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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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pointyhat · 01/11/2009 14:53

My dh doesn't read for pleasure. Not his thing.

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

cookielove · 01/11/2009 14:52

Dp reads alot of sci fi crap, er will go check what he is reading now

'the way between the worlds' by Ian Irvine

hannahsaunt · 01/11/2009 14:48

He also liked Malcom Gladwell's Blink.

hannahsaunt · 01/11/2009 14:47

Dh doesn't do fiction. In fact, he only seems to do (auto)biographies. (I tell a lie - the exception to the rule was proved as he worked his way through Harry Potter on the instruction of ds1). He's reading Barack Obama's Dreams of My Father at the moment.

JANEITEluddite · 01/11/2009 14:33

The Book Of Dave - I have no idea what it is about though, or what kind of book it is.

FritesMenthe · 01/11/2009 14:28

He likes Robert B Parker's 'Spencer' novels, but there are plenty of more popular authors (more the blood and guns variety) whose names escape me.

Just peeped at the bookshelf - several Ian Fleming's Bond novels.

My reading group just read The Seventhh Scroll by Wilbur Smith, which is in the Indiana Jones vein.

Katisha · 01/11/2009 14:24

DH takes the same Bill Bryson book on holiday with him every time and never opens it.
It's how we know we are on holiday.

seeker · 01/11/2009 14:22

Something black, with a gun, or possibly a helicopter, and a multicoloured flash on the cover.

I can't complain - I'm reading something pastel coloured with gold embossing on it.

My ds could be sent to get Mummy's book or Daddy's book at 18 months!

tethersend · 01/11/2009 14:21

The instructions for a microwave meal.

And his lips are moving.

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Caz10 · 01/11/2009 14:19

aaah mansfield park, can we swap BoneYard?!

FritesMenthe he might go for the American stuff - any good authors?

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FritesMenthe · 01/11/2009 14:18

Driving over lemons is a bit more intersting than the usual peter Mayle blah blah - there's about three in the series IIRC.

purepurple · 01/11/2009 14:18

He isn't.
He might read the tv mag if he has to.
Or Delia if he needs to find out how to cook something.
But books? No

FiveGoMadonTheDanceFloor · 01/11/2009 14:16

Around The Shipping Forecast, can't remember exactly what it is called, he has lined up next Driving Over Lemons.

FritesMenthe · 01/11/2009 14:16

DH tends to read sporting biographies and Philip Pullman fantasy type stuff. Also Sherlock Holmes and some American crime/detective novels.

BoneYard · 01/11/2009 14:15

Mansfield Park at the mo...

...that wasn't much help was it?

NoBiggy · 01/11/2009 14:14

A Haynes manual, probably.