What is your DH reading atm?

[Caz10]

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!

[MayorNaze]

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

[seeker]

Me too.

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

[fishflange]

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

[alwayslookingforanswers]

Deadwater Deep (spelling?)

[LadyGlencoraPalliser]

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

[MmeGoblindt]

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.

[thumbscrewwitch]

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.

[TheWheelsOnTheBusHaveFallenOff]

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.

[defineme]

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.

[greenwoodpecker]

Triathlon monthly

Robertson Davies' The Salerton Trilogy

The Pose Method of Running

[LoveTheCarbs]

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..

[NorbertDentressangle]

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

[snickersnack]

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

[TheFallenMadonna]

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

[PheasantPlucker]

RHS monthly magazine

[francasaysrelax]

He is reading Zadie Smith's The Autograph man

[TheFoosa]

the last book he read was 'One Day' by David Nichols

[Flamebat]

dh is listening to wheel of time in audio book form.

if your dh wants to read mcnab what difference does it make to you .

DH pretty much only reads fantasy, he is happy with that, why would it affect me?

[ReneRusso]

My DH reads stuff I consider a bit samey (and trashy), James Rollins, John Case, Robert Goddard, Lee Child, Andrew Gross, Robert Harris but I have long since given up trying to broaden his outlook. One rare example of a book we both enjoyed was Timeline by Michael Crichton.

[Takver]

Mostly non fiction (same true for me too) - atm "Money, whence it came, where it went" by JK Galbraith, before that a book about growing brassicas.
Also a fair bit of sci-fi - he likes the 'Best Sci-fi stories of the year' type books with lots of short stories. And Christopher Brookmyer.
TBH our tastes overlap a lot, although I like fantasy more than he does, and I've yet to see him reading my Georgette Heyers

[RustyBear]

DH reads Robert E Howard, classic sci-fi like Robert Silverberg,the Godfather over and over, Sherlock Holmes, various Dr Who books.
However, he also writes Captain Scarlet and other Gerry Anderson/Dr Who crossover fanfic, so I'd hesitate to recommend following his lead...

[AliGrylls]

Riven, is Dark Tower any good? I loved the early Stephen King but I feel he has gone off the boil in recent years and have stopped buying as a result.

DH reads all sorts. He has just finished the Case of Exploding Mangoes.

[JANEITEluddite]

I am not Riven but The Dark Tower series is great. Very different to his other stuff and I soooo fancy Roland (the central character).

[FrameyMcFrame]

Micheal Palin autobiography, Halfway to Hollywood.