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The fifth book in our series of readings from Adrians diaries, written by Sue Townsend, It starts inand covers the controversial period of the Iraq War,

Adrian is, working in a bookshop in Leicester and about to become the proud owner of a trendy loft apartment.
His single status is about to change too, putting further strain on his already stretched finances, As war looms, Adrian is unwavering in his support for Prime Minister Tony Blair and military action, even though his eldest son Glenn is facing deployment to the Gulf.


Sue Townsend was born in Leicester in, She left school atand was a single parent with three young children by the age of, Like Adrian, she wrote in secret for many years, and acknowledged that they often shared the same views Adrian "Cest moi," she once said.


First published in, Adrian Moles diaries were instant bestsellers and Adrian, the remarkably resilient underdog, quickly became a national treasure.
While recording the experiences of one individual and showcasing Sue's fearless and razor sharp wit, the diaries also illustrate how sociopolitical matters of the time affected the lives of ordinary people.


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Reader: Harry McEntire
Abridger: Sara Davies
Producer: Alexa Moore

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Easy read. Idea behind the Title is a novel one, Crap finish though. As though the author suddenly decided right enoughs enough, I still marvel at how one person can have so much go wrong with their life, If nothing else made me feel a little happier about where I am, I feel like I've grown up with Adrian Mole, I've been following his exploits since I wasyears old, and as a character fixed in time, he's a year or two older than me.


This book chronicles Adrian's life in, age, with the backdrop of the war in Iraq, He worries about hisyearold son, who has joined the army and has been deployed to Kuwait, he struggles with a debt problem that's spiralling out of control, and still his love life is as disastrous as ever he's trying to extricate himself from the clutches of a needy, clingy young woman called Marigold, whilst fancying her freespirited sexy sister Daisy.


Adrian Mole is a comic character, and it's his flaws and foibles that we laugh about, But ultimately his heart is in the right place, and that's why we're fond of him, In a way it's good that as Adrian grows older he growns no wiser, and he retains the ability to make us laugh.
And the fact that Adrian's life is always such a disaster is a source of some reassurance no matter how bad life gets, it's never as bad as Adrian Mole's.
I first read the Adrian Mole diaries when I was at school but soon stopped reading them, However, at my book swap, I noticed this one on the table and thought I would revisit Mole and see how his life had progressed, as it were.
Basically, this is an ok book a standard Adrian Mole story amusing at times but not laughoutloud funny, Adrian has grownup sort of but still takes no responsibility for his life, Some fo the situations he found himself in were frustrating you just wanted him to take control of his life and stop being such an idiot.
The amount of times he found himself doing something or agreeing to something against his better judgement was annoying.
If you knew Adrian Mole in real life, you would probably want to slap him, There are a couple of semipoignant moments during the book, but, on the whole, this is harmless fluff, A clever and witty book, People associate Mole with the eighties but for me he depicted the nineties and never more acutely than in this book.
Adrian's naivety about Blair and the frustration when he realises Blair's craven, blinkered solipsism mirrors well the national fall from grace in this era.
The narrative pressure comes, as ever, from Mole needing to get away from some bad relationship and though the payoff here doesn't quite land I still tore through this in a couple of days, which shows how great a writer Townsend was.
There are so many subtleties here, Entertaining as always! I enjoyed this even more after my second reading of this title, Townsend was such a clever writer, and her stories are just so engaging! Adrian atampquarters is his usual conflicted selftrying to get out of a pending marriage with Marigold, going madly into debt to buy a lifestyle, supporting Tony Blair in the war on Iraq, fighting off the attacking swans outside his loft on Rat Wharf in Leicester.


Sue Townsend writes really funny books, Still a masterpiece after all these years, How I miss Sue Townsend and wish she could report the current shower through Adrian's eyes, Her writing is so witty and her characterisation is so economical but effective: Michael Flowers and his mostly dreadful family are perfectly balanced with the more serious storylines of Adrian's money troubles and Glenn in Basra.
Perfect comfort reading while still acerbic, Miss you Sue. I don't know how she does it, but Townsend has kept Adrian Mole fresh, funny, and touching all these years, since sitelinkThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged/.
Here Adrian is in his thirties, with two sons, one in the army, one in Africa with his mother his relationship with the son in the army is particularly welldone, as Glenn goes to Iraq and Adrian, previously a supporter of the war, becomes uncertain of his feelings about it.
As usual, Adrian gets into more messes than he can handle, romantically and financially, and many of the old cast of characters appear: Pandora, Nigel, Adrian's parents, even Barry Kent.
I don't believe in guilty pleasures because it's weird to feel guilt about something you like, But the Adrian Mole books are a silly pleasure to me, especially the latter ones, when the teenage whining has made way for his adult troubles.
I do think he is one of the great comic characters in the British canon, even though his books flounder a bit when it comes to writing.
I've found it very addictive, in fact, i think the same about every other Adrian Mole diaries that I've read so far.
It also refers, along all the extension of it's pages, to a lot of personalities related to literature, politics, etc I did not realize there were several Adrian Mole books and while I did recognize a few references to earlier storylines that I of course did not have the background knowledge on while reading this book, I did not feel in any way lost because I had not started with the first book.

