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Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (Adrian Mole #4)
by
Sue Townsend
Mole is back. The fourth novel in the massively popular Adrian Mole series, from internationally bestselling author Sue Townsend. Once again she lets us delve into the hilarious and touching life of a character adored by millions everywhere. Adrian Mole has at last reached physical maturity, but he can't help roaming the pages of his diary like an untamed adolescent. Final...more
Hardcover, 182 pages
Published
August 31st 1993
by Methuen Publishing Company
(first published 1993)
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I really read the book but this says audio. This is my favorite all time book. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Funny. A british nerds diary. what more can I say?
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Mar 26, 2012
Karolina
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Shelves:
humour,
read-in-english
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People have said here that they were fascinated and repulsed by the character, and wanted to avoid being like him at all costs. Well guess what, there are people like Adrian Mole out there, and I'm one of them--so close in fact that this book stopped being funny when I realised as I read on that I am becoming exactly like him ... or he is becoming exactly like me. Well, at least until I got to the part where someone called the novel he is working on, Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland, a parody....more
Poor Adrian Mole... In his teenage years, he was amusing and endearing. In his twenties, he is pretentious, annoying, pedantic, and the kind of guy you'd probably end up punching if you knew him. I'm not sure if I'm going to get on with him as he ages... He annoyed me so much in this book that I started hoping he would get mugged by someone, just to give him something genuine to moan about (and also so at least someone would get to punch him). I will stick with him and read on, but sadly he seem...more
As always, I greatly enjoyed reading this installment of the Adrian Mole chronicles – maybe even more so than the previous books. Unfortunately, I seemed to have skipped the third in the series, Adrian Mole: Minor to Major, reading the piece of crap teaser/compilation of unreleased essays, The True Stories of Adrian Albert Mole, instead. The mistake was mine alone; however, because I already requested this novel through ILL, I decided to go ahead and work my way through the book that I had in ha...more
Adrian goes from ages 23 to 25 in this fourth entry in the series. From Leicester to Oxford to London to Greece, he's certainly taking some journeys.
There are times in the first two-thirds of the book that I find it hard to believe a person could be so obtuse. When I was that age, young men assumed that if you looked in their direction, you wanted nothing less than to have their babies; there's a girl here who does everything but jump him and he doesn't get it.
The last third of the story is re...more
There are times in the first two-thirds of the book that I find it hard to believe a person could be so obtuse. When I was that age, young men assumed that if you looked in their direction, you wanted nothing less than to have their babies; there's a girl here who does everything but jump him and he doesn't get it.
The last third of the story is re...more
As I mentioned in my review of the first novel in this series, I love these books. I absolutely adore them.
That aside, I warn anybody who has read the first three and is about to delve into this one - aside from its humor, this is where the series gets more grown up and a little more realistic in Adrian's tragedies. On reading bits of it again this weekend I actually found it saddening more than funny - but that shouldn't put anybody off because I've read it several times and it's a funny, funny...more
Apr 19, 2007
Joanne
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2 of 5 stars
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I don't really recommend it
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 worst novel in the world.
He is really scary and creepy, something about the way he views things and reacts to people is almost autistic and it crept me out. It gave the whole book a sort of macabric humou...more
He is really scary and creepy, something about the way he views things and reacts to people is almost autistic and it crept me out. It gave the whole book a sort of macabric humou...more
Watching the Tuesday Book Club the other night, they were talking about their favourite comedy books and this just happens to be one of mine. Adrian is oblivious at how annoying and petty he is but his arrogance really makes me laugh and this particular book at least had a happy ending. From love lost to love found to love lost again and everyday situations satirised. I couldn't put this down! I read it in 2 days! Can't wait to read the next in the series!
Picked this up on Saturday morning whilst 'er indoors was still in bed and didn't put it down until I had polished it off. Long time since I'd done that. Read the first two books YEARS ago and only realised I also had the third book after I had finished this.
Mole continues being utterly clueless with women, anal beyond belief, utterly pretentious, with an incredibly inflated sense of his own intellectualism.
The scary thing (for me, that is) is that I increasingly recognise myself in Townsend's...more
Mole continues being utterly clueless with women, anal beyond belief, utterly pretentious, with an incredibly inflated sense of his own intellectualism.
