well, my dh is usually the same way, although he did "read" the davinci code (actually audio book.. does that count?lol... he was so proud of himself, i had to support him!)
He has been more interested in book lately and has been picking up things naval related.
I actually enjoy some guy lit: mike gayle is great and so is Nick Hornby (About a Boy, High Fidelity)
My DH has enjoyed some of Jimmy Buffett's books. But he usually prefers non-fiction. My DS enjoys Robert B. Parker, Richard Jordan's "Wheel of Time" books & Lawrence Block's books.
My dh is not a reader. He reads one book a year, maybe. He'll take one on vacation with us for a beach read. He reads almost exclusively non-fiction.
As a librarian in a HS I find that boys like NF as a general rule. For fiction they seem to like fanatasy more than girls. My ds, age 10 likes fantasy as well. The boys in my school also really flock to the graphic novels. I'd say the ratio of boys to girls for those books is about 8:2.
My Dad is strictly a non-fiction reader - usually war biographies, battles, etc. - but he finally expanded his reading experience a few years ago and reads other non-fiction. One of his favorite was about a woman who crossed the outback of Australia with only one guide. It was well-written and funny as well. My youger brother used to read only non-fiction (sports, organized crime, old West) but he got started on Western fiction and can't seem to get enough of it. Can't tell you how many books a week he reads but is up most of the night reading. Older brother reads non-fiction once in a while.
Dh is NOT a reader. His favorite thing to read is the morning newspaper (the Daily Herald), and on Thursdays he reads the weekly village newspaper (Hoffman Estates Review). MAYBE he reads about one book a year; he has No One Here Gets Out Alive (a bio of Jim Morrison from The Doors), a book with Mike Royko's (the Chicago newspaper columnist who died awhile back) columns collected in it, a book by BillCosby about marriage and fatherhood, and a book by that newspaper reporter Peter Jennings on the shelf. (Dh has Neurofibromatosis type I like middle dd, and a seizure disorder as well....so I'm sure that he has attention issues when it comes to things like reading.)
Ds reads slightly more than dh, but he'd rather be out skateboarding, swimming, playing basketball/baseball/football rather than sitting down with a book. That said, when he does read, it's stuff like Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, Freud's book of Dream Interpretation, or Elie Wiesel's trilogy Night/Dawn/The Accident.
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well, my dh is usually the same way, although he did "read" the davinci code (actually audio book.. does that count?lol... he was so proud of himself, i had to support him!)
He has been more interested in book lately and has been picking up things naval related.
I actually enjoy some guy lit: mike gayle is great and so is Nick Hornby (About a Boy, High Fidelity)
I love Nick Hornby!
My dh normally doesn't like to read books, but I caught him reading A Million Little Pieces.
He used to read a lot of Stephen King and Clive Barker.
I'm embarrassed to say my DH reads waaaay more than I do!
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My DH has enjoyed some of Jimmy Buffett's books. But he usually prefers non-fiction. My DS enjoys Robert B. Parker, Richard Jordan's "Wheel of Time" books & Lawrence Block's books.
Liz
Liz
My dh is not a reader. He reads one book a year, maybe. He'll take one on vacation with us for a beach read. He reads almost exclusively non-fiction.
As a librarian in a HS I find that boys like NF as a general rule. For fiction they seem to like fanatasy more than girls. My ds, age 10 likes fantasy as well. The boys in my school also really flock to the graphic novels. I'd say the ratio of boys to girls for those books is about 8:2.
My Dad is strictly a non-fiction reader - usually war biographies, battles, etc. - but he finally expanded his reading experience a few years ago and reads other non-fiction. One of his favorite was about a woman who crossed the outback of Australia with only one guide. It was well-written and funny as well. My youger brother used to read only non-fiction (sports, organized crime, old West) but he got started on Western fiction and can't seem to get enough of it. Can't tell you how many books a week he reads but is up most of the night reading. Older brother reads non-fiction once in a while.
Donna
Dh is NOT a reader. His favorite thing to read is the morning newspaper (the Daily Herald), and on Thursdays he reads the weekly village newspaper (Hoffman Estates Review). MAYBE he reads about one book a year; he has No One Here Gets Out Alive (a bio of Jim Morrison from The Doors), a book with Mike Royko's (the Chicago newspaper columnist who died awhile back) columns collected in it, a book by BillCosby about marriage and fatherhood, and a book by that newspaper reporter Peter Jennings on the shelf. (Dh has Neurofibromatosis type I like middle dd, and a seizure disorder as well....so I'm sure that he has attention issues when it comes to things like reading.)
Ds reads slightly more than dh, but he'd rather be out skateboarding, swimming, playing basketball/baseball/football rather than sitting down with a book. That said, when he does read, it's stuff like Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, Freud's book of Dream Interpretation, or Elie Wiesel's trilogy Night/Dawn/The Accident.
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