfectly suitable fare for the purposes of this thread.

[coppice]

The complete works of Dan Brown , Jeffrey Archer and just about anything with the letters SAS in the title would be a damn good start ....

[robm3]

I really didn't like George W Bush's Autobiography Decision Points. Just poorly written. And usually I love political biographies.

[psi310398]

robm3 said:

I really didn't like George W Bush's Autobiography Decision Points. Just poorly written. And usually I love political biographies.

But you undervalue the curiosity value of a publisher thinking that the notion of GWB writing at all was remotely credible. On a more realistic level, I'd love to know who the poor ghost writer was who had to turn Bush's oral gibberish into publishable text. I'd buy him a drink - he'll need it.