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    <body><![CDATA[A friend from whom I was asking some advice said, seeing as I keep a diary and am incredibly self-examinatory, I should read the Adrian Mole books.  I never read them as a child, but I thought I'd give them a go, however the only one at Newtown Library was this, the most recent one.  Seeing as in it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40781374">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Saya adalah pembaca setia seri Adrian Mole karangan Sue Townsend. Seri ini terkenal akan selera humornya yang konyol, sedikit bodoh, dan absurd.<br/><br/>Kali ini si tokoh utama Adrian Mole sudah menjadi seorang ayah dari dua orang anak (seri Mole mengikuti perkembangan dirinya dari kecil hingga d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29291748">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm really happy to have discovered Sue Townsend.  (Thanks Haven!)  Adrian Mole is a sort of literary misfit, but you just can't help loving him and all his crazy faults.  I'd recommend this book to everyone.  It is a great read and I had a lot of fun laughing while reading it.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. Adrian's hapless, misguided existence, and his angst perspective on life is always hilarious.<br/><br/>I also found this book provided a gentle reminder of the build up to the 2nd Iraq war. The letters from his son, who's sent to Iraq, were touching and honest.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Adrian Mole books have always been a &quot;comfort read&quot; for me and this one was no exception. Funny and sad at the same time with a satisfying ending. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ahh, I love Adrian Mole. This character will be known as one of the best comic creations a Briton has conceived.<br/><br/>The satire that Townsend uses is mind-blowing. Her timing is always precise and never delays a heartbeat. <br/><br/>However, understandably, people may have differing opinion...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31543948">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Townsend's wickedly funny novels are another reason to be grateful for the right of free speech.&quot;-<em>San Francisco Chronicle</em><br/><br/>&quot;Townsend is [a] comic genius.&quot;-<em>The Village Voice</em> (a Top Shelf selection) <br/><br/>&quot;The latest careening satire to emerge from Sue Townsend's wickedly literary rocket launcher, combining love, politics and credit-card debacle into a not-to-be-missed novel.&quot;-<em>The Seattle Times</em><br/><br/>&quot;Complex, funny and wrenching.&quot;-<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br/><br/>Adrian Mole, now age thirty-four and three quarters, needs proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction so he can get a refund from a travel agency of the deposit he paid on a trip to Cyprus. Naturally, he writes to Tony Blair for some evidence. <br/><br/>He's engaged to Marigold, but obsessed with her voluptuous sister. And he is so deeply in debt to banks and credit card companies that it would take more than twice his monthly salary to ever repay them. He needs a guest speaker for his creative writing group's dinner in Leicestershire and wonders if the prime minister's wife is available. <br/><br/>In short, Adrian is back in true form, unable-like so many people we know, but of course, not us-to admit that the world does not revolve around him. But recognizing the universal core of Adrian's dilemmas is what makes them so agonizingly funny. <br/> ]]>
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Townsend's wickedly funny novels are another reason to be grateful for the right of free speech.&quot;-<em>San Francisco Chronicle</em><br/><br/>&quot;Townsend is [a] comic genius.&quot;-<em>The Village Voice</em> (a Top Shelf selection) <br/><br/>&quot;The latest careening satire to emerge from Sue Townsend's wickedly literary rocket launcher, combining love, politics and credit-card debacle into a not-to-be-missed novel.&quot;-<em>The Seattle Times</em><br/><br/>&quot;Complex, funny and wrenching.&quot;-<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br/><br/>Adrian Mole, now age thirty-four and three quarters, needs proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction so he can get a refund from a travel agency of the deposit he paid on a trip to Cyprus. Naturally, he writes to Tony Blair for some evidence. <br/><br/>He's engaged to Marigold, but obsessed with her voluptuous sister. And he is so deeply in debt to banks and credit card companies that it would take more than twice his monthly salary to ever repay them. He needs a guest speaker for his creative writing group's dinner in Leicestershire and wonders if the prime minister's wife is available. <br/><br/>In short, Adrian is back in true form, unable-like so many people we know, but of course, not us-to admit that the world does not revolve around him. But recognizing the universal core of Adrian's dilemmas is what makes them so agonizingly funny. <br/> ]]>
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Townsend's wickedly funny novels are another reason to be grateful for the right of free speech.&quot;-<em>San Francisco Chronicle</em><br/><br/>&quot;Townsend is [a] comic genius.&quot;-<em>The Village Voice</em> (a Top Shelf selection) <br/><br/>&quot;The latest careening satire to emerge from Sue Townsend's wickedly literary rocket launcher, combining love, politics and credit-card debacle into a not-to-be-missed novel.&quot;-<em>The Seattle Times</em><br/><br/>&quot;Complex, funny and wrenching.&quot;-<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br/><br/>Adrian Mole, now age thirty-four and three quarters, needs proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction so he can get a refund from a travel agency of the deposit he paid on a trip to Cyprus. Naturally, he writes to Tony Blair for some evidence. <br/><br/>He's engaged to Marigold, but obsessed with her voluptuous sister. And he is so deeply in debt to banks and credit card companies that it would take more than twice his monthly salary to ever repay them. He needs a guest speaker for his creative writing group's dinner in Leicestershire and wonders if the prime minister's wife is available. <br/><br/>In short, Adrian is back in true form, unable-like so many people we know, but of course, not us-to admit that the world does not revolve around him. But recognizing the universal core of Adrian's dilemmas is what makes them so agonizingly funny. <br/> ]]>
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Townsend's wickedly funny novels are another reason to be grateful for the right of free speech.&quot;-<em>San Francisco Chronicle</em><br/><br/>&quot;Townsend is [a] comic genius.&quot;-<em>The Village Voice</em> (a Top Shelf selection) <br/><br/>&quot;The latest careening satire to emerge from Sue Townsend's wickedly literary rocket launcher, combining love, politics and credit-card debacle into a not-to-be-missed novel.&quot;-<em>The Seattle Times</em><br/><br/>&quot;Complex, funny and wrenching.&quot;-<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br/><br/>Adrian Mole, now age thirty-four and three quarters, needs proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction so he can get a refund from a travel agency of the deposit he paid on a trip to Cyprus. Naturally, he writes to Tony Blair for some evidence. <br/><br/>He's engaged to Marigold, but obsessed with her voluptuous sister. And he is so deeply in debt to banks and credit card companies that it would take more than twice his monthly salary to ever repay them. He needs a guest speaker for his creative writing group's dinner in Leicestershire and wonders if the prime minister's wife is available. <br/><br/>In short, Adrian is back in true form, unable-like so many people we know, but of course, not us-to admit that the world does not revolve around him. But recognizing the universal core of Adrian's dilemmas is what makes them so agonizingly funny. <br/> ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sooooooooooo funny!<br/><br/>&quot;Saturday October 19th - At lunchtime today I walked to Country Organics to give Marigold a copy of What Not to Wear by Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine. I haven't mentioned it before, diary, but Marigold has very little dress sense. Somehow she has not rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10331870">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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