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Summary: Forget Holden Caufield, Adrian is far closer to the truth!!
Review: How have I missed Adrian? I picked up this book last week to read on the plane back to the US and could not put it down. Every character is perfect from Adrian with his spotty face & his pretensions, to his lunatic parents to Bert the gereatric to the Singh family next door. Once you read this book, you'll be on the the others. Here's hoping that Adrian goes on forever!!BTW, Barry Kent is one of the best fictional characters since Bluto Blutarski in the movie "Animal House." Note to American Readers: If you are not familier with life in Britain, you may want to jump to Adrian's glassary of British terms, which he provides for his American pen-pal Hamish in the second part of this book.
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Summary: Ball Bouncingly Funny!
Review: Ah, yes. Now in my thirties I remember when I was a spotty, sex-craved teenager who listened to The Smiths all day and complained about my parents. Then my high school English teacher made us read this book and my life looked absolutley fantastic!! At least I was not a part of the Mole family and at least I was not Adrian. But the way Adrian deals with his 'lusts' is absolutley spot-on. Big n' Bouncy indeed! Having said that, he is a wonderful character who is at the same time as funny as he is sad. His mum and dad are wonderfully written and it is easy to understand everyone's prediciment (except for the gran). Of course, the dog deserves the St. George's Cross for all the pain it is put through. Also, read The Queen and I. Wonderful.
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Summary: This book is great!
Review: This book is really great! The storyline is interesting and the deatils are described very vividly. It explores the growing pains of a teenager e.g spots(pimples). I rate it 4 stars!
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Summary: Brilliantly subversive and hilarious
Review: Adrian Albert Mole is very mcuh a typical intellectual teenager. he realises his intellectualism at te start of the book, identifying it as he has a poor background, enjoys reading and dislikes punk. Through the various Adrian Mole books he has gone on a voyage of discovery and self-finding. In the first bookk he is a naive, nampy-pampy character with a poetry fixation. The exchanges he has with the BBC as he attempts to cajole them into using his work are clever and stylish. He comes from what can politely be described as a dysfunctional family. Both his parents are havign affairs which produce children at the start, although he is oblivious to this. His innocent reference to a game of Monopoly played with his Mum and her boyfriend ("Mr Lucas was the banker. Mum went to jail a lot") was joyously clever and had me in stitches. Adrian has a strong social fascination, following various half-baked ideologies, mainly because his girlfriend Pandora is interested in them. The fact that, rather than being a novel about a talented nerdish youth lost amidst a sordid world, Sue Townsend has empathised with a 13 year old boy, is why this is seen as such a classic.
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Summary: a quick, lighthearted read, it will make you laugh
Review: Relive the 80's British style with Adrian Mole, a neurotic, hypocondriac with parents who are more confused then he is. A book you will read with a smile on your face.
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Summary: A Superb Piece of work....
Review: I must first congratulate Sue Townsend on her remarkable acheivements with young Adrian Albert Mole. I have read The Secret Diary and The Growing Pains about 4 times each, but I never get tired or bored of it. Adrian is starts off as a 13 year old Intellectual, living in a house with his pathetic parents and his companion(the dog!) He has much to say about World Politics and Communism, and has a bitter-sweet imagination. As an Intellectual, he finds it difficult to live in a home where he is not noticed, and in a world where people kill themselves, and corruption ruled the world! He also has a thirst for Great English Literature, and he never turns away from it. After reading many Classic books: "Animal Farm, Wuthering Heights, etc" he decides that Poetry and novels is what he wants! He wants to become a poet, and submits numerous poems to the BBC, but they fail to get published, but young Mole is a fighter, and he never gives up! He lives life quite the same, until the treacle-haired love of his life turns up( Pandora Braithwaite). She is smart, gorgeous, and hilariously funny, as stated by A.Mole. But, as he grows older into maturity, he discovers that things will change, and turn very bitter and sweet. But, Mole will always turn out triumphant in the end! A must read!
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Summary: Totally Funny !
Review: I think Adrian Mole is one of the most funny characters I will ever read of! I think all mid-teens should read it!
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Summary: You will laugh out loud
Review: Fabulously entertaining! I read the first of the series, cover-to-cover in one afternoon then left to buy up the rest of the series and read them one after another. I can't get enough of the Moles! This book has such wit. I was truly upset to get to the end and wanted to just read through the series again. At first, the book's flavor reminded me of Owen from "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving -- (I ADORED that book) -- but as I read on, the books by Townsend are even better! NOT JUST FOR TEENAGERS! (In fact, much of the humor would be lost on them, I think.) The diaries are full of entries that will make you laugh out loud. I can't imagine anyone not liking this collection. I cerainly wouldn't want them as friends! BUY THIS BOOK NOW!
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Summary: Very funny but also very true
Review: This book is one of the most accurate portrayals of the teenage experience I have ever read. It wasn't too long ago that I was feeling the same anxieties as Adrian. Sue Townsend inject humor into teen angst without trivializing the experience. I found myself laughing constantly because he was doing stuff that I remember myself doing. A definite must-read.
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Summary: Very funny and very touching
Review: I loved this book and I now cherish it with all my heart. It was very, vey funny and I admire any book that can make me laugh outloud. Well done Sue Townsend for giving us Adrian, the teenager from hell.
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