That bible in your hotel room...

[Lost-in-FL]

if you had the option of having another book, which one would you choose?

[onager]

1. Oh, maybe this one...

http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Most-Hated-Woman-Gruesome/dp/0826418872/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209737659&sr=1-3

Or this one...


http://www.amazon.com/Tank-Girls-John-Hope/dp/1902579186/ref=pd_sim_b_img_2

:evilgrin:

[deepthought42]

2. THE good book, of course!

With THE ANSWER! Duh! :eyes:

[progressoid]

11. Wouldn't it be cool

to open a drawer in a hotel to see that? :)

[deepthought42]

25. As long as I don't have to listen to Vogon poetry...

;)

[YankeyMCC]

3. The Odyssey

Or the Iliad or even Aeneid - Most of my other favorite books it is kinda hard to just read a bit of and if I'm in a hotel reading a borrowed book I'm not likely to be able to read through so these ancient classics are good for selecting a bit out of to read.

Other good choices might be Backwoods Ethics: A Guide to Low-Impact Camping and Hiking" or "Wilderness Ethics: Preserving the Spirit of Wildness"
by Laura Waterman, Guy Waterman - I've read these both through although I don't own a copy, I read them when I stay at AMC huts and lodges :)

[cosmik debris]

4. Bibles in hotels are a hold over from the days before TV

When I was a working man (road warrior) I spent 60 to 80 nights a year in motels. If I did any reading at all it would be service manuals, tech literature, or maybe newspapers.

But TV has won the battle for leisure time now and the motel Bible seldom gets opened by anyone.

I did hear a useful suggestion for motel Bibles though. If you put the bible in the toilet tank, you can reduce water consumption with every flush. That's the best use I know of for a Bible.

Anyway, the answer to your question is HBO and the Weather Channel.

[YankeyMCC]

5. The toilet suggestion is excellent!

[moggie]

6. Or you could just hang it up by the toilet

I'm not sure how absorbent the paper is, but it'd do in an emergency.

[enlightenment]

7. I once used one to stabilize the little table on the balcony -

had to open it out to oh, mid-Exodus I think, to get the right height. Worked pretty well and I was able to eat my Chinese take-away without worrying about the noodles sliding into my lap.

[skepticscott]

13. Yes, but

reading the Song of Solomon is a cheaper way to get your jollies than paying 11.95 for a porn movie, so we can thank the Gideons for that...

[Lost-in-FL]

17. LOL!!!! n/t

[Exultant Democracy]

22. You would have to put it in something water proof to make sure it doesn't disintegrate

you also have to make sure it doesn't shift around too much and yes I will be doing this from now on.

[chicagomd]

8. True story:

As an undergraduate I taught camping, outdoor survival skills, etc at my college. While walking to our van to departure I was given a copy of the new testament by one of the many campus religious groups. I put it in my pocket for some reason...

That night we were making a fire and out came the new testament. While I cannot say how well bible pages absorb feces, they do com-bust quite well. One of the students tried to stop me (verbally and then physically) so I looked right at her and said:

"Is your faith in god in your heart and mind or on these pieces of old trees?"

Ahhhh, the joys of the false choice fallacy. Just another joyful step on the long road to Hell.

[FiveGoodMen]

9. Years ago my mother gave me a bullet. I put it in my breast pocket.

Some time after that, I was walking down the street when a berserk evangelist heaved a Gideon Bible out of a hotel room window...

Bible would have gone through my heart if it wasn't for the bullet.

-- Woody Allen.

[and-justice-for-all]

10. "Why I am not a christian" - Bertrand Russell

Or "Letter to a christian Nation" - Sam Harris

[progressoid]

12. I don't think many hotel bibles have ever been opened.

I've made a point to look for them and they usually look untouched.

I guess people already know God's word so well or have their own travel copy with them that they don't need to use the hotel version. :eyes:

[JNelson6563]

14. In a pinch they serve as pretty decent

rolling trays, hardcovers work better than soft you know.

Julie

[vixengrl]

15. The Illuminatus Trilogy.

I have reread that book every year for several years. My paperback got so grizzled I taped every bit of it, and then got a new copy, ostensibly for the benefit of my hubby--who in turn never had the time to read it. I think a cursory read could make many people wonder what it is they really believe--politically or whatever else. It is teh awesum and teh funny. It was weird and conspiratorial and pagan and atheist and agnostic and lefist and libertarian and anarchist and all that even before the internets were. Good for Wilson and Shea, to have made such a multi-faceted work that was so irreverent, funny, strange, that an engaged mind could dig it the most and keep digging.

[onager]

16. fnord

:hi:

I also liked the "sequel," where they said: "We made it all up! Quit writing us about all the 23's in your life, morons!"

My copies are moldering away with the rest of my stuff in storage. Like you, I think I wore out one set, then found another in a used-book store.

[Deep13]

18. How To Mine Diamonds in this Hotel Room

It would be slightly more useful than the Bible.

[NMMNG]

19. Good question

There is actually a hotel that ditched the standard nightstand Bibles in favor of a "spiritual menu" of different books people could choose from and have delivered to their room. So far there are no selections for atheists and no non-religious books available :-( , but the variety is a nice start however. At least they're no longer pushing the standard Christian Bible.

I think a small library of books (and maybe magazines) at every hotel would be a great idea. That way nobody would have to worry getting to their room and finding something they didn't like or had already read. They could choose whatever suited their taste from the selection and borrow it for the duration of their stay.

[Fox Mulder]

20. The God Delusion.

[TexasBushwhacker]

21. But it's great for insomnia! n/t

[eek MD]

23. I once left my copy of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" setting on top of it in the drawer....

I figured it'd be a much more interesting read, and I was already finished with it... :)

[dropkickpa]

24. This one

http://www.bathroomreader.com/product.asp?specific=395

[TechBear_Seattle]

26. I've started leaving books in hotel rooms

Specifically, books I've registered with BookCrossing, usually some type of science fiction but occasionally tourist guides for the city I'm visiting. I have a lot of short story anthologies and "bathroom break books" with one and two page trivia articles. Leave them in the same drawer as the Bible so housekeeping doesn't remove them.

(If you think BookCrossing looks fun and you want to register, say that TechBear referred you :hi: )

[pauliedangerously]

27. Hotel room? "Joy of Sex" Hands down

I love my atheism!!

[LucyParsons]

28. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

Or, The God Delusion