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?

LOL at OS maps - why do they do that?

Do you get the audible commentary too?

"Apparently there's an old graveyard at the foot of Ben Nevis.....I didn't know that..."

my dh loves fiction

I once knew someone whose DH used to read the Argos catalogue in bed at night.

I do that with Next

Yes and it is all crap.

Ditto MB.

But he'll also pick up my books and read them, complaining loudly about how dull they are. But he still reads them. He is currently whinging his way through Dorothy L Sayers to try to understand my strange passion for Lord Peter Wimsey.

He says that once he starts, he has to finish.

Except when he bought 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' in an airport bookshop. That remains (less than) half read...

No - the last fiction I can remember him reading was Nick Hornby's High Fidelity (I bought it for him because I thought he would like it) on holiday when ds1 was 13 months old (he's almost 11 now). He reads PC Nerd Monthly and Computer Geek World avidly and he reads scientific papers and journals etc. for work (he's a microbiologist) but no fiction.

Oh, I bought him Ian Curtis' biography for Christmas - he's on page 35. I think part of it is that he reads quite slowly - so maybe reading is more of an effort (I'm a very fast reader and I race though books - I'm not sure I'd be so keen on reading if it took me as long as him). Have I just made him sound really thick? Do you all have an image now of him mouthing the words as he reads ?

DH does. Not as much or as fast as I do but then I don't know many people that do. He tends to read books I like and then go off on a riff with that author for months on end. He also reads non-fiction that I struggle with - I have him the Biograpy of London by Peter Ackroyd and he loved it whereas I think I got marooned about page 30. He never abandons a book, it's a moral thing