Sue Townsend
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| Title | : | Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Adrian Mole #7) |
| Author | : | Sue Townsend |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 332 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 2006 by Soho Press (first published 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Young Adult. Comedy. Contemporary. European Literature. British Literature. Novels |
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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. 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. 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.Specify Books During Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Adrian Mole #7)
| Original Title: | Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction |
| ISBN: | 1569474389 (ISBN13: 9781569474389) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.suetownsend.co.uk/books/adrian-mole-and-the-weapons-of-mass-destruction |
| Series: | Adrian Mole #7 |
| Characters: | Adrian Mole |
Rating Containing Books Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Adrian Mole #7)
Ratings: 3.89 From 5641 Users | 250 ReviewsAppraise Containing Books Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Adrian Mole #7)
Quite simply the finest and funniest and most moving skewering of Blair's era and his grand folly.The shallowness of early 21st century Britain is exposed as even Mole, surely the most unfashionable man on Earth, gets caught up (living a lifestyle, not a life as one character puts it). His love life goes through one of its most tumultuous periods with one of his most appalling partners (which is saying something).Townsend's skills hit their height here, where she deftly brings the laughs andAdrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue TownsendEight out of 10Given the tremendous success of The Secret Diary Adrian Mole, Aged 13 - http://realini.blogspot.com/2019/12/t... - listed on The Guardians 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list, it is only natural to expect sequels, although as the case often is, what follows an acclaimed work does not rise to the level of the first installment for the sixth episode in the series, one critic is right in observing that the immature and
Oh Adrian what a disappointment you brought on me. And why? I loved Adrian Mole books as a teenager. I found him witty, a bit ridiculous, original, fresh - he was great. Then I had a long break. I didn't follow through after the first two books. I excitedly grabbed this one from my mom in law's bookcase... and the rest goes only downhill form there. No amount of nostalgia will make up for a fact that Adrian Mole is just... pitiful and pathetic. Humour is gone, wit is gone. There is still nice
I feel like I've grown up with Adrian Mole. I've been following his exploits since I was 13 years old, and as a character fixed in time, he's a year or two older than me.This book chronicles Adrian's life in 2003, age 34, with the backdrop of the war in Iraq. He worries about his 17-year-old son, who has joined the army and has been deployed to Kuwait, he struggles with a debt problem that's spiralling out of control, and still his love life is as disastrous as ever - he's trying to extricate
Adrian Mole can be a funny character at times.Earlier I had read The Cappuccino Years and found it fairly interesting.I expected this to be a political satire.But it's not really about Bush and Blair's invasion of Iraq on the pretext of Saddam stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.Adrian Mole writes to Blair to provide some evidence of the existence of the WMDs.He worries that his son could be deployed to Iraq.But mostly it is about Adrian Mole's life and other things.There is the odd funny
The seventh book in Sue Townsend's long-running Adrian Mole series, Weapons of Mass Destruction centers (not unexpectedly) upon the Blair years and Iraq War. Although I have enjoyed all of the Diaries of Adrian Mole, I did find this volume to be a bit of a slog. I stopped and started several times, and it has taken me the best part of the year to bother returning to it. Though I have listened to the earlier books many times and in many adaptations, I doubt that I will listen to this one again.
I am deducting one star because the general politics of the book is a strangely British combination of do-nothingism and liberal fetish. But I am still a bit awestruck that Townsend wrote a book of this size with a humour that never, ever got tedious, even with the politics, on a beach in eastern Europe with 30 lesser books cycling through my brain. It's possible I am the most demanding of all when it comes to humour, and I have such an absolutely begrudging, absolutely astonished admiration for
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