I found this story entertaining and I enjoyed the diary entry format,
With that said, I cannot see myself rushing out to locate the rest of the series, This was a good one off light read, I am deducting one star because the general politics of the book is a strangely British combination of donothingism and liberal fetish.
But I am still a bit awestruck that Townsend wrote a book of this size with a humour that never, ever got tedious, even with the politics, on a beach in eastern Europe withlesser books cycling through my brain.
It's possible I am the most demanding of all when it comes to humour, and I have such an absolutely begrudging, absolutely astonished admiration for this style of picaresque in diary form, that I am sharing my admiration for your potential pleasure, even if the politics once made

me entirely skip this review.
This is yet another laughoutloud Adrian Mole diary, This time he begins the diary at the age of, but he is still the same earnest, pedantic, letterwriting Adrian.


He has moved away from his flaky parents home into a pricey loft apartment on Rat Wharf, not realizing that theres a reason for the “rat” appellation.
It could also have been called “Aggressive Swan Wharf” for that matter, but well get back to that later.


Adrian is a great admirer of Tony Blair and a staunch believer in the existence of Saddams weapons of mass destruction, and is thus a supporter of Britain going to war.


He is a wouldbe published writer but hasnt as yet achieved any success in that field he is working on a book to be entitled “Celebrity and madness” but neither has he yet persuaded any celebrity to allow him to interview him or her on that subject, not surprisingly, considering the title.


Adrian is the arranger of a creative writing group that meets regularly though he does not wholly appreciate the literary efforts of the others.
One of the members is the elderly Gladys, who keeps writing soppy poems about cats, such as:

“Poor Blackies up in Heaven,
God took her life away,
He said, youll go to Devon,
And have a holiday.
”

Unfortunately, he has little success in persuading celebrities to visit the group and give a talk as far as I recall, Cherie Blair doesn't even deign to reply to his letter.
Thus, the group rapidly dwindles to only two,

Adrian has two sons, Glenn,, who is in basic training in the army, and in danger of being sent off to war in Iraq, and a younger son, William, who now lives with his mother in Nigeria.


Glenn writes frequent letters to Adrian, but unlike his verbally proficient father, Glenn is sadly lacking in basic grammar and spelling skills.


Adrian is still madly in love with his childhood sweetheart, Pandora, who is now a junior minister and a household name.
He somehow becomes involved with a woman called Marigold and then with her sister, Daisy, even though Marigold is insisting that he marry her.
There are numerous complications.

He furnishes his loft apartment with stylish new furniture not to mention curtains for his glass lavatory, whose seethrough walls are extremely irritating for the prudish Adrian but he does so through the kind services of MasterCard and Barclaycard who insist on forcing him to accept thousands of pounds in credit and sending him blank cheques this, of course, leads to poor Adrian getting into a pretty pickle as far as his finances are concerned.


It now only remains to mention the aggressive swans that inhabit the canal adjacent to Adrians abode.
The leader of the pack, Gielgud, is “particularly vicious” and takes an instant dislike to Adrian, The town council member to whom Adrian complains fails to understand the problem they wont help him get rid of the swans but will grant him help with conflict resolution work with his supposed neighbour, Mr.
Swan, whom they understand to be the source of the problem,

There are many more complications and convolutions in Adrians story, including the problems of his parents who cant find out which romantic partners they wish to have, and those of his gay, blind friend, Nigel.


The book is brilliantly written and uproarious and reminds us of what was going on in Britain and the world inand.
The main theme concerns, of course, Adrians obsession with the weapons of mass destruction and the war in Iraq.

I listened to the audio version of this, A funny and easy one to listen to, I love how Adrian often sends nonsense letters to the Prime Minister and celebrities fully expecting that they will reply to him!
This is the eighth book about Adrian Mole don't ask.
. . who started his literary life in, at the age of thirteen and three quarters, The series of books has kept pace with his age and it feels as though it is winding down.
The running joke about the inept Adrian is wearing a bit thin, and to put him in the idiotic situation of writing letters to the prime minister so that he can get a refund on his upcoming foreign holiday, seems too ludicrously contrived to be funny.


The book was written at the time when Tony Blair warned that Saddam Husseins weapons of mass destruction could target the island of Cyprus inminutes.
Perhaps you had to "be there", At this distance in time it all seems tiresome and irrelevant, Perhaps it is the sort of flash in the pan book which is wryly amusing just for a few months, and then would disappear without trace unless it is part of a series.


I do not read books about party politics, nor reviews of them, nor usually comment, But this has made me wonder if there are many such humorous books about Brexit, and what chance there is that any future readers will read them or even talk about the event in fifteen years' time.
Kind of puts it all in perspective,

I read very little of the book, so hesitate to rate it, However, one star is my default for abandoned books, It would very probably come out at less than one star if I forced myself to plough through the thing, so one star is what I must put.
Two on Goodreads is an "OK" rating, but there is no way in which this would be OK reading for me.
Apologies to those who get their humour from party politics, or depictions of feebly plodding, very English, middleaged, middleclass men and the women who surround and bemuse them, or those who just love the series.
Please do not let my boredom put you off,

The series started on a high note, but for me it has now fizzled out, I have just one more book about Adrian Mole, but my hopes are not high, Adrian Mole can be a funny character at times,
Earlier I had read The Cappuccino Years and found it fairly interesting,

I expected this to be a political satire, But it's not really about Bush and Blair's invasion of Iraq on the pretext of Saddam stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.


Adrian Mole writes to Blair to provide some evidence of the existence of the WMDs, He worries that his son could be deployed to Iraq,

But mostly it is about Adrian Mole's life and other things, There is the odd funny line here and there,but is hard work trying to dig it out,

Very disappointing. .