what sort of books do men read.

[eleanor2]

we have had an account from clunk.but what sort of books do the men in your life read.last night i finished reading and was going to sleep.hubby had picked up a book to read.all i could hear every few minutes was hubby laughing to himself.i dint ask what he was laughing at.in the end he couldnt resist reading a paragraph out of his book.the book was actually one i bought him for his birthday. the secret diary of grumpy old men.he is finding it hilarious.maybe a good buy for pressie for a man.he has just finished a bear gryls book.he has the flying scotsman and kite runner in his draw for his next read.i know is fave book was about a man who left the world behind behind. called, into the wild.he died living on a bus in the wilds of canada.not sure if it was starvation or what.but it was a survival book and he loved it.

[Clunkshift]

Books for men to read, chuckle over and annoy their wives by reading parts out loud:

Playing the Moldovans at Tennis, A Piano in the Pyrenees and Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Notes from a Small Island, Neither Here Nor There, Notes from a Big Country, The Lost Continent and A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Vroom With A View: In Search of Italy's Dolce Vita on a '61 Vespa by Peter Moore

Merde Actually, A Year in the Merde and Merde Happens by Stephen Clarke

Any Terry Pratchett books.

[sandybay]

It's not just men who drive their partner's mad by reading out loud Clunk.

My OH also likes history and military history from all periods. If there's any conflict in the world he'll always know the background to the situation

He reads classics, American cop novels, light reading is Agatha Christie.
He used to read a lot ofTrollope and is a great fan of the Dance to the Music of Time books by Antony Powell [all 12 of them].

For comfort reading if he's stressed he resorts to steam train books and even stuff about 1950's buses ! Embarrassing really and not a great aphrodisiac at bedtime.

Generally though, if I recommend a book he does not read it. Men !
Not that I would recommend chick-lit or romance because I don't read them.

Why have I got a glum face at top of my post ????

[franbee]

I read 'notes from a small island' and kept OH awake laughing.

[eleanor2]

oh fran so its you keeping hubby awake.my hubby wouldnt be interested in my books so i dont bother.the only time i make hime aware of what i am reading is when i am sobbing my heart out.saying"why did he have to die."i cried when llewelyn ap gryfford and simon de montford the second died.cried in jane austin to it s quite intense the love jane and mr rochester have.

[baab95]

My OH tends to read more non-fiction than anything else. He loved Nathaniel's Nutmeg (and anything else by Giles Martin), the Surgeon of Crowthorn, and Great Tales from English History (Robert Lacey). He's still reading the latter, and keeps interrupting my reading to recount some anecdote. I must admit it has me intrigued & I think I'll probably read it when he's done.

[eleanor2]

my hubby is still chuckling away at night has he reads some more of the book Grumpy old men.it keeps getting mentioned in the media for diffrent resons too.such as one of the men on strictly come dancing is featured in the book.it really might make a good christmas present for the man in your life.i have never known a book make my hubby laugh so much.

[jazzactivist]

My OH works as a literature officer, and mainly seems to read very heavy, large tomes of contemporary literature and biographies of writers, interspersed with books written by men about music fan life in the 1970s! He has just completed reading a second biography about the lives of the Wordsworths, and read bits out to me fairly constantly. I could have lived with them... He has also just finished Pies and Prejudice by the Radio 2DJ Stuart Maconie, and I felt that I could have lived in Wigan too! His current read is "Gig" by the poet Simon Armitage, about his musical tastes and attempts to resurrect a pop band that he started as a teenager. I am sure that I will soon find out all about it too. I very rarely read out loud to him, but my OH even wakes me up at night to read me bits of book. Luckily, we are both book fanatics and read constantly, but our tastes are quite different.

[Crocus]

Mr C reads everything he can find on motorhomes and touring, especially in the UK, the canals and canal boats of the UK. He's crazy about antique tractors. His other passion is anything and everything regarding investments. Scientific publications and the like, computer technology which was his passion all his life and still is.

[sunflower]

Hubby likes to read anything about ancient buildings, and local history as well as maps.....yes, he reads them like you would a book, in particular ancient maps of Britain. My youngest Son likes Harry Potter....that was two years ago, but has moved onto Dan Brown and anything humorous. Third Son likes oragnic recipe and cocktail books. Also the history of wines.