Instructions For Living Someone Else's Life - Mil Millington
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 Instructions For Living Someone Else's Life - Mil Millington
Newest Review: ... kept waiting for it to be funny and it just wasn't. There were some humourous moments, such as when Chris is winding up his ... more  ... irritating boss Euan, who "concentrated very hard on not bursting into flames". Well it was funny when reading this book....
The book was frustrating precisely because it had the potential to be funny but wasn't. When Chris wakes up in bed with a wife he doesn't remember marrying and thinks she is a one night stand who he has to run away from, it should be a very funny scene and it almost is - it just didn't quite get there.
The characterisation isn't great - we are intended to sympathise with Chris but he j...more |
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Pages: 272, Paperback, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Last Update 04.12.2009 05:59
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Instructions For Living Someone Else's Life - Mil Millington: Not the sort of Instructions I'd want to have for life (584 words)
by - written on 21/04/09 (Very useful, 257 readings)
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This is the fourth book by Mil Millington, who first came to attention through his popular website "Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About." This website was so successful that Millington wrote a book of the same title but with adapted content in 2002. Having previously read "Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About" some time ago and finding it very funny, although surreal, I picked this book up in the library. The synopsis on the back of the book sounded interesting - Chris goes out one night in 1988, aged 25, gets very drunk and then wakes up the next morning in 2006, in his forties and in bed with his wife (who he ... Read the complete review
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