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| Original Title: | True Confessions of Adrian Mole |
| ISBN: | 0141010851 (ISBN13: 9780141010854) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.adrianmole.com/books/confessions.html |
| Series: | Adrian Mole #3 |
| Characters: | Adrian Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts |
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Adrian Mole has grown up. At least that’s what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit ‘Pinky’, working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the love of his life Pandora has proved to him that adulthood isn’t quite what he hoped it would be. Still, intellectual poets can’t always have things their own way … Included here are two other less well-known diarists: Sue Townsend and Margaret Hilda Roberts, a rather ambitious grocer’s daughter from Grantham.Details About Books True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend (Adrian Mole #3)
| Title | : | True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend (Adrian Mole #3) |
| Author | : | Sue Townsend |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 163 pages |
| Published | : | January 30th 2003 by Penguin (first published 1989) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Young Adult. Comedy |
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Ratings: 3.57 From 4759 Users | 182 ReviewsEvaluate About Books True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend (Adrian Mole #3)
A real disappointment compared to the first two books. "Adrian" only updates his diary occasionally. The entries are pretty random at times. I really lost interest halfway through but I somehow managed to get through the whole book. I wouldn't recommend it to Adrian-fans who want to read more after the first two books. Maybe the later Adrian books are better *fingers crossed*This book was a bit of an odd mish mash and a bit of a letdown.The Adrian Mole segments feel forced and unnatural compared to the previous actual diaries. There are a couple of funny moments, but generally it felt weak. I missed having constant daily updates, and the actual events felt a bit bizarre. And then other points felt like it was being written specifically for an unfamiliar audience, so there would be unnecessary descriptions and comments about his parents, for example. The Susan Lilian
Disappointing to say the least number 4 better be worth my time! Why did Sue Townsend think we would care about some random girl for a few pages and then to throw in a few things about herself or was it just some made up story! Very Weird!
This addition to the Adrian Mole canon is entirely different from the first two books. This is not a diary, but as Sue Townsend writes in her Authors Preface This book is a collection of some of the articles and essays I have written over the years.There are three parts A variety of material supposedly by Adrian Mole; four essays by Townsend, and then a fictional diary, The Secret Diary of Margaret Hilda Roberts Aged 141/2 and Correspondence with a Queen in Waiting also by Roberts.Most of the
Adrian's diary notes are as funny as ever, but his essays are boring, as are Sue's. They're like compositions. Only the last piece, "Why I Like England", is good, but just 2 pages long.At first I thought that "The Secret Diary of Margaret Hilda Roberts aged 14" was going to be a lame rehash of Adrian's diary, but two pages in I realized that this girl of whom "nothing is known or what became of her" was supposed to be (view spoiler)[the young Thatcher (hide spoiler)]. That was quite funny.I
This was ok - standard Adrian Mole fare - amusing in parts. Once the "diaries" moved away from Adrian Mole, the whole book took a turn for the worst.
*sigh*After waiting patiently for this next installment of everyone's favorite angsty, self-inflated British teen to arrive from InterLibrary Loan, I was given roughly 80 pages of Adrian - not all of it new to faithful readers. *double sigh* Seriously, Sue Townsend?! I waited for THIS?Yes, some of it was delightful - but too brief and not at all fulfilling. The rest of the novel is devoted to an essay by the author *yawn - quite literally - YAWN* and then the diary of a teenaged Margaret
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