A fantastic book about a teenager!!!!
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This book is great. It's about a teenager who is obbsesed with the spots on this chin and claims to be an interlectual. This diary is about the ups and downs of a worried teenagers life.
I reccomend this book to people from 12-1012!
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The 20th Century's Samuel Pepys
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It's 1981 : Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister, Prince Charles is preparing for his wedding to Lady Diana Spencer and nobody in England has ever heard of the Falkland Islands. Meanwhile Adrian Mole, a spotty kid from Leicester, has a new diary.
Adrian is an only child and is only a few months short of his fourteenth birthday. Somewhat pretentious, occasionally insensitive and just a little dim, he has somehow managed to convince himself that he is an intellectual. (He claims to have read "War and Peace" within 24 hours - he thought it was `quite good' - while "Animal Farm" has led him to consider being a vet when he grows up). Almost inevitably, he's started writing poetry, which he occasionally sends to the BBC. Mr and Mrs Lucas, who live next door, cause something of a scandal when they become the first couple on his street to get divorced. (In fact, he's nearly delighted with the fallout, until his own family get caught up in it). These aren't his only problems, of course - he suffers from acne, his O-Levels and CSEs are looming and he's routinely menaced by Barry Kent at school. As a member of the Good Samaritans, a charity group he's joined, he misses his maths lessons on a Monday. The downside is that he has to help out an eighty-one year old war-veteran called Bert Baxter. Bert's drinking and smoking are bad enough, but the fact that Bert reads the Morning Star has led Adrian to suspect the pensioner is actually a communist. However, it's not all doom and gloom : Adrian is in love with Pandora Braithwaite .
This is a very funny book - it's always been one of my brother's favourites and I'm sure he wouldn't be alone in viewing it a modern classic. It is written as a diary, rather than a novel - each day is presented as a journal entry, with some days being given more detail than others. While it may be a little more accessible to those who grew up in the UK and Ireland in the 1980s, it's still very funny and is hugely recommended.
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Excellent Read For Both The Young And Old
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I read this book when I was a similar age to Adrian and found it a very addictive book, being able to identify with Adrian and his perception of the world. I just couldn't understand the adults in his life and the crazy things they did.
Now I'm older and have read the book again it's even funnier because you can see how well Sue Townsend has written this 13 (and three quarters) year old's diary but now understand a lot more of the humour and what's going on. It's almost as if it's a completely different book and I enjoyed reading it again after all these years.
That's not to say that you can only enjoy it if you read it first when you're in your teens. It's an extra bonus to read it that way but it's still an excellent book for adults to read as well.
The book has dated now, being set in 1984. Teenagers may have a problem if they aren't aware of certain events from that time (Mrs Thatcher, the Royal Wedding etc) and also might be thrown slightly by how cheap everything seems to me (a Mars Bar for 15 pence?) but those occurances are few and far between and the book is still very easily enjoyed.
If you have never read this book then, young or old, I heartily recommend it to you. If it is a book from your childhood and it has been many years since you last read it then you should definitely pick up a copy again or dig out your old one. Re-read it and laugh once more at the hilarious world of Adrian Mole.
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Wickedly funny
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This book was an absolute joy, definately the funniest book I have read for years. I heard people talk about this "diary" when at school but only recently decided to read it. In all books I have read, there are few characters who would top the inimitable Adrian Mole. A fantastic read, so if you're feeling blue, need a pick me up or you just enjoy a good hoot - then look no further than this. I may be 15 years behind most in discovering this book, but it was worth the wait.
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Very well written
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I really enjoyed the first diary of Adrian Mole. It was interesting, well-written, funny and kept my attention throughout the book.
The diaries of Adrian Mole are about a boy called Adrian Mole (not surprisingly!). He writes in his diary every day about love, parents, family, Bert (the old man he goes to visit), the Dog (the Dog never has a name, he is always refered to as The Dog) and many other things.
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