Does your dh read ANY fiction?

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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?

Kbear's post, besides making me brought to mind the fact that dh does seem to factor in quite a lot of serial killer histories

Is this gender or not then?

My dh loves science fiction and fantasy novels, infact dd2 is named after a character in a novel we both read

My Mum jokes that the only book my dad has ever read is a First Aid manual. Sad but true.

Mr Ruffallo reads Joseph Heller, Charles Bukowski and Hemingway.
Makes him sound quite macho doesn't it?

The Duke has read everything that was published before we had children. Favourites would be Wodehouse, Umberto Eco and probably Asterix.

he does. REALLY
SLOWLY. v unreasonably it drives me bats. "are you still reading that???????" etc.

ah. that was wierd. my dashes to indicate xtreme slowness were read as crossings out.... well, you get the idea.

Yes, mine does - but he's an English graduate so novel-enabled from an impressionable age
Currently enjoying Hilary Mantel, Sherlock Holmes stories, Kate Atkinson, and is after my Jonathan Coe (which he bought me for Christmas )
His big favourites generally are PG Wodehouse, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Michael Chabon, Richard Ford.

yes. tom clancy andy mcnab esq he is ofcourse the greatest LOTR fan i think he knows the Elvish songs....in Elvish

Nope, NONE!!!

He loves it if I read to him, but says he cannot read fiction at all. As in, he actually can't read it

He happily listens to any kind of play, or book on Radio 4.

He reads manuals, factual things, all of the above that you mention. No fiction at all. I wish he could. I think it would do him good to be absorbed and 'taken' somewhere else for an hour or two occasionally.

ALthough, I bought him the SAS survival guide for christmas and he was well and truly absorbed in how to build a bivawack (sp?) and how to make an underground oven and cook nats testicles in yaks pee...

oh, custy, I'm so sorry
Songs in Elvish indeed, you poor woman

blimey. that could be number one in the particulars of unreasonable behaviour in a divorce petition (should the need ever arise...)

"he persisted in singing songs in elvish, despite being aware that this caused me untold mental distress and despite my pleading with him to stop.... on occassions too numerous to particularise"

Dh is another monster reader - including being very good at finding & giving me books I hadn't spotted. (Though his own taste runs to angsty stuff like Paul Auster, which I can see far enough. There is worse though - in the last couple of years he's got keen on contemporary poetry)

my DH is OBSESSED with books. truly, obsessed. I mean, I love books and reading, but he is something else entirely. We bought something like 150 large boxes of books and CDs with us to NZ, the container people underestimated just how much we could have crammed into a 2 bedroom flat and it only just all went in. Only to discover when my parents' container arrived a few months back, that we had another 20 boxes stored in their garage....

whilst he reads fiction, he doesn't read much that's contemporary. he is also perfectly capable of sitting on the bus reading Aristophanes, or Sappho, like an utter ponce. He also reads great big enormous serious books on history, and classical music.

He is so esoteric that he has an MA in Arthurian Literature.

Meanwhile, at the moment I can only manage old school stories, pony books, and crap mages

have to confess neither of us are "huge" readers (despite having over 1000 books in the house!) - and DH hardly picks up any books - although he did read Lady Chatterly's (sp) Lover while we were away recently!

DH reads a lot of fiction, but he did an English degree which probably helped. He is reading The Janissary Tree at the moment. He takes much longer to read a book than I do, but never gives up halfway through even if he is hating it, which I find completely weird - he swore his way through the Interpretation of Murder recently, to the point where I wanted to say 'just stop reading it for fecks sake' but no, he had to finish it. So he could definitively declare it to be crap, one assumes.

yes but not consistently.

He'll go on binges during a holiday and carry on to finish what he was reading (currently the Kite runner and Snow back to back).

Then gets tied up in work and too exhausted to be consistent and reverts to non fiction (history - sociology and other factual stuff easier to stick to when you only reading a couple of pages every other day)

He'll periodically dig out old books and buy new ones and spend the whole weekend getting started (about 50 pages) but DS will bounce on his belly and start a fight and they'll pile up on his bedside table.

Latest book was a crimbo pressy from me. 'How to Fossilise your Hamster' and 101 other etc.etc.
He also reads fiction, sci. fi., subscribes to science, flying and pc magazines.
We both read at the table when we don't have guests.
He evn comes and reads over my shoulder and read MN when I start laughing too much.

Unless you count anything to do with Nintendo... no. He did read the Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell and thought it was amazing (I couldn't handle it personally) but that was oh god about 10 - 15 years ago. I've yet to see the man finish a novel. Tried him on The Name of The Rose which if he gave it a chance he would love, but no... he prefers playing the guitar and writing songs

Susie get him on the Jeremy Clarkson books. They are so funny.

My DH always has a book on the go. They are not books I would read - stuff like Grisham, Ludlum, Deaver, De Mille, Matthew Reilly etc - but it makes me really really happy that he does. Not many men in my romantic past were readers and it is something that I am passionate about so ... What I find doubly impressive is that English is not my DH's 1st language - he is German and he only left Germany when he was 22, but he reads all books in English by choice - many of our German friends don't.

The only fiction DH has ever read is a cowboy novel written by his grandmother!!!

He reads birdbooks, OS maps and Haynes car manuals for fun!

When I first met DH 20 years ago he didn't read fiction at all, partly because he probably is an undiagnosed dyslexic and didn't learn to read until he was over 10.

Then he started reading novels on holiday usually crime books I had taken with me.

He now he always has a fiction book on the go. He still reads electronic or computer books and the odd biography but now I usually chose his books in the library and most of them he reads. He likes, Michael Crichton, Michael Connely, Andy Mcnab, Clive Cussler. He has also read Harry Potter and the Northern Lights trilogy.