Adrian Mole returns in the sequel to the classic ‘The Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ ’ - 'The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole'.

First published in 1984, the book remains popular and is well worth a read , especially if you agree that a laugh a day keeps the doctor away. The diary format works well, inviting you as a reader to step in the shoes of a British teenager in the 1980’s. I found it difficult to put the book down, having begun it again after an earlier craze when the book first came out. It More...

Adrian Mole is now 15 years old—and unfortunately his nose is swollen due to an experimental sniff of glue which resulted in his inadvertent attachment to a model aeroplane. The drama between his parents intensifies in this installment—his mom is pregnant and so is Doreen Slater aka Stick Insect (the woman his father dated while his mother was living with Mr. Lucas aka Creep Lucas). To add insult to injury, Adrian’s intellectual-status goes further unrecognized when Barry Kent wins the Youth Clu More...

Well THIS was certainly a pleasant surprise! “The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole” was much more developed and humorous than its predecessor. Unlike 13¾, Growing Pains had me chuckling aloud and earned me some strange looks from my family. Adrian's pitiful saga continues as his parents' marriage goes up, up, up, and down-diddly-down, like the roller-coasters in the theme parks that pass as the Brits' version of Disneyland. His romance with Pandora produces much joy and even more angst, as his fickl More...

The second in a series of popular epistolary novels starring the Adrian Mole of the title, a precocious, neurotic, anxiety-prone drama queen of an English adolescent living in the early 1980s. Adrian leads a chaotic life in a poor and disorganized working class family. Both parents have on and off lovers, and babies of questionable parentage pop up now and then. Adrian is romantically entangled with classmate Penelope Braithwaite, but seems to be in love with being in love as much as he is in lo More...

Ini adalah buku kedua dari serial diary-nya Adrian Mole. Karena aku belum pernah membaca buku pertamanya, jadinya tidak tahu kenapa si Adrian ini kok menulis diary. Tidak seperti Diary Putra Raja atau Diary Musuh Geng Kodok-nya Jessica Green yang menceritakan segala sesuatu dengan panjang lebar, diary-nya Adrian ini seperti orang menulis diary sesungguhnya: pendek-pendek, seperti tidak ada kaitan antar entry, dan persis seperti juga kita hidup, masalah tidak selesai dalam sehari atau seminggu at More...

This book is so much like the one which precedes it that I find it difficult to write an entirely separate review. This is (most of) what I had to say about The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4: "Adrian Mole, precocious British teenager, self-professed intellectual, and diarist tells us of his trials and tribulations. His musings are funny, sweet, and ultimately poignant.
Adrian is such a real and believable character that it's hard to believe he sprung from the mind of a middle-aged woma More...

This is a great continuation of the tale of Master Mole.

The story telling has grown up along with Adrian. The trivial matters from the first book start to evolve and Adrian has to realise that he is growing up. That doesn't mean that he is getting smarter though.. he is still clueless about a few things, but then again weren't we all at 14/15 years old.

I am really enjoying the fact that these books are in my library. They really do take me back to a nostalgic time when reading was all about enjo More...

Adrian grows up—a little. He’s still a teenager, still obsessed with Pandora, sex and the size of his thing, but his “intellectualism” forces him to view the world in much wider terms. New additions to his family, the immorality of the world and his complicated relationship with his upright girlfriend make Adrian Mole even more interesting to read than in the previous novel. Still pretentious, still yearning for attention, still striving to make time for others while getting his “O” levels, Adri More...

Like many sequels, it does pretty much what the first book does, only slightly better.



Obviously, it lacks some of the originality of the first book but it's still a charming read - and I think some of the humour works much better in this second outing for Adrian.



This episode deals with the death of the elderly, marital problems, illegitimate children, teenage depression, politics in a recession - all with the humour you would expect of an Adrian Mole book.



Again, I would recommend as a quick, non More...

But, I actually want to give this book 3.75 stars without rounding it up to four - so three it is.

So, Adrian Mole, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways, but quickly because my laptop is dying and I can't muster the energy to go upstairs and get my charger. Yes, it has come to this. I'm THAT wiped out tonight.

1. You are hysterical. Flat out awkward, whiny, obnoxious, pretension and endearing.
2. Your family-situation is completely effed. I love that your parents show disdain for you. I love More...

Adrian Mole is an average kid. Going through horomones, and going through girl problems, his life can be kind of rough! So his life can get a little rough! Adrian soon enough gets a younger sister named Rosie, his parents are bankrupt and his girlfriend is moving on. The conflicts in Adrian's life are that Adrian doesnt really know who to turn too, like he cannot go to his parents, or his sister. So, he is kind of like a lost soul.

I can connect this to any young person going through puberty and More...

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Second entry in the hilarious Adrian Mole series. He's coming up on age 16 now, and still as angst-ridden as he was in the first book. This is so accurate. I'm not SO far away from my own teen years that I'm not able to recognize the behavior as my own at that time. Very witty and all the more surprising as it comes from an adult woman writing about the feelings of a teenage boy. Genius. My only caveat is th More...