The scary thing (for me, that is) is that I increasingly recognise myself in Townsend's...more
I love this. Adrian, Pauline and George are on fine form, and some good new characters are introduced, albeit some of them only for a brief time: Bianca, JoJo, Cassandra and the staff of Savages. (Am I the only one who wishes JoJo stayed on as a character? By the next book, (view spoiler))
Adrian Mole, erstwhile novelist and self-styled intellectual, returns for a fourth installment of his diaries.
While the first 3/4 of this book was more or less filled with the same whining naivety of the preceeding volume of this series, I was pleased with the final quarter in which Adrian seems to finally be growing up. Not a moment too soon. I am now vindicated in having purchased the entire series and am looking forward to the next volume.
While the first 3/4 of this book was more or less filled with the same whining naivety of the preceeding volume of this series, I was pleased with the final quarter in which Adrian seems to finally be growing up. Not a moment too soon. I am now vindicated in having purchased the entire series and am looking forward to the next volume.
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"He asked how I had taken it.
I said, 'Oh me, I'm fine,' and then big, fat tears rolled down my cheeks and into the electronic workings of the telephone handset. My father kept saying, down the phone, 'There, there, lad. There, there, don't cry, lad,' in a tender voice that I don't remember him using before."
I said, 'Oh me, I'm fine,' and then big, fat tears rolled down my cheeks and into the electronic workings of the telephone handset. My father kept saying, down the phone, 'There, there, lad. There, there, don't cry, lad,' in a tender voice that I don't remember him using before."
I picked this up at the free book exchange at Rancho Nicasio in Marin--which incidentally is a great place to hear good live music.
It's precious in the best sense, hilarious, poignant. Great find. I am going to start at the beginning and read the whole series. I would be dumb not to.
It's precious in the best sense, hilarious, poignant. Great find. I am going to start at the beginning and read the whole series. I would be dumb not to.
I think this is the fourth Adrian Mole book I have read and, by rights, I ought to be getting fed up with the joke by now. It still made me laugh, though, which pays tribute to Sue Townsend's comic skill. Her characters are larger than life, but we all know people like this (don't we?)
Sue Townsendin kirjasarjan neljäs osa "Maailma murjoo, Hadrianus"(Otava, 1994) vie lukijansa 1990-luvun alkupuolelle, jolloin Adrian Mole on noin kahdenkymmenenviiden, ja joutuu jo kyseenalaistamaan voidaanko häntä enää "Ah! Kotiseutuni matalat vuoret!" -esikoisromaanin ilmestymisen jälkeen nimittää nuoreksi keskienglantilaiseksi kirjailijaksi. Mikäli teos nyt koskaan valmistuu.
Epäonnistuneet ihmissuhteet (mukaan luettuna nuoruudenrakkaus Pandora), surkea työpaikka ympäristöministeriön vesilisko...more
Epäonnistuneet ihmissuhteet (mukaan luettuna nuoruudenrakkaus Pandora), surkea työpaikka ympäristöministeriön vesilisko...more
I didn't really enjoy this Adrian Mole. He is grown up, but still behaves like he is 13 and 3/4s. I thought he was a complete dick and needed to grow up.
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A little uneven, but still classic Adrian.
I think it's sweet that there seems to be a happy ending on the horizon for our long-suffering hero. But who knows what the future will bring?
I think it's sweet that there seems to be a happy ending on the horizon for our long-suffering hero. But who knows what the future will bring?
I really enjoyed this one that I missed back in the day. I've read most of the others over the years. This book has reminded me how funny Townsend is - brilliantly written with wicked wit. I am now determined to read the whole lot of them again (only this time in the right order..!)
Love, love, love this book! Read and reread it at least 5 times. Great British humor. A must-read if you want something witty and semi-nerdy.
The first 70 pages or so were funny to me, but then the tricks get old and Adrian too infuriating for me to go on laughing at his goofiness.
One of my favourite Mole books (even though, as I re-read them, I find I'm not that fond of them on the whole anymore). Still, this is engaging and funny - and what more can you expect.
loved the first two books think this one is where it started goin wrong for me. Jokes got old got repeative and just not as enjoyable.
This might be my favourite one. Hilarious as per usual, and even when Adrian is at his lowest, the book still cheers you up.
Another fun, light read in this wonderful series. I'll be on to the next one soon!
while it is amusing in some places, the writing style of the adrian mole series has grown tedious
An improvement over the previous release but at times you really do want to give a slap.
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Susan Lillian "Sue" Townsend is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Adrian Mole series of books. Her writing tends to combine comedy with social commentary, though she has written purely dramatic works as well. She has suffered from diabetes for many years, a...more
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