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What is your DH reading atm?

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Caz10 · 01/11/2009 14:13

DH reads utter tripe, Andy McNab and so on. I am on a campaign to get him to read a bit more widely and he is open to suggestion but I'm not sure where to start with books that guys would like, mine are all very relationshipy!
Any suggestions appreciated!

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PheasantPlucker · 01/11/2009 17:42

RHS monthly magazine

TheFallenMadonna · 01/11/2009 17:38

A History of Technology? - or something like that anyway.

snickersnack · 01/11/2009 17:35

DH mostly reads the FT, The Economist and the Guardian. Current book on the go is D-Day by the guy who wrote Stalingrad whose name escapes me. His preferred reading is historical biography or straight history, with the very occasional foray into fiction if it's John Le Carre

NorbertDentressangle · 01/11/2009 17:29

He's reading Mark Haddon's A Spot of Bother (if I've remembered it correctly)

LoveTheCarbs · 01/11/2009 17:26

DH reads a lot and he suggests:

The Flashman books by George MacDonald Fraser

The Master and Commander books by Patrick O'Brian

Post Office by Bukowsky ( a real blokey book says my DH)

Burr by Gore Vidal (American history about the civil war but with a bit of a yarn about it)

But I suppose it just depends on what he likes..

greenwoodpecker · 01/11/2009 16:02

Triathlon monthly

Robertson Davies' The Salerton Trilogy

The Pose Method of Running

defineme · 01/11/2009 16:01

Are you sure that yours are that good? Describing them as 'relationshipy' doesn't make them sound very good! I don't know who Andy Mcnab is.
I didn't find 'Perfume' to be a male type of book-just a very well written one (at the beginning at least).
Why don't both of you start off with the Booker prize shortlist-it's reduced on The Book People at the moment and you can't get more current fiction than that.

TheWheelsOnTheBusHaveFallenOff · 01/11/2009 16:00

I reckon say it's a good idea for men to read if you want your sons to read. many boys do not read for pleasure, seeing their dads engrossed in a good book might be one way to help with that.

Ian Rankin's Rebus novels, or Christopher Brookmyre might go down well.

thumbscrewwitch · 01/11/2009 15:53

mine reads the sports pages on line and that's about it, tbh. He doesn't really "do" books unless they're biographies of his favourite bands, like Kiss and Guns'n'Roses and Motley Crue.

MmeGoblindt · 01/11/2009 15:49

Autobiography of Warren Buffet, but I don't think he will finish it as it is really long.

He has Dreams of My Father and Audacity of Hope from Obama lined up next, as I thought they were very good.

I often buy autobiographies, he reads them more than fiction.

He enjoyed the one about the two English sisters in Liguria, Extra Virgin and the followup books from Annie Hawes.

I think the only non-fiction that I have seen him reading was Bridges of Madison County. Probably cause it was short, and I raved about it.

sarah293 · 01/11/2009 15:42

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LadyGlencoraPalliser · 01/11/2009 15:40

The Navy in the Peninsular War.
But he would secretly rather be reading Sharpe's Havoc.

alwayslookingforanswers · 01/11/2009 15:37

Deadwater Deep (spelling?)

fishflange · 01/11/2009 15:24

Superbike
Fast bike
Classic bike

sensing a theme here?

fgs if he wants to read he will, if he doesn't then find something more interesting to worry about

seeker · 01/11/2009 15:23

Me too.

There's a Victoria version too that my grandfather was fond of. Definition of a wedding - Aisle. Altar. Hymn.

MayorNaze · 01/11/2009 15:23

dh is reading hte latest dan brown. usually he is not fond of fiction though, he likes political commentarys and weird shit

pointyhat · 01/11/2009 15:20

urgh, cringe-a-rama, seeks. I wince at that sort of prim female attitude.

seeker · 01/11/2009 15:15

"
Why are you on a campign to make yours read more? I cannot think of a good motive."

Because, as Jeremy hardy says, women regard men as work in progress!

seeker · 01/11/2009 15:14

Ohh I love RobertB Parker's Spencer books too, whoever said their dp reads them. They are SOOO not boys only books - give them a try!

(one of my favourite pasta recipes is one that Spencer made in one of the books!)

cyanarasamba · 01/11/2009 15:05

Matter - Ian M Banks

He only does scifi

JANEITEluddite · 01/11/2009 15:01

My dp liked Perfume. His favourite books are:
A Clockwork Orange
Catch 22
John Updike's Rabbit series
The Mayor Of Casterbridge

moshchops · 01/11/2009 15:00

Fishing magazines and fishing catalogues, its all about fishing ... pah

alana39 · 01/11/2009 14:59

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, Perfume by Patrick Suskind (sp?) - both things we've read in my book club over the last year which I liked but most of the women said were blokes' books. They are very well written but really easy to read as well. And a mix of funny and quite poor taste. Am trying to get my DH to read - instead of books about scalextrix or the playmobil catalogue

KurriKurri · 01/11/2009 14:57

Mine doesn't do fiction really either, at the moment he's reading a book called Quantum, which he says is about the golden age of physics, a History of the Scottish borders, and Alan Davies autobiography.

He'll also listen to Ian Rankin books on audiotape in the car.

My grown up son has recently finished The boy in Striped Pyjamas, and I think he's reading something by Joseph Conrad at the moment. He's also very keen on Richard Dawkins' books.

spudmasher · 01/11/2009 14:55

Blind Faith- Ben Elton. Bleak vision of the future.He love it.

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