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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: 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: 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: 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: Yes!!!
Review: I discovered this book right around the time it came out,when I was in grade school. I read it over and over,checking it out of the library three times in a year. I thought Aidy's life was far more interesting than my humble origins and laughed at all his problems, I even did a book report on it for 6th grade English. Adrian thinks himself intellectual though he is far from it at this point (later books he gets closer to having the kind of booksmarts that would make him a true intellectual),writes bad poetry and pines for treacle-haired Pandora. Almost makes me want to visit the UK.
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Summary: This is not only for young adults.
Review: I read this the first time at age 55. I took it over to my neighbor (she was 62). I sat on my porch and listened to her laugh for a couple hours. She took it to another neighbor whose daughter was sick in bed. She read it to her daughter and I could hear them laughing two houses away. It's a wonderful book. You wouldn't want to live next door to Adrian, but he's has a special insight into the peculiar intricacies of life which truly will lighten your day. If you're depressed, don't pass it up. I read 2-3 books a week and this is on my list to re-read again and again.
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Summary: The secret diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
Review: i think that this book is one of the books that i have read in my life great start did not bore me. i think that they should work on the ending. and come out with new ones
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Summary: hello
Review: i thought this book was unbelievably rubbish i would rather have played with my sisters barbie dolls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!all it talked about was his dog and pandora.
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Summary: Adrian Mole is ESSENTIAL reading
Review: If Charles Shultz's saying "Happiness isn't funny" is true, then this book by definition qualifies as hilarious. Adrian Mole isn't just a teenager with typical adolescent angst; he's smack dab in the middle of Thatcher's Britain, on the wrong side of the tracks. His parents are on the skids, he has neither dress sense, social grace, looks, intelligence, nor wit, but believes himself to be intellectual and artistically gifted. Menaced and robbed by skinheads at school on a daily basis, pining for a middle-class girl on the fast-track to the upper class he'd so desperately want to join... he is the absolute metaphor for a latter 20th century England that is no longer on the cutting edge of anything, and, like a teenager realising subconsciously he has no future, dealing with the reality that it will never live up to its past glory or future expectations. Savagely skewering the class system, granola-crunching intellectuals, adolescence, Thatcherism, and life in the Midlands, Sue Townsend has executed a real stroke of brilliance in making Mole so clueless. As the moron he is, he cannot filter nor embellish the truth that goes on around him, but reports it through his own naive eyes. This lets us see, for example, that his best friend is less than sane with a serious identity crisis, without the psychobabble. These are dark, brutal books and could easily be rewritten as black tragedies... much of the humor comes from a sense of "Dei gratia sum quod sum." Yet they are funnier still for being so. If you are British or British-ex-pat or in a British-inspired country like Canada or Australia, you WILL see people you know in these characters. This really is essential reading.
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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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