- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (8 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340936746
- ISBN-13: 978-0340936740
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 290,575 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Brilliantly funny' (Daily Mail )
'Put "buy it" at the top of your to do list' (Radio 4 Loose Ends )
'An observant offering' (Heat on WISH YOU WERE HERE )
'This has the makings of another Mike Gayle classic, a spot on, easy beach read. Just add sangria.' ( Independent on WISH YOU WERE HERE )
'More insights into the male psyche... fans will love it' (Cosmopolitan on BRAND NEW FRIEND )
'The male Bridget Jones' (Express on MY LEGENDARY GIRLFRIEND )
'Gayle's chatty style sustains a cracking pace' (The Times on MR COMMITMENT )
'Mike Gayle has carved a whole new literary niche out of the male confessional novel. He's a publishing phenomenon' (Evening Standard on TURNING THIRTY )
'Put "buy it" at the top of your to do list' (Radio 4 Loose Ends )
'An observant offering' (Heat on WISH YOU WERE HERE )
'This has the makings of another Mike Gayle classic, a spot on, easy beach read. Just add sangria.' ( Independent on WISH YOU WERE HERE )
'More insights into the male psyche... fans will love it' (Cosmopolitan on BRAND NEW FRIEND )
'The male Bridget Jones' (Express on MY LEGENDARY GIRLFRIEND )
'Gayle's chatty style sustains a cracking pace' (The Times on MR COMMITMENT )
'Mike Gayle has carved a whole new literary niche out of the male confessional novel. He's a publishing phenomenon' (Evening Standard on TURNING THIRTY )
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Would a proper adult ignore the spilt milk under the fridge for weeks?
Would a proper adult take three years to post a solitary Christmas card?
Would a proper adult have decades-old underwear in active service?
Mike Gayle is nowhere near being a proper adult - even though his tenth wedding anniversary is looming; his second child is due any moment; and in less than twenty-four hours he is going to be officially closer to forty than he is to thirty.
Appalled by this lack of maturity, Mike draws up a To-Do list containing every single item he's been meaning to do but just keeps putting off..
He's got a lot of stuff that needs doing. But unlike previous To-Do lists, he promises himself that this one will actually get DONE. And along the way, Mike will learn stuff about life (323), love (999), friends (1004) and family (9) and finally work out what it means to be a grown up (846).
Mike Gayle is the author of seven bestselling novels and has contributed to a variety of magazines including FHM, SUNDAY TIMES, STYLE and COSMOPOLITAN. To find out more about his novels, visit Mike's website at www.mikegayle.co.uk.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read all of Mike Gayles other novels, and this is by far the worst. Reading about the progress of someone's To Do List is not my idea of a good book. I really think he has run out of ideas. I have plenty of my own lists to do, and reading about someone else's is a chore. I only laughed once (can't remember at which point), but there is virtually no story in this book. The one I followed it up with was Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby, a FAR better read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The To Do List is a delightfully friendly, positive and life affirming read. It is generously populated with Mike Gayle's many friends and family - a lovely crowd - I felt more than pleased to spend time with them all. Underneath the challenge of completing his long languishing dreams of self improvement, resolutions and ambitions, there is strong thread of the warm, tolerant understanding between Mike and his wife Claire that I especially enjoyed. This provides great humour - deliciously sharp. The list of over a thousand 'to do' items at the back of the book is exhaustive; sensibly he didn't write about every single aim. Love of his family beams through the prose together with abundant comfortable fellow feelings that cheer and encourage. The book is amusing, sympathetic and bereft of moans. Somehow he is able to get through the year without mentioning any real shortage of funds so hopefully he is doing well with his writing of all kinds. A contemporary theme of somehow not being quite up to the mark, will strike a chord with a good number of readers. What a clever, tidy ending, too, the perfect finale!
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is a slight departure by Mike Gayle as he is writing fact rather than his usual fiction. It is about what happens when a man ( Gayle ) decides on the eve of his Birthday to make a list of all of the things he needs to do to be a 'grown up' or like the next door neighbours who are always having posh dinner parties and seem too grown up for words.
The items on the list range from 'Clean up milk from under the fridge' to 'Can double denim ever work' with random subjects in between!
This book is not just a random lists book as Mike Gayle finds out a lot about himself and his interactions between friends , family and life in general.
This is a great book but I wish that Mike had included a brief description of some of the tasks not fully covered in the book along side the list of items at the back of the book!
The items on the list range from 'Clean up milk from under the fridge' to 'Can double denim ever work' with random subjects in between!
This book is not just a random lists book as Mike Gayle finds out a lot about himself and his interactions between friends , family and life in general.
This is a great book but I wish that Mike had included a brief description of some of the tasks not fully covered in the book along side the list of items at the back of the book!
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Off to make a list now ...
In appropriate list form, this book is:
1. Not a novel - it is a non-fiction account of the author's attempts to complete a 1277 item to-do list.
2. Funny
3. Read more
1. Not a novel - it is a non-fiction account of the author's attempts to complete a 1277 item to-do list.
2. Funny
3. Read more
Published 27 days ago by Mike N
Fun, enjoyable and inspirational!
I absolutely loved this book - it was so relatable to my life in so many ways, that I actually went and compiled my own "To Do List" with a few hundred items. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Rymanani
Monotonous
Having read and enjoyed Mike Gayle's, Dinner For Two, I had expected a similar light read from The To-Do List. Read more
Published 8 months ago by DubaiReader
Easy, fun read!
Having announced I was starting a 50 day, 50 task challenge due to a mid-life 'reawakening', I was told to read this book. Duly bought and read - fabulous! Read more
Published 11 months ago by Debs4344
Why not call it a novel
The fact is that this book could just have easily been written and sold as a novel.
Having read all of Mike's novels you could really just pick any characters from His and... Read more
Having read all of Mike's novels you could really just pick any characters from His and... Read more
Published 13 months ago by SJB1000
Inspiring and fun
I really enjoyed reading this book. It has inspired me to write my own oober to-do list.... but of course that in itself is on the list! Read more
Published 15 months ago by Michelle
Entertaining, if not inspiring
This is the first book by Mike Gayle that I have read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The author sets himself over a thousand tasks (diligently included as an appendix) and a time... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Dona Rendell
An Really Entertaining Read
I only recently discovered Mike Gayle and enjoyed his novel 'Wish You Were Here' so was really looking forward to reading this, his first non-fiction book. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Lincs Reader
Simple idea, surprisingly compelling
Despite the fact that this is the type of book that only published authors would ever get paid to write, there is something oddly compelling about sneaking a peek at another's... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Copycreate
You will be writing your own "to do list" before you get to the end!
We've all been there, we all have mental to do lists that probably involve sorting *that* kitchen drawer out, or sorting out that box you never got round to when you moved in, or... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Kiki
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