My Legendary Girlfriend - Mike Gayle

Title: My Legendary Girlfriend
Author: Mike Gayle
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 3/10
# pages: 200+ pages
Date read: October, 2008

Summary: It's been three years since Will's heartthrob, Agnes, wrecked his life with a chat that started, "It's like that song. If you love somebody, set him free." But no matter how much time goes by, Will doesn't feel very free. 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.

How long can a person stay down in the dumps after being dumped? And how much longer before Will dumps Martina, the sweet but clingy girl he's seeing? Will anyone ever measure up to his Legendary Girlfriend?

Review: One of the lowest ratings I've ever given. The reason I didn't write an exact number of pages is that I merely skimmed the last half of the book so I'm not entirely sure how many pages beyond 200 I read. I only kept reading/skimming because I'm reading this for a book club and wanted to be able to keep up with what the others were saying. Fortunately it was so soap-opera'ish that even with skimming half the book, I still got all the major plot points (I think). It's like a male version of Bridget Jones' Diary, only worse. Really, really boring and - I guess - a genre that just doesn't appeal to me.

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