Begining of a New Mole Era
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Another excellent Mole book and a worthy addition to the canon of British satire. Mole remains a character who is easily identifiable with, even if he inhabits a pastiche of contemporary Britain which is often gruesome, but always amusing. A major difference to earlier works is that the poignancy which always ran through his journals is much more of an integral part of the narratives. And, although this book seems to have dated surprisingly quickly (especially when compared to the Adrian's earlier efforts) it is still exceptionally funny. Highly Recommended.
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This is a great book.
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If you are a fan of the Adrian Mole books you have to read this it is about adrian mole aged 30. A great book and well worth the reed, Also a very funny book :)
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The Cappuccino Years
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This is a very good book. If you have red the past Adrian Mole books you have to read this it is about adrian mole aged 30 1/4. Can he be a good father? Why whont the bbc produce 'The White Van', his serial killer comedy. this is a must reed it is funny and hilerias
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Adrian Mole - Modern History
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I would agree that, at first, the style of this book deviates from Adrian's first diaries in that the entries are really long-winded (and less funny), but perhaps that's deliberate (and that Townsend is showing Adrian trying to be more of a "writer", which he is renownedly crap at). It also coincides with a time in Adrian's life when he seems to have more time to write lengthy nonsense. Later in the diary, when he's more busy with "real life" tasks, his entries become shorter and more personally reflective (and therefore, more funny). What I think is brilliant about these books is remembering the era I grew up in. Adrian, as always, chronicles current events in his diary: such as Princess Diana's death and the new Blair government coming to power, and makes statements about these events, thus recording history in a way that portrays, more than most, how the "ordinary person" viewed those times. It then becomes more like a discourse of modern history - which I think is great. It's like having a (modern) 'memories museum' in book format. Fantastic! The Sunday Telegraph says it best - Townsend 'has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it'.
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brilliant
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I think that this book is undoubtedly the best out of the Adrian Mole series. He is a lot more grown up but he is still as messed up as he ever was, but i think that Adrian Mole is completely upstaged by the magnificent love triangle between Adrians pearents and Pandora's. I like William as a charecter because i think he provides a lot of the humour, i think the whole thing about the birds in the nests is ingenious, i dont particulaly like the way that pandora has developed, i think that now she is a bit arrogant and snobbish. One of the objections that i do have to this book is that i think that Sue Townsend throws to many consepts in at the end and doesn't round them off as well as she could have . Over all it is a great read but dont expect it to be a masterpiece from the begging to the the end . it has it's moment but it is not quite a master piece. I do hope that there will be many more installment of the Adrian Mole series, it would be extremely intyresting to see Adrian Mole as a seventy year old. i wonder if he will still be so completely mixed up and will he ever have a truly stable relationship intresting indeed.
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