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Does your dh read ANY fiction?

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keeptakingthetablets · 14/01/2008 22:24

Or is it all fishing, WWII, books with titles like 'The Illustrated History of Marmite', biographies, AutoTrader, and the back of the shampoo bottle in the bathroom?

DH point blank refuses to read fiction, sees no point in it at all, thinks there's enough fact in the world for one man to absorb without stuffing his head full of other people's fantasies (Doesn't stop him watching Sky News occasionally, is all I have to say).

It's not any sort of issue, he can read what he likes, but I find it bemusing - is this a universal trait, or is he a die-hard cave-boy?

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brimfull · 14/01/2008 22:25

I don't think it's a gender issue,some poeple are just not interested in reading at all.

I would die if I couldn't read but horses for courses or whatever

FlameNFurter · 14/01/2008 22:25

Oodles - mainly fantasy type stuff (Robin Hobb, Trudi Canavan, Terry Pratchett etc), but he reads as much as he can get his hands on.

Hulababy · 14/01/2008 22:25

DH reads novels most evenings - we tend to read in bed for a whil most nights. He prefers fiction to biographies, but will read the odd magazine too such as Golf Monthly or Top Gear.

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sophiewd · 14/01/2008 22:27

DH is an avid if slow reader of fiction he does do the Flashman/Sharpe novels but also Jasper Fforde, Pratchett, thrillers, just finishing Agent Zigzag then going onto Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, and of course the many, many, many back coppies of The Shooting Times which he won't let me get rid of.

Quattrocento · 14/01/2008 22:28

For fiction, you could have substituted books.

It's not that he's illiterate, you understand. He's a lawyer. So he's not illiterate, or not very. He just doesn't read.

hana · 14/01/2008 22:29

dh reads a lot on his train into London, reads all sorts of things - I get lots of books from library for him!

fishie · 14/01/2008 22:29

i don't think dh has read any fiction at all ever. he does read, but not books. all online, newspapers, picture type books with ds. hmm well when we met he was reading a biog of andy warhol but it went mouldy

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keeptakingthetablets · 14/01/2008 22:29

He loves to read, don't get me wrong, he reads as much as I do - but no fiction, not a word. The nearest he's come to appreciation of fiction was when we were reading 'Heidi' to the dds - he didn't fall asleep

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DrNortherner · 14/01/2008 22:30

My dh refuses to read fiction too. He only reads golf mags, sporting books and atlas's.

DontCallMeBaby · 14/01/2008 22:30

Science fiction. If it's not got a space ship or a shiney robot or something - not interested. Also reads to DD, is not a patch on me for 'doing the voices'.

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keeptakingthetablets · 14/01/2008 22:31
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Kbear · 14/01/2008 22:31

No, not at all but he does now how to murder someone and get away with it, how to murder his wife and dispose of the body, how to do a bank job etc etc.

Kbear · 14/01/2008 22:31

know how, not now how!!

Dinosaur · 14/01/2008 22:32

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ingles2 · 14/01/2008 22:34

Nope,...no fiction, just Macuser or icreate...(shakes her head in wonder and disbelief icon)

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keeptakingthetablets · 14/01/2008 22:35

I just see him sitting there with his Illustrated History Of Marmite, and think, "You have no SOUL".

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Tnog · 14/01/2008 22:38

Wilbur Smith's latest offering is perched by the bed. I think dh has read 2 pages so far.

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PavlovtheCat · 14/01/2008 22:41

DH reads endless endless endless fiction, and listens to audiobooks too (or mostly these days) - stuff like Iain M Banks, Neil Gaiman, some sci-fi fantasy stuff...I dont think he reads any non-fiction actually...

fishie · 14/01/2008 22:42

i bought him bill bryson history of everything two xmas ago. it is still sitting beside the bed because he doesn't know what to do with it. i will enquire.

Cremolafoam · 14/01/2008 22:42

micromart and A level alegebra revision book 2.for no other reason other than it sends him to sleep. other popular topics include C++ ,spy gadgets for evil geniuses, and top gear magazine.
not a feckin novel in sight.

di'nt realise it was not unusual.i thought he was a freak!

moljam · 14/01/2008 22:43

my dh never reads anything at all which i think is very bad especially as dc have noticed.i know he can read but he just doesnt!i dont get it as have always ALWAYS loved reading and try to encourage dc also

LynetteScavo · 14/01/2008 22:44

No! He reads every single weekly copy of Autosport form cover to cover though!

DH did start reading a book I'd jsut finished on holiday. He explained he want;ed to know why Ihadn't spoken to him for 3 days.

PeachesMcLean · 14/01/2008 22:49

DH mostly read Clive Cussler, Dirk Pitt and similar such like until we got married and he got into reading "proper" books whilst we were on honeymoon. Used to look for things which were Booker or Whitbread nominated. See the good influence I had on him?

Sadly it was just a phase...