A fantastic piece of writingDecember 19, 2008 Loved this book, told in Miles' inimitable style. It is laugh out loud funny, but also deeply moving with some excellent humourous observations along the way. Buy it - you won't be disappointed.
funny but very sad tooNovember 7, 2008 5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book will make you laugh out loud; and people on trains will give you weird looks as if you were doing it just to annoy them. But don't worry, it won't be your fault, it will be Miles Kington's.
It's a book about avoiding being serious about cancer, and so there's a terrible underlying sadness running through it all.
But mainly it is really funny. The scene where his oncologist tries to get advice on an agent for his own book; the scene where Kington's father-in-law instructs teatime visitors on how to hunt with a Pekinese; a long hilarious meditation on the book 1001 Things To Do Before You Die and whether it is offensive to people who are actually dying; the lists of possible books that Kington proposes to his own agent, Gill Coleridge... honestly, definitely a completely entertaining (and often thought-provoking) hour or two.
