My Legendary Girlfriend

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He still makes lists of each birthday present Aggi ever gave him, has gymnastic fantasies about a perfect reunion night with her, dwells on the first words she uttered to him. I was also born in Birmingham — in my humble opinion the greatest city in the world with the nicest people too.

There's Alice (who remembers his birthday), Simon (who doesn't), Martina (the one-night stand), Kate (the previous tenant of his rented Archway fleapit) and of course Aggi - the inimitable Aggi. Andrew Lincoln reads Mike Gayle's hilarious, original and Number One bestselling story for anyone who has ever been dumped, dumped or lived in a dump. Maybe I identified with the 20 something lead character who was a fairly mediocre teacher wishing to be something else, pining over the love of his life who had cruelly dumped him and generally muddling along waiting for something exciting to happen. A debut that took Great Britain by storm, My Legendary Girlfriend introduced the world to the loveable, lovestruck Will Kelly.There’s much more about the thrill of the early nineties indie scene and the excitement of Britpop waiting to happen in Higher Than The Sun, the story of Foxbase Alpha, Loveless, Screamadelica and Bandwagonesque and how Creation Records took on the world and nearly won. In his decrepit flat where he can’t even manage to cook spaghetti hoops without setting off the communal smoke alarm, his lifeline is the telephone.

She's balancing, there are so many others with unbroken eyes as well, no cellulite afternoons, she is balancing, balancing on the edge of ugliness tonight, she is balancing. The single was first released in 1991 on 12" vinyl and then in 1996 on CD featuring the original track-listing. Am not sure about all the negative things said about this seller by other people,,, because my experience was completely different, totally positive. We knew this world only too well – the same world as the video for Babies, which somehow looked like a glossy ITV pop show, a low budget early seventies German ‘adult’ comedy film and a filmed insert from You And Me all at once – and if it had previously felt like you just couldn’t say these things, Jarvis Cocker had just gone ahead and said them and somehow changed everything.Like an outrageous celebrity interview on The Word or a savagely pointed comment on Have I Got News For You, it seemed to step dangerously outside the unspoken consensus that there were certain limits that were not to be – as laughable as it might seem now – tested lightly. As much as I did like Will over the course of the story, I really wanted to grab hold of him and give him a good shake. Due to my love of reading I thought I would set up a blog to share with people my thoughts on the books i've read. Celebrate Mike Gayle’s 25th year of publishing with this special anniversary edition of his first ever novel!

Unchained Melody was at number one at the time and I liked the way it used one performance of the song filmed from various angles as the video. Overall the production, like the song itself, is wildly ambitious – but for once they’ve hit their target, shot the moon. Having recently read and loved The Museum of Ordinary People by the author, I was eager to read more by him so grabbed myself a copy of one of his earlier novels. With that in mind I decided to try his debut novel My Legendary Girlfriend that he first published back in 1998.The book was so good that I immediately started looking at other male `Lad Lit' authors and Mike Gayle was one that I had heard of and was incredibly popular. In his decrepit flat where he can't even manage to cook spaghetti hoops without setting off the communal smoke alarm, his lifeline is the telephone. I found the main character Will annoying and not very likeable but I was still engaged enough to find out how the book ended. We get the lowdown on his truly depressing life, his awful flat and his agony over his ex-girlfriend. They also provided a lot of the book’s nostalgia, reminding me of when I would spend hours on the phone talking to friends or loved ones.