Simply can't win! (Things my girlfriend and I have argued about - Mil Millington)

Member Name: gillyman

Product:	Things my girlfriend and I have argued about - Mil Millington
Date:	02/09/03 (173 review reads)
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Advantages: Highly amusing, cheap

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If you have a bit of time to spare you might like to check out www.mil-millington.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/things.htm l - this is the new website of Things my girlfriend and I have argued about, exclusively revealed to readers of the authors news letter. 'Things' is a bit of a cult website you see. Honestly can't remember how I found it but I definitely remembered laughing a lot when I did.

Writer Mil Millington has a German girlfriend called Margret (from the German M'Arg et meaning 'to be dangerously insane' according to the website) with whom he lives together with their two small children. They argue about absolutely everything. This website is his chronicle of the things that they have argued about. It is very funny. Go and read it. But not until you have finished reading this op or you'll miss the point. This op is not about the website - its about the book which is based on the website. A bit anyway.

Things my girlfriend and I have argued about (the book, not the website anymore - do try to keep up) is the story of the hapless Pel Dalton, boyfriend, father and acting CTASATM (which quite obviously stand for Computer Team Administration Software Acquisition and Training Manager). As far as I can tell, the bits relating to his anything but blissful domestic existence are either events in the life of the author or based on events in his life. The CTASATM bits are most probably the product of his imagination but the boundary is a little blurred in places.

Mil works in a University library. When his immediate boss leaves, he is promoted to the post of acting CTASATM. In taking on that mantle he inadvertently finds himself having to organise payoffs to Chinese triads, cover up the removal of human remains and avoid an enquiry which would discover enough nerve gas to kill everyone in Western Europe. Throughout Dalton's colleagues relate to all these as though they were run of the mill events
whilst he strugg
les to deal with the concepts.

On top of the inconveniences posed by this new job, Dalton has to negotiate a family life in which he is destined never to have the last word or win an argument.

The dialogue throughout is snappy, consistently funny and will have you laughing away, clutching your forehead in amazement or nodding in agreement if you have ever found yourself on the wrong side of a woman like Ursula.

The mixture of an extremely amusing home life, the bizarre goings on at the office and some excellent characters make this really good quality light reading. It certainly has an excellent chuckle ratio and as a quick peak at Amazon reveals that you can pick it up for 3.99 I would suggest that you treat yourselves.

And now that I'm finished you can go and check out the website too!

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