How to get someone addicted

[Amy Z]

Parker wrote:

>I just *had* to share this.
> My husband, Doug, has been teasing me for months about my HP 
> obsession.  I finally got him to read Philosopher's Stone.  

Ooh, Parker, what's your secret?  I want to get my dh hooked but I 
haven't found a way.  Maybe on a long drive he'll consent to listen to 
the tape...he's not much of a books-on-tape person, though.

I think he's getting a little tired of my being so wrapped up in 
something he knows nothing about.  I keep having to fill him in (no 
spoilers, of course) in order to tell him something funny that came up 
on the list.  But so far he has only once said, "maybe I'll read them 
eventually," and hasn't made a move toward picking them up.

Maybe I should start telling him I have a crush on someone in book 3 
and jealousy will force him to get going.

If none of this works, I might be reduced to asking him straight out 
to read them as a favor to me (hmm, the direct approach--never thought 
of that before!  <g>).

Amy Z