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The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole

By: Sue Townsend
Narrated by: James Carcaterra, Anna Bentinck, Harriet Carmichael, Various
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Adrian Mole is an adult. 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 expected. Still, without the dilemmas of modern life what would an intellectual poet have to write about…

©1989 Sue Townsend (P)2013 W F Howes Ltd Coming of Age Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Fiction Funny

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bad boring narrator couldnt finish it. got to chapter 4. looking to send it back after this review.

awful

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I thought when I heard these reviews it was going to be so bad but not everything is that bad so I used one of my credits and omg it was bad a complete waste and a different reader I’m just disappointed 😔 but it wasn’t really really really really bad it was just bad

Not the best

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The main issue concerning this hybrid collection of Adrian Mole, Sue Townsend and Margaret Hilda Roberts diaries is that it's a bit of an odd combo. I personally loved the Mole chapters, although the timeline jumped around a little. Townsend's own diaries were excellent and laugh out loud funny in places. As for the 'Young Mrs Thatcher' chapters, well, a clever satires, but about as subtle as a sledgehammer. I would have liked to see more Mole and less 1980s political comment if I'm honest.

I would have preferred to have heard Nicholas Barnes as Mole; Anna Bentinck and Harriet Carmichael were both fabulous narrators though.

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I've read this book a few times. Being unwell I'm listening to it. The narrator just isn't Adrian Mole. Another narrator without a Leicestershire accent
This sucks

The narrator sounds so bored.

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The first part was good. Typical Adrian Mole. The rest was some frightfully dull dirge of story about some wretched holiday the author went on. I had to stop it. I didn’t buy this for a self indulgent recounting of Townsend’s holiday. I purchased this to hear of the tales of Adrian Mole. Codswallop!

What a load rubbish.

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