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  <title><![CDATA[The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4]]></title>
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  <default_description>Teen angst has never been such serious business--or this much fun! In his secret diary, British  teen Adrian Mole excruciatingly details every morsel of his turbulent adolescence. Mixed in with daily reports about the zit sprouting on his chin are heartrending passages about his parents' chaotic marriage. Adrian sees all, and he has something to say about everything. Delightfully self-centered, Adrian is the sort of teen who could rule a much better world--if only his crazy relatives and classmates would get out of his way. &lt;I&gt;The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole&lt;/I&gt; is a riot, and--although written more than 15 years ago--there is something deliciously timeless about Adrian's angst. </default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1982</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sue Townsend]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 03 08:34:06 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 03 08:41:40 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Young adult fiction set during the early Thatcher years. Like <em>Absolute Beginners</em> but with much worse music and fashion. Only the English could make a national literary treasure out of something so utterly pessimistic written for teenagers. The destruction of the British working and lower-middle clas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1626098">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 22 21:46:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Diary of Adrian Mole is like a snarky one-liner that continues for 135 pages. Adrian is a self-centered, irreverent British 14-year-old whose diary entries include nuggets of wisdom such as:<br/><br/><em>Pandora and I are in love! It is official! She told Claire Neilson, who told Nigel, who told m...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8762751">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat May 30 00:40:23 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 31 03:51:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now this story is probably one of the funniest I’ve read so far. Written by Sue Townsend it hits the country with its realism and the silliness of Adrian Mole himself.<br/>It starts with his New Year to-do list which is an absolute killer all by itself. And then the reader slowly reads through th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57831772">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47102070">
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 21 19:22:05 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 25 19:24:06 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Adrian Mole is just a normal boy, living in England. And suddenly his whole world is switched. His mom moves out, his dad is a drunk, he is lovesick for this girl Pandora. Adrian is 13 going on 14, he has pimples and his life is a whole whirl wind of chaos. Some conflicts of Adrian's life is that hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47102070">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35509459">
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  <date_added>Thu Oct 16 18:43:33 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 16 18:48:43 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Adrian Mole is a 13-year-old self-styled intellectual who is 'at the same time not very clever.' I love the way he pesters the BBC with unsolicited poetry, and treasures his rejection letters. He's definitely the young fogey in his family, often aligning himself with his grandmother against his adul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35509459">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50897678">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Sue Townsend Fans, Fans of British Humor]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Mar 30 06:00:44 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Please see my detailed review at Amazon <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R2BT4RI8124GZK/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm">Graceann's &quot;Secret Diary of Adrian Mole&quot; Review&quot;</a><br/><br/>Please click that the review was helpful to you at Amazon so that my rating continues to climb! <br/><br/>I have this with my epistolary novels, but really it's written in a diary for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50897678">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5282672">
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 29 06:49:31 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just love the Adrian Mole series. The adolescent angst is as thick as molasses in January and the humor is wonderful. This is another book I have read and reread and enjoyed each and every time. ]]></body>
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    <review id="64767324">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[First came across Adrian Mole in school. The trip to British Museum was printed in an English Book. A couple of years ago I got the book, and even bought the several sequels at Ebay (some of them aren't even published in German I think), but never came around to actually read it. So now I picked the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64767324">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49535060">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book quite a few years ago, but this one along with the rest in the Adrian Mole series still ranks in my top ten. A very funny narrative by a 13 something boy who lives in a dysfunctional family. The book starts with a christmas party where Adrian's dog gets drunk on sherry! I love his e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49535060">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71252454">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 14 21:27:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 14 21:57:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very funny take on the life of an almost-fourteen-year-old working class British school boy who suffers to varying degrees from his parents strained relationship, pimples, being an unrecognized intellectual, and his love for the perfect girl, Pandora. As much of the novel's considerable wit comes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71252454">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55789235">
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    <body><![CDATA[Adrian Mole certainly has real problems, but his hyper-ventilating, self-dramatizing, missing-the-point way of writing about them makes them very funny at the same time that they're sad.  His comments on life are frequently unintentionally ironic.  (When his mother says that for some women marriage ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55789235">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49257891">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 14 12:46:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[As the series begins, Adrian Mole is at a crossroads in his life.  He’s 13 3/4 and his teachers have yet to notice that he’s an intellectual; they don’t even ask to read the rejection letters he’s received from the BBC (no matter how flagrantly he displays them on his desk).  Barry Kent, the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49257891">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8330476">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 27 18:52:16 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 27 19:00:29 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in 8th grade, and I dint understand it at first. now two years later, I realize that it is a spectacular and hilarious book. It is often compared to Cather in the Rye, since the characters are teenage boys who learn many things to the point in which they learn the end of innocence. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8330476">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64655550">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read this one several times during the years and as I have read it again, I found it extremely entertaining and funny.<br/>Although, now that I have learned more english lingo, I found the translation to be a bit stiff, because the translator apparently was not too familiar with everyday spo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64655550">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46163919">
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title says it all. This book is exactly as promised: the diary of a 13-year-old boy. While it is very funny, the story is completely anticlimactic. The same set of events happen every two pages with a minor twist, and there is very little development between Adrian at 13 and Adrian at 15 (the en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46163919">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25300848">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people who like their comedy extra dry.]]></recommended_for>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was all right.  It follows about two years in the life of the title character as he experiences all that goes on around him, including his parents' tumultuous relationship, his care of a retired war veteran, and his father's employment struggles.  Additionally, Adrian deals with the school...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25300848">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book in 1986 and it's still one of the funniest books I have ever read...Townsend is brilliant. The pacing, comic timing and characters are superb. It was so funny I had to put the book down walk around the room laughing before composing myself to carry on reading.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A biting, hilarious perspective on the early Thatcher years, seen through the eyes of Adrian Mole, a quirky, provincial teen with wild aspirations. Brilliantly funny and refreshing, contrary to the rather abysmal time it takes place in. A great read. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Turbulent adolescent in the same house as mid-life and self absorbed parents(or you can read that as immature and selfish parents if you like). A recipe for the destruction of a family. I slogged through for about three months of the diary and didn't want to see any more.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my top favorites! I reread it every couple of years. It's out of print, but can be found. Someone borrowed my copy--never returned it. I loved it so much that I searched, bought a used copy on line. It's a treasure.]]></body>
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