Picking up the day after “The Secret Diary” ended, this volume contains plenty of turmoil in Adrian’s life - his mum and Stick Insect are both pregnant, which leads to the break-up of his parents marriage, there’s paternity issues on his sister Rosie (rat fink Lucas maintains she is his), his relationship with Pandora hits the rocks and he briefly ends up in Baz’s street gang, before running away to Manchester. Slightly darker in tone than the first volume - the Falklands War is dealt with well More...

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This is a coming of age (literally) novel surrounding the diary of Adrian Mole, a now 15 year old prepubescent boy who is learning to control his hormones, and work with and around his family problems at the same time as stabilising a relationship with a girl, who he believes is his one and only. This is a quick and easy read, and I found myself outwardly chuckling on various occasions as it is very to the point and quite witty for a boy that age.

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Reading,for me,is like watching TV and I wanted to be entertained by series of books, well, for a while..
So I picked up 5 books; The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4, Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years, Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years.

- I quite enjoyed reading his diary and the way he describe people, and of course, his poems!
I am now onto "The secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4".

I was overjoyed when I found this at a second hand book shop. I had read "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole" when I was 12 and found it an hilarious book, and I am pleased to say that the second installment is just as enjoyable for me 17 years later. Sue Townsend is an incredibly witty writer and I am struggling to remember when I have laughed out loud so much while reading a book. Brilliant.

Funnier than the first book. This series has the right humour quotient to be pitted against 'The diary of a wimpy kid' series. The situations that Adrian faces are hilarious and the responses these situations eke out of him are outrageously comical. His intellectualism is a recipe for a laugh-riot.
However the end should have been somewhat constructive. The abrupt conclusion (hinting at a sequel like bad first films in a trilogy) is not something this book deserved.

Brilliant! I haven't read this since the late 80s, and it was even better than I remembered - better than its predecessor, which is an achievment. Adrian just gets even more confused, more pretentious, and more mixed up. The book is very much 'of its time,' but certainly doesn't feel dated (but then, I rememeber Rumbelows to me. But, if this book is dated, then so am I. And proud of it :-)

I didn't enjoy this quite as much as the first one, but it was still pretty good. The characters in these books are excellent and SO real, not to mention quite hilarious, and I particularly enjoyed seeing how Adrian's parents' relationship evolved over the novel. I think the books suffer from pacing issues at time (this one moreso than the last), but overall they're well done.

This is the sequel to The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3 4 and is pretty much a direct continuation of the first book, given that it starts on the day after the first book ended. Like the first, it's lighthearted, silly, and charming.

I picked up a copy of the second Adrian Mole book at a recent BookCrossing meeting. As I was reading the first book at the time I brought home the second to read.

Growing Pains covers the aftermath of the first book. Adrian loses his status as an only child to be the brother to a sister and the half brother to the child of his father's mistress. His sister might also be a half sister if she was conceived during his mother's brief affair.

The book takes him to adulthood (16 in Britain) and rather More...

První dva díly moleovské ságy mám hodně ráda (tenhle víc). Když jsem je četla ve "třinácti a tři čtvrtě", bavila jsem se hlavně lapáliemi hlavního hrdiny, zpětně jsem pak deníky docenila i jako zdroj nejrůznějších humorných poznatků a pozorování z prostředí thatcherovské Británie. Pod jejich vlivem jsem se opakovaně pokoušela nějaké deníky sama psát, první začínal nějak takhle: "Dnes jsem vrátila lístek na oběd a šla si do papírnictví koupit tenhle deník."

I love all the Adrian Mole books, but because this is the first one I read, it is my sentimental favourite. I loved it first time round because of the characters, but having studied 1980s Britain for my History A-Level, I can also see the references to the turmoil the UK was going through at the time as well. A great read.

Hilariously funny. Bittersweet experiences of a teenage boy that made me wonder what it would be like for my babies when they get to that age...at least 6 years to go...imagine they will have the same type of dramas...school, crushes, peer pressure, sensitivity to other people's needs (or not), parents...comforting in a way.

Couldn't put it down. Read within a week. It's right up there with High Fidelity, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, and The Catcher in the Rye. Looking forward to reading the two other books in the series (there are about 8 apparently) which I found in the same bargain bin as this one.

It has been a very long time since I read a book at one go.

I found it interesting to be reading about Falklands war as if it is happening today. It gives me a feeling that humans basically do not change after all the time.

This is a good read and if you want something light just go for it.

Epävarman mutta ainakin omasta mielestään intellektuellin nuorukaisen kasvukertomuksen parissa viihtyy erinomaisesti, mutta en osaisi kirjaa välttämättä vinkata nykyajan koululaisille: sen verran tiukasti ollaan kiinni brittiläisyydessä ja 1980-luvussa, että osa viittauksista menee todennäköisesti kokonaan ohi.

I'm not sure that I actually read this back in my early teens, but a couple of extra decades of life and a few years living in the UK gave it an extra dimension, a few layers of humour I certainly missed when I originally read these books years ago. Still, definitely holiday reading only.

I remember really liking the first Adrian Mole book when I was 12 or so. I'm not sure if this one isn't as good, or if I'm just older and less interested in adolescent angst. Adrian is pretentious, naive, and pathetic, but there was still a lot of funny stuff in there...