Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
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From Publishers Weekly
This fifth installment of Adrian Mole's diary (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4; Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, etc.) breaks new ground with its concern for current affairs and its sympathetic treatment of not-always-exemplary characters. Adrian, as usual, is struggling with various relationships and with constant financial problems, always trying to do the right thing, but usually giving in to his baser urges, in love and in spending. He becomes accidentally engaged to dollhouse-building homebody Marigold while spending flirtatious evenings with childhood love Pandora; fires off missives to the likes of Tony Blair and Tim Henman; and works, genuinely, to be a good father, friend and ex-husband to a cast of often bizarre but always human characters. Townsend, author of numerous non-Adrian novels, plays and nonfiction, makes Adrian's adult disorientation palpable as he tries to figure out how he went from hosting a popular television show to working in a failing second-hand bookshop, and copes with the shock of seeing childhood bullies make good and childhood dreams go awry. Arguments about the war figure prominently: one of Adrian's sons is sent to Iraq; his best friend, Robert, is there, too. Adrian's reactions to the war are complex, funny and wrenching. By the time the diary breaks off (on Sunday, July 22, 2004), things are looking up for Adrian and a bridesmaid—and he is considering (to her consternation) writing an autobiography. (Dec.)
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Book Description
Praise for Sue Townsend:
"It's a good thing British subjects are no longer beheaded for treason, or Sue Townsend's head would roll for her outrageously cutting depictions of the powers that be."-Newsday
"[Townsend] is a national treasure."-The New York Times Book Review
"Breezy, hilarious."-New York Magazine
"A sharp, entertaining social critique."-The Plain Dealer
"Townsend has a rare gift . . . wickedly funny."-Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"Both funny and impudent."-TIME
"Engaging."-The Washington Post Book World
"Hilarious."-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Irresistible, irreverent, revealing, and impossible to put down."-The Boston Globe
"Brilliant, funny."-The Seattle Times
Adrian Mole, now age 34 and three-quarters, needs proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction so he can get a refund from the travel agency of the deposit he paid on a trip to Cyprus. Naturally, he writes to Tony Blair for some evidence.
He's engaged to Marigold but obsessed with her voluptuous sister, yet he doesn't want anyone to think ill of him. 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.
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 in Adrian's dilemmas is what makes them so agonizingly funny.
This fifth installment of Adrian Mole's diary (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4; Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, etc.) breaks new ground with its concern for current affairs and its sympathetic treatment of not-always-exemplary characters. Adrian, as usual, is struggling with various relationships and with constant financial problems, always trying to do the right thing, but usually giving in to his baser urges, in love and in spending. He becomes accidentally engaged to dollhouse-building homebody Marigold while spending flirtatious evenings with childhood love Pandora; fires off missives to the likes of Tony Blair and Tim Henman; and works, genuinely, to be a good father, friend and ex-husband to a cast of often bizarre but always human characters. Townsend, author of numerous non-Adrian novels, plays and nonfiction, makes Adrian's adult disorientation palpable as he tries to figure out how he went from hosting a popular television show to working in a failing second-hand bookshop, and copes with the shock of seeing childhood bullies make good and childhood dreams go awry. Arguments about the war figure prominently: one of Adrian's sons is sent to Iraq; his best friend, Robert, is there, too. Adrian's reactions to the war are complex, funny and wrenching. By the time the diary breaks off (on Sunday, July 22, 2004), things are looking up for Adrian and a bridesmaid—and he is considering (to her consternation) writing an autobiography. (Dec.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Book Description
Praise for Sue Townsend:
"It's a good thing British subjects are no longer beheaded for treason, or Sue Townsend's head would roll for her outrageously cutting depictions of the powers that be."-Newsday
"[Townsend] is a national treasure."-The New York Times Book Review
"Breezy, hilarious."-New York Magazine
"A sharp, entertaining social critique."-The Plain Dealer
"Townsend has a rare gift . . . wickedly funny."-Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"Both funny and impudent."-TIME
"Engaging."-The Washington Post Book World
"Hilarious."-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Irresistible, irreverent, revealing, and impossible to put down."-The Boston Globe
"Brilliant, funny."-The Seattle Times
Adrian Mole, now age 34 and three-quarters, needs proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction so he can get a refund from the travel agency of the deposit he paid on a trip to Cyprus. Naturally, he writes to Tony Blair for some evidence.
He's engaged to Marigold but obsessed with her voluptuous sister, yet he doesn't want anyone to think ill of him. 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.
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 in Adrian's dilemmas is what makes them so agonizingly funny.
I have to admit, that I didn't find the story funny. (I haven't read the prvious books about Adrian Mole, maybe that's why.)
He is 35, has no idea about his live and struggles extremely with his relationships. He is not able to make clear desicions und stand up to his opinions. For me just a poor character.
He is 35, has no idea about his live and struggles extremely with his relationships. He is not able to make clear desicions und stand up to his opinions. For me just a poor character.
Journal Entry 3 by RikkiDD at Spielebar Barneby in Dresden, Sachsen Germany on Saturday, October 4, 2014
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