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I have vivid memories of reading this on a family trip to Ireland when it came out, I must have been around eleven or so. Rereading it forty years later, I'm somewhat amazed at how much of the story I remembered. Firmly situated as it is in the middle of England (Leicester, to be precise) in 1980-81, it's hard to imagine how the book would land with a kid reading it today. The diary format is a good one for the comedic tone, as it allows Townsend to get in and out of jokes quickly, with the occa
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My highschool bff and I read this book out loud to each other. I think I have read it once a year ever since. It is the opposite of Catcher in the Rye.
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