Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About - Mil Millington

...I object to is when things leave funny behind and start becoming ridiculous. Sadly, that's what many parts of this novel are. To get so many amusing arguments out of a relatively mundane existence, some strange things have to happen with alarming regularity to ensure these arguments get started. Sadly, many of these things have to be totally ridiculous to get to that point. With many novels, especially comedy style ones, there has to be some suspension ...
...humorous bloke-lit kind of novel, things start getting a little strange and the whole book takes a turn in the direction of being very silly. However, even I, who objects to this kind of behaviour, found myself laughing frequently during the course of this book, nearly as much as I shook my head and thought how stupid a certain situation was. That might only be a 50% hit rate, but I've read and watched supposed comedies that have made me laugh less ...

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So you think I’m pedantic? You should meet Mil Millington and his girlfriend Margret. (Oops, sorry, I meant Pel Dalton and his girlfriend Ursula). There’s very little difference really. Anyone who is familiar with Mil’s website http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mil.millington/things.html will recognise that Pel and Ursula in the novel are a very thinly disguised Mil and Margret. Even their children have the same names. You may also recognise Mil’s name ...
...his relationship with his German girlfriend Margret (has he got a complex about her or what?). This is one book that you can easily “try before you buy”. Just have a quick look on Mil’s website and you’ll soon see the writing style and humour you can expect from this book. My boyfriend was kind enough to buy me this book as an ironic present. We actually argue very little about serious stuff, but bicker, constantly, about trivialities. Both of us ...

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This book started off as a web site (http://www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com/) on which Mil Millington lists the various arguments he and his partner Margret have had over some of the strangest things. It's hilariously funny and it's given me loads of entertainment. He's also written a weekly column for the Guardian, which I admit I've never read. A few months ago, I went back to the site to find that he'd written a book loosely based ...
...funny, I ordered the book from Amazon (in their logic-crumpling 3 books for £12 offer or each book at £3.99). In this book, Pel Dalton works at a university library doing an I.T. job he knows very little about and is continually bluffing his way around. He lives with his German partner, Ursula and their two sons Peter and Jonathan. Arriving into work one day, he finds out that his boss, Terry Steven Russell (or TSR) has simply disappeared with a ...

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...other wonderfully hernia-inducing hilarious lines.... Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About... you've seen the website, you've read his weekly column in the Guardian, now buy the book. Actually, you may not have seen the website. If you haven't you can find it at www.thingsmygirlfriendandIhavearguedabout.com. Mil Millington is a genius. He's got to be the funniest man alive. I laughed and laughed... quite unashamedly and loudly whilst being ...
...to his life and the things that happen to him could quite possibly happen to a person like him because he is out of control. This is where Ursula comes in and this is why they argue. Ursula is German; she spends 85% of her time having absolutely no concept of reason whatsoever....which is what makes her utterly uproariously funny, because when she DOES display reasonable tendencies, she uses her rapier tongue to flay Pel (and anyone else who comes ...

kerryking 29.07.2003 (26.09.2003) · Read full review
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