I'm trying to find a book for my anti-book boyfriend.. help?

Question

Ok so my boyfriend thinks books are a waste of time outside of school, except he's told me that he doesn't mind reading nonfiction things. So, being the book lover that I am, one of his presents for Christmas is going to be a book ^_^. One book I was looking into is called "Theory of Interaction the Simplest Explanation of Everything", and I was wondering if anyone here as ever read it? If anyone else knows any nice, easy reads along the lines of nonfiction books about space, crime, anything like that, please list them!

Answer 1

It's very common for males to prefer nonfiction. Don't give him a novel, at this point, but do look for informational books that relate to his interests. If he's a sports fan, maybe a book on his favorite team or player. If he plays golf, or another sport, look for how-to books in that area. If he has a hobby, there's bound to be a how-to book on that topic.
Good luck

Answer 2

My War, by Andy Rooney is good.

The Blooding, by Joseph Wambaugh, along with another book, "The Onion Fields" are also good books.

Vonegut, as I recall, was fond of space. I like Spider Robinson's "Callahan's" series because everything breaks down into short stories.

And far and away my favorite non-fiction book is "The Cannibal Queen" by Stephen Coonts. The wordsmithery alone is worth every page when you discover why his instructor was threatening to shove his pencil up his @ss.

Longish, but still interesting is "Yeager," penned by himself.

And "A Pirate Looks at 50" by Jimmy Buffett is an old favorite of mine. I'm particularly fond of the part where he explains how he wound up at the New Years Festival and wishing people "happy @ssholes."

Twain took a trip around the world, in the early 1900's and wrote a book called "Following the Equator.." I haven't read it yet, but if Tom Sawyer and his assorted short stories are any indicator, it has to be wonderful.

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Answer 3

Cheat a little, get unabridged books on CD from the public library. Then let him listen to them on his commute to work.

Some of the better non-fiction books I have listened to are "The Brothers Bulger" and "Hit & Run."

The Bulger brothers ran Boston from the 70's through the 80's. Whitey ran a large part of the criminal underworld while his brother Billy made his way to the top of the State Senate.

"Hit & Run" tells the true story of how a high school dropout turned hairdresser and his friend rose to the top of the entertainment world and the nearly destroyed of Sony Pictures.

Sorry I can't think of the author's names, but quick search of your library's card catalog will find the books.

Answer 4

Tom Wolfe, "The Right Stuff" - gutsy, idiosyncratic exploration of NASAs early years and the men who were 'willing to sit up on top of an enormous roman candle' (in Wolfe's words). Wonderfully evocative look at America in the 50s, 60s and 70s and the brash, arrogant, testosterone-fuelled and, even, heroic men who first flew to the moon (and a few that never made it).

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" - a brutal look at life in a Siberian gulag with the added virtue of being short.

Steven Levy, "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" - entertaining 'biography' that captures the excitement and energy of the early years of the computer revolution, when computers were still the domain of 'geeks' and underground electronics clubs.

Good luck!

Answer 5

a book about porn.....