Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years - Sue Townsend Reviews

Why has this book been written? Townsend's previous Mole encounter, 'The Wilderness Years' tied the series up in a pretty neat conclusion with a sufficient air of finality. This new book unnecessarily destroys what had been a quite satsifactory conclusion to a funny and popular series. 'Cappucino' lacks the 'Private Eye' political satire of ...  Read the complete review

Although I read the two original Adrian Mole books many times growing up I'd never actually got around to reading any of the 'adult' Mole books until very recently. I started with The Wilderness Years and then moved onto the book I'm reviewing here, Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, the fifth book in the series. This one starts in 19997 and ...  Read the complete review

Did Sue Townsend run out of fucking money again?? - Advantages: Got my money back - Disadvantages: Drivel, Toss, Shit

Adrian Mole is a make believe character created by Sue Townsend, who also wrote the hilarious The Queen and I. At the beginning of this book he is aged thirty and a quarter. I will outline his current situation when this book begins. Adrian works as a chef in Soho, and lives in the upstairs room of the restaurant. His family live in ...  Read the complete review

This book is brilliant - I bought it when it first came out and I must have read it 20 times over! It is written in the same style as all the previous books in the series, and he hasn't changed much at all over the past 16½ years! Unfortunately, the TV series was very disappointing in comparison to the book as it was boring, ...  Read the complete review

"Adrian Mole: The Cappucino Years" is a good book but I was personally a little bit let down. It's a good humourous book but for Adrian Mole my expectations were higher. The fact Adrian has now grown up makes it more difficult for him to be so funny I think. My favourite Adrian Mole books are the first two, when he is at ...  Read the complete review

I've never read an Adrian Mole book before, and so starting with what appears to be the latest (last?) of the series is a little bit weird. I am grounded though, as I vaguely remember parts of the original TV series' (I never saw the series for this - and maybe glad after the reviews for that here), and back in the 80's, this whole Sue ...  Read the complete review

When adrian mole was young he was alot funnier. When the tv programme of the growing pains of adrian mole came out we were all laughing our socks off. But as soon as the cappuccino came on we stopped. WHAT HAPPENED!. Even the books voiced this. When I read the earlier books by Sue Townsend I was chuckling every time I turned the page, but when I ...  Read the complete review

In this book we follow the fortunes of a grown up Adrian Mole. Has he changed much since his teenage years it seems not. In 'The Wilderness Years' Pandora describes Adrian as being 'caught in a time warp' and it appears that he is. He is still 'profoundly in love with Pandora', Barry Kent is still his arch rival and ...  Read the complete review

Adrian Mole as a child was funny, insightful and entertaining. It is a shame that this is not the case in the cappucino years. I believe that there are certain characteristics that we keep from childhood, but Adrian does not appear to have matured in the slightest. I have also to admit that the descriptions of the workers in the ...  Read the complete review

The return of Adtrian Mole, the man who has redefined the definition of 'T.V. chef.'After the phenomenal successes of the first three books in the Mole Dynasty, Adrian returns after a 6 year break with as many worries as ever. It is extremely hard to write a synopsis of the book as it virtually follows the the same formula as her ...  Read the complete review

If you can read, then I am sure you have read Sue Townsend`s past Mole books. This one is just as good as the last and now the BBC has given it a new sparkle, who knows where Adrian is going next. I finished reading the book on Saturday and if you are wondering about the strange boy on the bike or thinking isn`t Adrian a nastly piece of work ...  Read the complete review

Adrian Mole is, once again, back in our lives - but this time he's a 30 yr old offal chef working in 'Hoi Polloi' Restaurant in Soho, London, and addicted to Opal Fruits! He is also a father to William, half Nigerian. Jo-Jo, Adrian's wife (whom are both now seperated), has moved back to Nigeria. William lives with ...  Read the complete review

Dear old Adrian is now 30 years old and I have read all of the books since his first diary was published. Adrian has not changed so in those 17 years. He still carries the world on his shoulders but now he worries about different things. The spots have now cleared up but unfortuantly the family trait of baldness is starting to rear its ...  Read the complete review

Another great book from Susan Townsend that has the right balance of humour and realism. Witty and humorous in places this is probably the best Adrian Mole book so far. Now Adrian is 30 and a single parent his wife’s left him for Nigeria. Adrian works as a chef in London. Adrian soon works his way up from a trendy Soho restaurant to become a ...  Read the complete review

Dear old Adrian is now 30 years old and I havent read any of the books since his first diary was published. So has Adrian changed much in those 17 years? Well the answer is no he hasnt. He still carries the world on his shoulders but now he worries about different things. The spots have now cleared up but unfortuantly the family trait of ...  Read the complete review

I've read this book before and didn't think it was very good, it left a lot to the imagination which was a good point but apart from that the book didn't enspire me and it didn't make me want to read any of his other books, or any other books for that matter. Some books are interesting but there are books that just are really ...  Read the complete review

Adrian Mole is now 30 ¼ and it is May 1 1997. Adrian’s life is very different from the last time we met him. He is now a celebrity offal chef and he has one, maybe two sons. However, some things never change – he is still worrying and has still failed to get his novel “Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland” (renamed ...  Read the complete review

I first became addicted to this hilarious series of books around two years ago. I was the same age as Adrian at the time, and understood everything that was written, aswell as filling the whole house with laughter as i went. When this book came out, i had purchased it within two days, and read it within one. Every other line i was in absolute ...  Read the complete review

I first got into the Adrian Mole thing aged 6 when the original book was serialised on Radio 4, and now have got the full set of the books. Everyone can identify with Adrian, who of course is blissfully oblivious of the pathetic nature of his existence. The cappucino years further shows his fall from grace, having originally been a ...  Read the complete review