I can't deny I've been putting off finishing this one for a while now. Despite its excruciating romantic plots, "...Mass Destruction" once again left Adrian happy and loved. A few years on and reality has come crashing back in with a strained marriage, stroppy daughter, mooching half-brother, son...
Sue Townsend does no wrong. Had such a good laugh reading the book. Started off brilliantly and then after half way it got a bit surreal and lost its humour a bit
Tko bi rekao da je nekad prištavi 13-3/4-godišnjak Adrian Mole danas na pragu četrdesete? Moram priznati da sam se iznenadio da Townsendica i dalje piše svoju nekadašnju hit-franšizu kad sam je ugledao na kiosku!? Ovo možda nisam očekivao, da Adrian nije ostvario nijednu svoju mladenačku (spisate...
It's not the best Adrian Mole book, but even the worst Mole books are still good. It's slightly disjointed, but I put this down to the fact that it was first serialised in a newspaper before being collected and published as a volume. But this doesn't stop it being a funny read, even if slightly i...
Wasn't sure how to rate this book. It read OK, although I had to take quite a long break towards the end (just didn't have time to read), which I think messed with its flow a bit. I didn't like the ending. Not sure if I just didn't "get" it, but it was dissatisfying. I didn't find it very humorou...
Se que a muchas personas no les gustó este libro, pero yo debo darle las 5 estrellas. Este libro es sumamente distinto, es cierto, no es cómico, pero hay tanto en el.Leer un libro no es sólo interpretar lo que está escrito, sino también lo que no está, "leer entre líneas".En la obra se muestran f...
Adrian’s latest adventure is set in 1997-1998; the longest gap between instalments but coming at an ideal time to read Mr. Mole’s diary. Not only is he now at the landmark age of 30, but this is the year of the New Labour landslide and the death of Princess Diana, among others.As “together” as Ad...
I was around 13¾ years of age when I first read this novel, so I only had a couple of vague recollections about it. But I definitely remembered that I liked it, so I re-read it, and I still like it a lot, for many reasons.First of all, I like it because this novel is really laugh-out-loud funny. ...
Adrian on the verge of Adulthood26 August 2013tThis continues on with the tradition of the first book that Townsend wrote and follows Adrian's life as he continues to struggle as a teenager in Britain in the 1980s. The series does continue on right up to the Iraq War and it appears that throughou...
“But the truth was, dear diary, I remembered Animal Farm as being a book simply about animals on a farm” No, the Monthly Book Group had not met to give their informed criticism of George Orwell’s classic; rather the book was “Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction” (2004) and the quote i...
Po raz kolejny muszę chwilę pomarudzić nad tym, że nie ma tu możliwości zaznaczania tylko części gwiazdek, tak, aby ocena wynosiła dwa i pół albo dwa i trzy czwarte. Rozpiętość między „była w porządku” a „podobała mi się”, w momencie, kiedy jedno oznacza dwa na pięć, a drugie trzy na pięć, w przy...
Just the sort of book I love; flawed, strong, likeable heroine, full of eccentric, random, unlikely, funny madness, with supporting cast of goodies and baddies. Full of twists and turns, very fresh, fast paced, thoroughly enjoyed. Would have 5 star'd it but the end was just too rushed and the nov...
I don't know what to say about this book.It's...sick. I know what you're thinking, but not sick sick, just... shows an ugly side of people. But a side every person has, nonetheless. Well, obviously not necessarily expressed the same way as the ugly side of the characters in this book, but still.T...
About a month ago I was getting ready for work, one morning, and I heard, on the radio, that Sue Townsend had just died and while my usual routine of getting out of the house is ‘rushed’ (polite term for anything but) I stood still for the very briefest of moments. You know when everything stops ...
In this book, I both identified wit the character, and loved to hate him. The book is written in first person, in the form of a diary and tells the story of Adrian Mole, a completely unsuccesful 24 year old, who is horribly analitic and thinks that he's awfully tallented while he is writing the w...
I have no idea how this book came to see the light of day (a wild guess: someone somewhere might have thought that it would be good to publish a random something in between two "regular" books), and I'm not going to search the web to find this out, because I think an average Adrian Mole novel is ...
British writer Sue Townsend has already earned her place in popular culture with the character of Adrian Mole, whose diaries defined angst for the generation who grew up in Commonwealth countries when Margeret Thatcher ruled from 10 Downing Street. Fans will be pleased to learn that her latest no...
Lamenting the decline in all crucial welfare services during ten years of Thatcher rule, the author warns that this dream may fast becoming a Conservative nightmare. The book is supplemented by statistics that indicate the damage done by the last decade of the Thatcher government. Townsend's anec...