Warning: The following will contain spoilers for the majority of the Adrian Mole books.
I don’t think it’s any kind of exaggeration to say that the Adrian Mole books shaped my adolescence. I discovered them aged thirteen after being set an essay on a book featuring a love story and being explicitly told by my English teacher that anything Star Wars-related was out of bounds. So venturing to the local library, I was handed a copy of the series’ second book The Growing Pains Of Adrian Mole. I immediately fell in love with the series, raced through all the books that had been released at that time, and frequently reread the school library’s copies during my lunch breaks and free periods in the years that followed.
I identified strongly with a neurotic character like Adrian (especially since I was the same age as him when I...
I don’t think it’s any kind of exaggeration to say that the Adrian Mole books shaped my adolescence. I discovered them aged thirteen after being set an essay on a book featuring a love story and being explicitly told by my English teacher that anything Star Wars-related was out of bounds. So venturing to the local library, I was handed a copy of the series’ second book The Growing Pains Of Adrian Mole. I immediately fell in love with the series, raced through all the books that had been released at that time, and frequently reread the school library’s copies during my lunch breaks and free periods in the years that followed.
I identified strongly with a neurotic character like Adrian (especially since I was the same age as him when I...
- 1/9/2013
- by James T. Cornish
- Obsessed with Film
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