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The Adrian Mole Diaries

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 : The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

By Sue Townsend

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| Paperback | 9780380730445

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Adrian Mole faces the same agonies which life sets before most adolescents: troubles with girls, school, parents, and an uncaring world. The difference, though, between young Master Mole and his peers is that this British lad keeps a diary -- an earnest chronicle of longing and disaster that has Continue

Adrian Mole faces the same agonies which life sets before most adolescents: troubles with girls, school, parents, and an uncaring world. The difference, though, between young Master Mole and his peers is that this British lad keeps a diary -- an earnest chronicle of longing and disaster that has convulsed more than five million readers since its two-volume initial publication. From teenaged Adrian's obsession with intellectuality after understanding "nearly every word" of a Malcolm Muggeridge broadcast to his anguished adoration of a lovely, mercurial schoolmate, from his view of his parents' constantly creaking relationship to his heartfelt but hilarious attempts at cathartic verse, here is an outrageous triumph of deadpan, and deadly accurate, satire. ABBA, Princess Di's wedding, street punks. Monty Python, the Falklands campaign -- all the cultural pageantry of a keenly observed era marches past the unique perspective of Sue Townsend's brilliant comic creation: A. Mole, the unforgettable lad whose self-absorption only gets funnier as his life becomes more desperate.

Adrian Mole faces the same agonies which life sets before most adolescents: troubles with girls, school, parents, and an uncaring world. The difference, though, between young Master Mole and his peers is that this British lad keeps a diary--an earnest chronicle of longing and disaster that has convulsed more than five million readers since its two-volume initial publication. From teenaged Adrian's obsession with intellectuality after understanding "nearly every word" of a Malcolm Muggeridge broadcast to his anguished adoration of a lovely, mercurial schoolmate, from his view of his parents' constantly creaking relationship to his heartfelt but hilarious attempts at cathartic verse, here is an outrageous triumph of deadpan, and deadly accurate, satire. ABBA, Princess Di's wedding, street punks, Monty Python, the Falklands campaign--all the cultural pageantry of a keenly observed era marches past the unique perspective of Sue Townsend's brilliant comic creation: A. Mole, the unforgettable lad whose self-absorption only gets funnier as his life becomes more desperate.

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    England - present

    Brilliant! Funny,charming and sweet

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    Mati said on Jul 13, 2010 | 2 feedbacks

  • Adrian Mole book 2 - England - present

    Another hilarious diary by Adrian - so funny!

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    Mati said on Aug 24, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

    SO. FREAKING. FUNNY. I love this book! The author has written in excellently, and has a great voice!! It is just hilarious. You'll laugh until you cry when you read it!!

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    Liaformenti said on Aug 6, 2010 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • I love this book, my Dad brought it home one night, some guy at work was giving it away. I started to read it, in the end my Dad gave it to me. I've read it 3 times at the moment, and still i cant stop laughing out loud at some parts!!

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    Carly Fletcher said on Apr 1, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • Heart warming

    This is a wonderful portrayal of a young boy finding himself. It makes you laugh out loud and reach for the tissues. Read it!

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    Magnetic Fire said on Mar 13, 2010 about the Audio Cassette edition | Add your feedback

  • Adrian Mole the Charitable Intellectual

    I think these diaries of Adrian Mole should be really true to life of teenagers in the 80s. But I am not quite sure if there were many families in GB in the same situation as Adrian's family's.
    I am actually very fond of the hero--Adrian Mole. He has a heart of gold and is always ready to help oth ... (continue)

    I think these diaries of Adrian Mole should be really true to life of teenagers in the 80s. But I am not quite sure if there were many families in GB in the same situation as Adrian's family's.
    I am actually very fond of the hero--Adrian Mole. He has a heart of gold and is always ready to help others. And it impresses me how much he reads! He is really trying hard to be intellectual!
    It's interesting to be bombarded of so much mild irony from a teenager. It's not too bad for me when I compare the irony with what I had with Catch-22, which is totally different.
    By the way, I didn't intended to really British writers successively but I ended up reading two in a row. There is so much colloquialism! I have to say that I've had an intensive course of informal British English.

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    Ruth Ye said on Feb 12, 2010 | Add your feedback

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