She described Italian prisons as "pretty swell", with a library, a television in her room, a bathroom and a reading lamp.

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Crawl inside and you will find a futon spread over a tatami-mat floor, with a small television and reading lamp mounted on the wall.

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The bed seemed the perfect place to curl up with a book in the evening (the suites are blessedly sans televisions), but the dim lighting, which so added to the cabinlike feel earlier, and the weak bedside lamp made reading a spine-curving challenge (my only complaint about the suite).

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Presumably, said Mr Roberts, you must first turn on the lamp and pick up your reading glasses?

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Once home, he has a battery-powered radio and uses a small kerosene lamp to pass time at night reading.

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But when you crawl into the chair and reach up to turn on the lamp, you make two discoveries: The bulb in the lamp is more suited as a night light than a reading light.

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