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Summary: A Book about Love, Troubles and Friendships
Review: Do you like funny books? Then you will definitly like the book "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4", by Sue Townsend. This book is about a young boy named Adrian Mole. Adrian goes to a school in Britian. He has a best friend's name is Nigel. Everything is going pretty bad for Adrian until a new girl comes to his school. Her name is Pandora. Adrian thinks that he might be in love with Pandora because he has a lot of feelings for her, until Nigel asks Pandora to be his girlfriend! Adrian is mad about the situation. Not only is he upset about Nigel and Pandora, he is also mad about his parents. His parents are fighting consistantly. With Adrian's mother spending a lot of time with the neighbor husband and with his father always drunk or sick , what is he supposed to do with so much complication in his life? This is a great story to read and can relate to a lot of peoples' lives. Read this book to find out if Adrian will ever get a chance with Pandora or if his parents will ever stop fighting.
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Summary: One of the Most Hilarious Characters to Come Out of Britain!
Review: My mother has had a copy of this book for ages, and when I finally read it a few years ago I wanted to kick myself for not reading it sooner! I have read Adrian's account countless times since, because I just can't get enough of his crazy world. Perhaps what I appreciate most about this teenage boy survival story is the format. It is a great personal diary which Adrian keeps up on a daily basis. Adrian is so naive and oblivious and is at once completely lovable. This innocence or ignorance of his is probably what makes the book so humorous; he honestly has no idea why a girl would be offended if he compared her eyes to those of his dog! Townsend must have been a teenage boy in another life I always reckon; and being a girl myself, I have always found Adrian's trials and tribulations very entertaining and informative. The fact of the matter is, Sue Townsend has created a character with a life completely of his own. Adrian and his family and friends will always have a place in my heart. This book is a supreme resource for those interested in working-class Britain of the 1980s.
Sue Townsend has also produced books chronicling Adrian's adult years, which are also worth reading, but nothing compares with the diaries of Adrian's turbulent formulative teenage years. Another good Townsend book is The Queen and I, a fantasy which accounts the abdication of the royal family and their struggles as regular working class folks.
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Summary: A must read!
Review: I read The Adrian Mole Diaries and I found me cursing myself for not laying my hands on this book earlier! Every guy who has passed his teens relates to this book and surely has some Adrian in him. Its a great book written in simple words. Its refreshing to come across some very typical British words and terms!
This is a must read book and I would strongly suggest this to anyone who travels alone or has to travel with boaring company!
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Summary: A laugh-out-loud read
Review: "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4" is hilarious, a lot of the time painfully so. It chronicles the turbulent adolescence of the idiosyncratic Adrian through the time he turns fifteen. There are highlights consistently throughout the story, such as his submissions of poetry to the BBC (and the letters he consequently receives in return), his romance with the memorable Pandora Braithwaite, and his occasional references to a magazine called "Big & Bouncy" which he keeps hidden under his mattress. Author Sue Townsend's writing is entertaining and funny throughout, and this book is a welcome change from the plethora of "teen diaries" that seem to dominate every library and bookstore's young adult section.
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Summary: The secret diary of adrian mole aged 13 3/4
Review: Do you like funny books? than you will definitly like the book The Secret Life Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend. This book has a great plot and great characters. Adrian is the main character and is going through a lot of issues in his life, considering the fact he has acne and raging hormones.Not only with his acne a problem, he also has girl problems. When a new girl comes to his school, Pandora, he thinks he might get a chance to hook up with her , she goes out with his best friend. Adrian is also having problems with his parents and school. Will Adrian ever get a chance to hook up with Pandora? Will his parents ever stop fighting? If you want to find out all the answers to this book and you like reading about family and girl troubles and a boy whos going through his hormonal stage then I suggest that you read The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4. Trust me, you will love this book.
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Summary: he thinks he's an undiscovered intellectual~
Review: Adrian Mole is your average teenager. He's so average that it's hilarious to read how well Sue Townsend has been able to write his diary entries you'd almost believe he was a real human being. He has normal problems and normal anxieties. He wakes up in the morning not wanting to get out of bed and he goes up to the mirror and complains about his zits. His parents are hardly bothered with him and his best friend has everything he doesn't have-a loving family, richness and popularity. Unfortunately, his best friend has something else that Adrian really does want-Pandora...Adrian's crush and also Adrian's best friend's girlfriend. And yet all through this Adrian keeps wishes and hopes and especially those little dreams that as time goes by doesn't seem to have much of a possibility. This book displays his daily living in an honest and humorous sense of view that mixes very well with reality. For it is not only witty, it is very touching.
