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"funny and insightful.. the jokes are brilliant and the plot zips along" (EVE )
"This novel shows how age can creep up on us" (OK! )
"there are some musings on feeling as if all your life choices have been made, but the strength of this book lies in Millington's humour" (Alex Heminsley THE LONDONPAPER )
"his arch style will please fans of his previous writing - as well as 43-year-olds" (Katy Guest THE INDEPENDENT )
Some books make you snort involuntarily with laughter; others you have to put down for a proper belly laugh... This is in the latter category (Tania Ahsan METRO )
"hilarious and occasionally touching... a deeply observant work" (Serena Kutchinsky TIME OUT )
"You know when you're laughing so hard you're almost sobbing? Things My Girlfriend ... had that effect on me and so did Instructions For Living" (TRASHIONISTA )
"there are some fine observations on the ageing process" (Toby Clements DAILY TELEGRAPH ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"This novel shows how age can creep up on us" (OK! )
"there are some musings on feeling as if all your life choices have been made, but the strength of this book lies in Millington's humour" (Alex Heminsley THE LONDONPAPER )
"his arch style will please fans of his previous writing - as well as 43-year-olds" (Katy Guest THE INDEPENDENT )
Some books make you snort involuntarily with laughter; others you have to put down for a proper belly laugh... This is in the latter category (Tania Ahsan METRO )
"hilarious and occasionally touching... a deeply observant work" (Serena Kutchinsky TIME OUT )
"You know when you're laughing so hard you're almost sobbing? Things My Girlfriend ... had that effect on me and so did Instructions For Living" (TRASHIONISTA )
"there are some fine observations on the ageing process" (Toby Clements DAILY TELEGRAPH ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
EVE
"funny and insightful.. the jokes are brilliant and the plot zips along"
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It's not as funny as Things my Girlfriend and I have Argued about, but it's a far more poignant story. There are laughs all the way through, but the tale of a young man waking up in an old man's body is told with wit and touching warmth. For those of us somewhere between Young and Middle Aged, there are even lessons to be learned within.
After the disappointing 'Love and other Near Death Experiences', I approached this one with some trepidation. I couldn't have found a better way to spend my evening than reading this.
After the disappointing 'Love and other Near Death Experiences', I approached this one with some trepidation. I couldn't have found a better way to spend my evening than reading this.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Like all Mil Millington's books, this is a book about relationships and friendships, embedded within a story about something different. This story, as you will have read from the blurb, is about someone who gets transported forwards in time to himself in the future, but it's not about a happy jolly `Back to the Future' nuclear family that you might imagine. Along the way there are some very funny jokes, and some wry observations about how a person from the eighties might see the noughties. On being told that music was crap now, the hero says that it wasn't so great back then either - the best was the pet shop boys. He's told that the Pet Shop Boys are now considered to be classic.
I'd say that this was Mil Millington's best book since TMGAIHAA. There are hints of that book in this one, the relationship of the hero to his partner is somewhat similar, but the similarities are sufficiently slight that this adds to, rather than detracts from the book.
When I was half way through I thought I would be disappointed at the length of the book - I want a good book to go on forever, so I can enjoy it for longer, but the length of the book works nicely - the story comes around to a conclusion and it finishes at just the right time.
I'd say that this was Mil Millington's best book since TMGAIHAA. There are hints of that book in this one, the relationship of the hero to his partner is somewhat similar, but the similarities are sufficiently slight that this adds to, rather than detracts from the book.
When I was half way through I thought I would be disappointed at the length of the book - I want a good book to go on forever, so I can enjoy it for longer, but the length of the book works nicely - the story comes around to a conclusion and it finishes at just the right time.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Chris was in the middle of a snooker game but wakes up to find himself with a strange woman (not unusual in itself) in a strange house with no sign of his own clothes. He gradually realises that he's been catapulted into the future, where he's now 25 years older and a flabby alcoholic in the same job but with an impending divorce. Only one of his (former) friends believes him and he struggles to turn his current life around while attempting to regain his old one and the lost 25 years.
Did he really fall 25 years into the future? Or does he have alcoholic amnesia?
"Things my Girlfriend and I have Argued About", Mil Millinton's first book, was one of the funniest fictional non-fiction I've ever read. His second, "A Certain Chemistry" was a passable bloke-lit (but not as funny) and "Love and Other Near Death Experiences" was read in a fit of author-loyalty (and not funny at all). Instructions For Living Someone Else's Life is probably his second best, in my opinion. I did laugh a few times (most notably in the first three chapters).
Mr. Millington is an accomplished writer, but his wit often flounders on the altar of in-jokes. I suspect that I would have got even less out of this book had I not lived through the eighties and found myself middle aged while reading it. The story is clever and well written, but falls somewhere between humour and chick-lit (bloke-lit) without touching either shore.
Did he really fall 25 years into the future? Or does he have alcoholic amnesia?
"Things my Girlfriend and I have Argued About", Mil Millinton's first book, was one of the funniest fictional non-fiction I've ever read. His second, "A Certain Chemistry" was a passable bloke-lit (but not as funny) and "Love and Other Near Death Experiences" was read in a fit of author-loyalty (and not funny at all). Instructions For Living Someone Else's Life is probably his second best, in my opinion. I did laugh a few times (most notably in the first three chapters).
Mr. Millington is an accomplished writer, but his wit often flounders on the altar of in-jokes. I suspect that I would have got even less out of this book had I not lived through the eighties and found myself middle aged while reading it. The story is clever and well written, but falls somewhere between humour and chick-lit (bloke-lit) without touching either shore.
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Original but not great
The idea of a guy waking up 18 years ahead in the future after a boozy night is a brilliant one. However I did not like the style and missed Mil Millington's lighter and wittier... Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2009 by French reader
I'm convinced that Mil has written the below 5 * reviews...
...because this is in no way a 5 * read! I absolutely loved ' A Certain Chemistry ' and it is up there in my top 10. This, however, was a struggle to get through. Read more
Published on 31 July 2008 by Julia
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