[net.books] Reading in Bed

madrid@auvax.UUCP (06/27/83)

 
 
It looks as if the rain will never stop here.  But what better way to
enjoy a stormy night than with a good book?  And where better than in
bed?  Right now, the bed is Edwardian brass; the quilt a Hutterite (see
net.religion) wool comforter; the book, the autobiography of V.
Stefannson (Arctic explorer); the tea, Lapsang Souchong; and the apples,
Macintosh.  
  
Are there others out there who enjoy RIB as much as I do?  When? How?
Why? Where? What?  What refinements do you add to this most refined
of pleasures?  What books have you most enjoyed?  (My all-time favorite:
Wilkie Collins' "The Woman in White".  Are there other Collins lovers
in net.books?  If so, see net.travel. By the way, I have a Dover copy
of his "Tales of Terror and the Supernatural" that I haven't read:
even though it's supposed to be very good, I don't relish being scared.)
 
                                               R.
 

TOPAZ:fantods@ucbvax.UUCP (06/29/83)

I can't read in bed.  I end up staying up all night, trying to
FINISH THAT NOVEL!  So I have taken over the living room couch,
which has a fairly massive "scholar's mistress" on it,
and a table with lamp next to it, and a stereo across the way,
and a lap-cat to act as book-prop.  The cat will probably have
spinal difficulties someday as a result of propping up everything
and anything readable.  I like either a cup of good coffee
in the morning, or a glass of Stolichnaya in the evening.

My life seems to go through periods of intense activities
and harried schedules, followed by periods of reading five hours
a night and letting everything else go to the birds.
That's why I like the weather in the  Bay Area.  It only gets
obnoxiously sunny for a month or two out of the year,
the rest of the time is a monotonous overcast that lends itself
well as an excuse to stay inside and read.

Support your Public Library.  It needs all the help it can get.

Richard Moorman

ucbesvax.turner@ucbcad.UUCP (07/01/83)

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ucbesvax!turner    Jun 30 03:49:00 1983


Re: reading in bed

One of life's great pleasures.  How many winter vacations I have spent,
becoming pale and wan, enervated and sickly, and completely negligent
of my appearance (which for me, is a whole lot!), while reading in bed.

But I tend to marathons, be they hacking or reading.  In either case,
caffeine is a vital ingredient.  But forget food, for the most part.

What I like to read in bed: anarchist pamphlets (from Black and Red press,
or Canada's Black Rose press), Spiderman comics, the newspaper, Philip
K. Dick, computer books, and Destroyer novels.

By my bedside tonight (which is where I wish I were) are

    "Corridors of Power", C.P. Snow
    "FIG-Forth Systems Guide", Dr. Ting (from FIG)
    "Hungary '56", A. Anderson (Black & Red)
    "High-Speed Memory Systems", Pohm & Agrawal
    Two issues of The Amazing Spiderman (Marvel)
    Last month's issue of Mother Jones

	Michael Turner
	ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner

jack@hp-dcd.UUCP (07/04/83)

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hp-dcd!jack    Jul  2 20:40:00 1983

I love to read in bed, but *boy* does my wife love it!
I cringe if she enters the bedroom with a book,
'cause it means that the light will be on until 4AM at least.
Ahem.  The price one pays for an intellectual mate.

				-Jack Applin

P.S.:
   Doesn't do our "family" life much good either...