-The trouble with trying to read passages from the Adrian Mole Diaries aloud is that you find yourself laughing so hard you cant go on. Its that kind of book.- --Kansas City Star -As sad and devastating as it is laugh-out-loud funny. A delight - --New York Times The agonizingly funny, captivatingly poignant journals of Englands bespotted everyboy are now available again. An international phenomenon and perennial favorite since their initial publication made a splash in Thatchers Britain more than twenty years ago, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 3/4 is now side-by-side with its hilarious sequel The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole in this collected single volume.