The problem with books in the bathroom is that once they've been in the bathroom, they're tainted for life. It's the same with magazines - if you take them in the bathroom they will always be branded as bathroom literature. This is why you never want to buy used books off of the internet - they've probably been read in the water closet.
A Japanese company has created a solution for this problem - just flush the book away. Koji Suzuki, the author of "The Ring" has put his new 9-chapter novella on toilet paper. Yes, that's right, toilet paper. Apparently the toilet has a history of horror in Japan. Bathrooms are, apparently, traditionally haunted in Japan and parents even tease their children about (and I'm not making this up) " a dark, hairy hand" that would reach up out of the toilet and pull them down "into the dark pool below." That sounds counter-intuitive to every potty-training method we have here in the United States.
The book is called "Drop" (stop giggling) and it is actually set in a public restroom. This is kind of like watching Jaws while on a boat, watching The Blair Witch Project in a forest, or watching The Grudge 2 in the midst of really bad actors and horrible screenwriters. The short story only takes up about 3 feet of the roll (measure it yourself at home, kids!) and can be read in one sitting, according to the manufacturer, Hayashi Paper. And it's only $2.20 a roll for the scariest time you've ever had in the loo (not including the time after that Taco Bell eating contest)!Now if I just knew how to read Japanese characters. . .
