I’ve read all of the Adrian Mole books. I just love them. This one was no different. Adrian is still convinced of his own intellectual prowess, though socially clueless. I found a grown-up Adrian more sympathetic than a young one, even as he was buying thousands and thousands of dollars worth of merchandise on his credit cards.
I think my favorite part of the book was Adrian’s life in his apartment building. He was terrorized by swans, unable to play his music or television for fear of annoying his upstairs neighbor, and actually got sued by a friend who slipped on his staircase.
The one thing I found hard to take was Adrian’s complete inability to run his own life. He was just so passive about things, allowing others to tell him what to do, even write his break-up letters. I guess the book is a good example of what life is like when we don’t take control of the wheel.
