Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years |
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Author:
Sue Townsend
By Penguin Audiobooks
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List Price: £9.99
Our Price: £32.99
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 9780141801889
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
ISBN: 0141801883
Label: Penguin Audiobooks
Manufacturer: Penguin Audiobooks
Number Of Items: 3
Number Of Pages: 3
Publication Date: 2000-10-19
Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks
Studio: Penguin Audiobooks |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Adrian Mole is balding, he's bitter and he's back, this time aged 30¼. Working at the Hoi Polloy restaurant, Soho, where a typical menu includes: Heinz Tomato Soup,
(with white bread floaters) Grey Lamb Chops
Boiled Cabbage avec Dan Quayle Potatoes
Dark Brown onion gravy Spotted Dick à la Clinton
Bird's Eye Custard Cheddar Cheese, Cream Crackers
Nescafé
After Eight Mint he is spotted by a cable TV producer and ends up starring in a celebrity chef show celebrating offal. Though he may be older he is certainly no wiser, still passing his time by dreaming of Pandora (now a shining star in Tony Blair's New Government) after his marriage to a Nigerian beauty ends in tatters. But underneath the layers of experience and sophistication, fans of the Mole family will find the same dysfunctional mess that made Adrian's Secret Diary an instant bestseller--his young son is being brought up by his mother in Ashby-de-la- Zouch, his 16-year-old sister leaves home to live with her multiply pierced boyfriend and his father is bed- bound with manic depression. Adrian still makes constant lists of juvenile neuroses and concentrates on his penis activity to an unhealthy extent (it is when it reaches 0/10 he realises something has to be done). Townsend's trademark acerbic wit is still much in evidence; Zippo kissed my mother's hand and complimented her on the shirt she was wearing. 'Is it Vivienne Westwood?' he murmered.
'No', she muttered back. 'It's BhS'.
'You clever thing', he crooned. it is only the frames of reference that have changed. Occasionally verging on the corny ("I arrived at the Brent Cross shopping centre car-park, to find that my car had been towed away five days ago and was in a police compound somewhere in Purley. A £25 cab ride took me to the Purley gates …") true Mole fanatics will forgive Townsend her occasional excesses for the numerous laugh-out-loud moments that punctuate Adrian's existence as he blunders on towards middle age. Accessible, amusing and appealing, The Cappuccino Years see an Adrian who has survived the Growing Pains; thought better of True Confessions; is out of the Wilderness Years and is facing the only really important question that remains: Is Viagra cheating? --Lucie Naylor
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Nah... less funny, 2008-09-30
I guess it's ok, but I only laughed out loud max two times - and this is supposed to be the longest book yet. Not nearly as funny as The Wilderness Years and The Small Amphibians.
Begining of a New Mole Era, 2006-01-18
Another excellent Mole book and a worthy addition to the canon of British satire. Mole remains a character who is easily identifiable with, even if he inhabits a pastiche of contemporary Britain which is often gruesome, but always amusing. A major difference to earlier works is that the poignancy which always ran through his journals is much more of an integral part of the narratives. And, although this book seems to have dated surprisingly quickly (especially when compared to the Adrian's earlier efforts) it is still exceptionally funny.Highly Recommended.
Adrian Mole - Modern History, 2004-02-11
I would agree that, at first, the style of this book deviates from Adrian's first diaries in that the entries are really long-winded (and less funny), but perhaps that's deliberate (and that Townsend is showing Adrian trying to be more of a "writer", which he is renownedly crap at). It also coincides with a time in Adrian's life when he seems to have more time to write lengthy nonsense. Later in the diary, when he's more busy with "real life" tasks, his entries become shorter and more personally reflective (and therefore, more funny). What I think is brilliant about these books is remembering the era I grew up in. Adrian, as always, chronicles current events in his diary: such as Princess Diana's death and the new Blair government coming to power, and makes statements about these events, thus recording history in a way that portrays, more than most, how the "ordinary person" viewed those times. It then becomes more like a discourse of modern history - which I think is great. It's like having a (modern) 'memories museum' in book format. Fantastic! The Sunday Telegraph says it best - Townsend 'has held a mirror up to the nation and made us happy to laugh at what we see in it'.
The Cappuccino Years, 2005-02-06
This is a very good book. If you have red the past Adrian Mole books you have to read this it is about adrian mole aged 30 1/4. Can he be a good father? Why whont the bbc produce 'The White Van', his serial killer comedy. this is a must reed it is funny and hilerias
This is a great book., 2005-12-28
If you are a fan of the Adrian Mole books you have to read this it is about adrian mole aged 30. A great book and well worth the reed, Also a very funny book :)
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