false 51072 14 "Townsend's wickedly funny novels are another reason to be grateful for the right of free speech."-<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br><br>"Townsend is [a] comic genius."-<i>The Village Voice</i> (a Top Shelf selection) <br><br>"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."-<i>The Seattle Times</i><br><br>"Complex, funny and wrenching."-<i>Publishers Weekly</i><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> 806415 2004 Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction total:458|5:110|4:182|3:123|2:35|1:8| 458 1725 615 47 2 0 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 07:24:17 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 05:02:05 -0700 2009
But I don't find this instalment of Adrian Mole's diary anything near hilarious. Not even of the snigger-to-yourself variety. This Adrian Mole is just sad.

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The satire that Townsend uses is mind-blowing. Her timing is always precise and never delays a heartbeat.

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"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...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 09:14:25 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 21:03:46 -0700 2009
5/20/09 Disappointing. The humor was missing. A real let down. ]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 05 04:49:25 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 05 05:12:38 -0800 2007 more...]]>