Geoff Tims Comedy Novel is attracting huge attention

Added: (Fri May 06 2005)

Pressbox (Press Release) - Geoff Tims the well known modern poet has written a comedy coming of age novel Titled Who Wants my Virginity, which is arousing huge amounts of attention before it has even hit the shops.

Two script writers are currently reading the comedy novel and the reviews from a selected reviewing committee has been amazing.

Who Wants My Virginity - The Mike Skinner Diaries Synopsis


Who Wants My Virginity - The Mike Skinner Diaries is the first book (of a series of five) which is a coming of age comedy drama following Mike as he grows up from teenager to man.



Who Wants My Virginity follows the life of Mike Skinner who is a 16-year-old lad coming from a disorganised and unconventional family with a father who knows how to get rid of a job quicker than he was forced to get one and who believes the offer buy one get one free means put one under your jumper and help yourself to the other.



He goes on a disastrous yet hilarious journey to become a man. Mike is an only child that lives in the seaside town of Cleethorpes and is convinced that his friends have lost their virginity, he decides that he doesn’t want to be the only of his friends to still be a virgin and goes all out to lose it!



He visits a brothel with pennies from his moneybox, he lands in hospital, he is arrested for indecent exposure, dresses as a woman to learn about what girls want, caught naked in his friend’s parent’s bedroom by his friend’s parents and causes a huge fight at a family party with his mum hitting people over the head with a frying pan and his dad hitting anything in his way including accidentally hitting his sister in law’s father and all because Mike kissed the wrong women.



Mike idolises his father and listens to all his words of wisdom about women, sex and life even though his father is an accident waiting to happen. Mike's father's advice leaves him very puzzled. For example: he tells his son that erotic sex is a feather and kinky sex is a whole chicken.



Mike is an overweight teenager who cannot understand why women don’t drop at his feet with his good looks and great chat up lines like “Want to be my world while I dance around you” and “do you have a map because I keep getting lost in your eyes?” He gets excited about the prospect of finally losing his virginity and he goes on a mission to buy his first packet of condoms. This results in embarrassment, frustration and complete and utter disaster with the woman behind the counter who knows exactly what he wants and asks him what size and colour he would like and what tune he would like it to play.



Mike does eventually win his battle to lose his virginity with an older woman from a party but when he wakes up with her the following morning he does not remember a thing, with the final words “did you enjoy it” with a reply “enjoy it, I don’t even remember it”



This book will make you laugh, cry and smile as you travel with Mike on his particular journey that many of us have been on. Remember your first steps in adult life and enjoy Who Wants My Virginity. This hilarious book has been described as a stand up comedy being performed in the comfort of your own home.



Public transport have signs for people not to smoke, there should be a sign for not reading Who Wants My Virginity as the laughing, crying and smiling will disturb the peace and quiet of the journey.



Who Wants My Virginity -The Mike Skinner Diaries is the first of a proposed series of five.

Here is just one of the many review that the forth coming best seller has received.

Review of Who Wants My Virginity - The Mike Skinner Diaries


Mike Skinner is desperate to lose his virginity and Geoff Tims details the superficial minutia of Mike’s journey to adulthood in detail which is both very comic and tragic.

“Courtroom sex is the final sex of marriage and this sex is the wife’s most enjoyable sex and it takes place in front of a judge where your wife screws you for every penny she can get!”

This quote sums up the comic; Mike remembers all the advice ever given, all useless, yet all very funny.

The tragedy hides underneath the shallowness of the lives featured. As a snapshot of Britain’s youth; many will cry foul, but many will see pieces of Mike’s journey around them or even in their own lives. Many will laugh in recognition of their own fumbling, many will cry at the lack of anything else in Mike’s life.

Geoff uses the language of Mike well, his narrative voice is alive and reflects the coarseness and superficiality, yet also gives out naivety and worry.

All ages from teens to Queen telegram receivers can enjoy this book, not just for the frequent one-liners, but for the touches that remind them, ‘I once lost my virginity.’

Peter Weaver

For details about the book or about the author, please contact Diane Wells Dianewells2@hotmail.com