This guy makes Bridget Jones seem like an upbeat person... (The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend)

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Product:	The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend
Date:	06/06/01 (474 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Very Funny

Disadvantages: Very short

This diary barely gives you time to catch your breath from one joke before knocking you down with another. Each entry is filled with the worry and angst of every teenage boy. Is this spot getting bigger? Why isn't this getting bigger?!!

Adrian Mole is an average teenage boy living with a screwball family in a crazy neighbourhood. His arguing mother and father may well be alcoholics, his dog may be clinically insane and his friend Nigel is most likely gay, but all this seems to pass Adrian by as he fawns over the love of his life Pandora.

Along the way he meets a remarkable range of characters: Bert Baxter, a crusty old man whom Adrian must take care of. Sabre, Bert's gigantic alsation. Hamish Mancini, an amazingly cocky and loud American who Adrian meets on holiday not to mention an entire neighbourhood of funny yet slightly strange people.

Adrian also believes himself to be an intellectual and frequently writes hilariously terrible poems which he enters into the diary at an alarming rate. He also sends these off to the poor people at the BBC.

This diary's main strong point is the forming of a very clear view of each character. They seem so alive and people very like them can be found by looking in any street in the country. Yet whether they'll be quite as funny as these ones is a different story.

I strongly reccomend buying this book but if you do, buy two copies. The first will be soaked in tears of laughter about half-way through.

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