I recommend this book to people of all ages. I first read this book when I was 10 but at the time we were told that the content was not suitable. When I actually read it though it didn't actually seem too bad. And now at 14 and 3/4 I can still read it and find it amazingly funny. And many of the adults who have read this book seem to comment it as a very relaxing book that relives them of a LOT of stress. And seeing as this book as THREE others following after it, you'll certainly not regret having to finish the book for you'll be in for twice more fun in the next book.
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Summary: A laugh-out-loud read
Review: "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4" is hilarious, a lot of the time painfully so. It chronicles the turbulent adolescence of the idiosyncratic Adrian through the time he turns fifteen. There are highlights consistently throughout the story, such as his submissions of poetry to the BBC (and the letters he consequently receives in return), his romance with the memorable Pandora Braithwaite, and his occasional references to a magazine called "Big & Bouncy" which he keeps hidden under his mattress. Author Sue Townsend's writing is entertaining and funny throughout, and this book is a welcome change from the plethora of "teen diaries" that seem to dominate every library and bookstore's young adult section.
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Summary: On of my favorites, (probably will be one of yours!)
Review: If you're reading this review, congratulations, you're either thinking of reading this book or you have read it and are looking for other's opinions. This is one of the best books ever, with witty realism combined with the absurd thoughts that all teenage boys have had.
Meet psuedo-intellectual Adrian Mole, a constant struggler, from his girlfriend Pandora, to trying to get his hapless poems (some about the Norwegian leather industry!!!) published, and the old codger, Burt who he visits all the time. Occasionally, he is charming, but mostly he is just goofy. His adventures are too numerous to mention on paper, (or a computer screen) you'll just have to enjoy them for yourself. His disfunctional family and life are hilarious.
I'm curious as to how a woman understands so much about how a guy can feel sometimes. If you are a teenager, used to be one, are going to be one, dated one, are a parent to one, whatever, you should help yourself understand that teenager in your life by reading this book.
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Summary: I laughed till I cried.
Review: People who find out I read a lot sometimes ask, "What's the best book you ever read?" That is a question that's impossible to answer. I might be able to name the best baseball book I ever read or the best Jane Austen novel or the best biography of a political figure or the best historical fiction set in the middle ages or the best teen-age romance. But if anyone ever asks me, "What's the funniest book you ever read?" this one will be my answer. This is the only book I've ever read that made me laugh out loud so hard I cried at the same time. This happened during the scene in which Adrian is contemplating running away and/or committing suicide and feeling exceedingly sorry for himself. I felt at the time it was cruel of me to be laughing over this poor adolescent's pain, but that just made it funnier. I was sitting at the kitchen table at the time, and the other members of the family who passed by thought I was nuts and said so. Everyone's sense of humor is different. I like my humor dry and understated. I can't stand slapstick. I was about forty when I read this. Maybe you have to be old enough to look back on the agonies of adolescence and not give a rat's tail to enjoy this book.
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Summary: NOT a KID's book!
Review: This book appeared on a required (!) reading list for 7th and 8th graders in my daughter's school. Another mom and I were curious about it, so read it ourselves. We both found it to be an offensive, trashy book. I do not consider this book to be appropriate reading for pre-teens or young teenagers. In fact, in our public library, the book is classified as an ADULT book. I consider Adrian's family and social situation to be [bad]. I recognize that his obsession with sex may be typical of boys at his age, but the descriptions of how he handles it are not appropriate for kids to read. Adults or older teenagers may find it humorous as they may see many parallels with their own early-teenage experiences and emotions, but it serves no such purpose for younger kids. I also find it pathetically sad at his descriptions of his parents' behavior and what he witnessed as they each carried on affairs with other people in front of him. My daughter will not be allowed to read this & I have complained to our school principal. If this is assigned by your school, BEWARE!
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