My Legendary Girlfriend - Mike Gayle Reviews

When you have just been dumped and you feel like rubbish, this is the book for you. You can empathise with the main character's bitterness and then laugh at his crazy thoughts. Basically, the bloke whose point of view the book is written from is called Will, he is an ex film student, working as a teacher (a job which he ...  Read the complete review

I've just finished reading this book, it took me about 3 days, and usually that means I have thoroughly enjoyed the book because I couldn't put it down. But in this case I think it means that I found it quite dull, and just wanted to get it over and done with. Will Kelly is 26, and an English teacher, but more importantly he ...  Read the complete review

This is only the second book that I have read of Mike Gayles, and to be honest it wasn't really as good as I was expecting it to be. The first book I read of his called new best friend, which had a runnong theme of the difficulty of making new firends in your thirties. This book, also has a connection with the topic of ...  Read the complete review

I have read many books by Mike Gayle and have always thoroughly enjoyed them mainly due to his down to earth male perspective on life. Strangely though, until recently, I had not read his debut novel, My legendary Girlfriend, but I have now rectified that. I do think though that it is sometimes a risk to go back and read earlier novels ...  Read the complete review

I quite like a read of Mike Gayle books. In general they are easy to read and this suits me as I can be quite an impatient reader. Gayle's books are written from a male perspective (of course) and could be thought of as the male equivalent to 'chick lit'. I have heard the term 'dude and lad lit' banded about. I think the books cater for ...  Read the complete review

I, as I'm sure I've mentioned before, am not a very well read individual. I have a grade 'C' in English Literature GCSE, and have to ask my wife the meaning of 'big words' on a fairly regular basis. Basically I'd struggle on Countdown. Suzi Dent would look down on me (well Suzi always strikes me as a nice lady, she'd probably disguise ...  Read the complete review

Hands up those of you who have ever been dumped in the past. I'm sure nearly all of you have got your pinkies waving in the air now....almost everybody has been 'finished' by a boyfriend/girlfriend at some point in their lives. When I was 16, my boyfriend decided he'd had enough of me and got his best mate to ring me up to ...  Read the complete review

My Legendary Girlfriend. The title doesn't really leap out and bite you, but the blurb on the back sounded intriguing so I decided to give it a go. Once I had picked up this book, I couldn't put it down again. I mean it, I stayed up all night! With most books, I tend to decide that I will stop reading at the ...  Read the complete review

I really wanted to love this book - really, I did. It came highly recommended by a friend whose opinion I value highly, and when I read the blurb on the back of the book I'm afraid that I recognised a lot of myself in the main character. So, yes, I really wanted to love it. Did I love it? Well to be honest, no I didn't. ...  Read the complete review

My Legendary Girlfriend tracks the weird and wonderful feelings of a fella towards his girlfriend.. or ex-girlfriend in this case. It follows a man from heartbreak to obsession to desperation and all the things in between. This is the 1st of Mike Gayles books, and as with the others, Mr Commitment and Turning Thirty it has you ...  Read the complete review