Adrian Mole: the Wilderness Years

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Summary: A good book, but lacking the usual something.
Review: Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years is a good book but it seems to have lost the underlying realism of the earlier diaries. The humour just dosen't seem quite as good and Adrian just does too badly. Having said that he has to grow up and the book is very much an Adrian Mole diary. If you are addicted to the previous diaries then I would definetly buy this book.

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Summary: The first was best
Review: Adrian Mole: the Wilderness Years, joins Adrian, who readers first met when he was 13 3/4 years old, a 24-year-old wanna be writer living in Oxford and still helplessly in love with his childhood sweetheart, Pandora. To see what's going on, readers have to go deep in this book, beyond Townsend's admirable wit, to see the growth of Adrian into a writer and adult. The stages are measured in the women Adrian loves and the excerpts of his writing, which end when he begins a novel with no language. At times The Wilderness Years, which is written in diary form, becomes almost irritating; it is hard to believe that anyone could be as naive as Adrian. By the end, however, Adrian is wiser and likeable, and the last entry, only two sentences long, is as moving as anything in modern literature.

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Summary: A British naif grows up in the 90s
Review: Adrian Mole: the Wilderness Years, joins Adrian, who readers first met when he was 13 3/4 years old, a 24-year-old wanna be writer living in Oxford and still helplessly in love with his childhood sweetheart, Pandora. To see what's going on, readers have to go deep in this book, beyond Townsend's admirable wit, to see the growth of Adrian into a writer and adult. The stages are measured in the women Adrian loves and the excerpts of his writing, which end when he begins a novel with no language. At times The Wilderness Years, which is written in diary form, becomes almost irritating; it is hard to believe that anyone could be as naive as Adrian. By the end, however, Adrian is wiser and likeable, and the last entry, only two sentences long, is as moving as anything in modern literature.

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Summary: A disapointment
Review: I loved the other Mole Diaries but i found the wilderness years to be depressing. Adrian is pathetic and no longer so witty.

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Summary: About a boy growing up.
Review: The book I read and couldn't put down was Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend. This book is about a person called Adrian Mole who writes down all his depressions, affairs, hopes and problems. In this book Adrian Mole has grown-up and is 23 and 3/4. He lives in a box room in Pandora's house. Adrian is trying very hard to sell a novel called "Lo! the flathills of my homeland." He keeps getting lots of rejections from the BBC. Adrian lost his first love Pandora and she's now having an affair with his boss. Adrian's boss works for a nature magazine and Adrian has a paragraph about amphibians. But seeing there is hardly any staff he gets a lot of paperwork. Adrian is very depressed that Pandora doesn't want to marry him. He starts to see a psychiatrist, her name is Leonora and he falls in love with her. Adrian doesn't realise but a girl called Bianca fancies him at the corner shop. He soon finds a new job at a restaurant called Savages. Leonora isn't interested in him because she's already married and suggests they stop their sessions together. But Bianca still fancies him a lot. Adrian and Bianca start having an affair. He moves into her flat and they're both really happy. Soon though they split up because Bianca goes off with another man so Adrian is left on his own. He begs Pandora to let him back in her box room, reluctantly she agrees. Adrian is still working at the restaurant Savages and there is now a new girl working Savages called Jo- Jo. Adrian decides to take a holiday, which he thinks is an exotic holiday with hot sunny weather. It turns out to be a cold rainy adventure holiday! The holiday is a diaster, but when Adrian gets back Jo- Jo was waiting, and he drops his luggage and they embrace. The story Adrian Mole: the Wilderness Years was a fantastic book. I think the best chracter and star role was Adrian, because he was so funny! There was no chracter I didn't like because they were all cleverly made up and different. I really enjoyed this book it was interesting and funny, I couldn't put it down! Everything in it was detailed and outrageous! Sue Townsend couldn't have made it any better. I hope there will be a follow up to this fictional diary soon. I don't see how anyone can pick it up and not enjoy it, it's impossinle not to! Bye! The story Adrian Mole :The Wilderness Years was fantastic book. I think the best chracter and star role was Adrian,

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Summary: The first was best
Review: This one was okay, but I still think the previous ones were better. Adrian is slightly starting to disappoint me. It's still quite funny, but the idiosyncracies of his personality is starting to get kind of predictable. But at the end, I still think it's a good read.