| Re: Can you date a non-fan?
Wouldn't bother me, as long as we had other stuff in common tbh.
My Old Man was a TV SFF guy when I met him but he never read. He's got quite bad dyslexia. He'd tried some old style fantasy novels and found that it took him so long to read ( and often re read) a sentence or paragraph, by the time he got to the end of the page he'd forgotten what was at the start! I tried reading LOTR to him, but my voice gave out...
However, I managed to get him into Pratchett for starters and he found that not only highly amusing but above all easy to read. So I've spent my time finding him books that are written in an easy style ( dragonlance was another good one to start with) and eventually he's even got good enough to tackle Lord of the Rings( although he did have trouble with a lot of the names, he just came up with his own interpretation/ pronunciation and went with that). He was so chuffed when he finished!
Only trouble is now, he keeps nicking my books off me. |