Before I read this book, I knew 'Adrian Mole' is a girl who is really shy and reflective, because she wrote 'secret diary'. But, it was my misunderstanding. 'Adrian Mole' is a boy who aged 13 3/4. I was very surprised because of that.
Anyway, 'The Secret DIARY of ADRIAN MOLE aged 13 3/4' is like a real story of 13 3/4. We can know about British culture, especially about teenagers. Of course, every teenagers or most of teenagers don't like Adrian, but I believe this is not fault. During I read this book, I felt characters came out from the book and talk and act in front of me. They were very animated.
But, I was very tired during read this book. Because, this book was the first book I read in English. I couldn't read this book as fast as reading Korean books. I read is very slowly first, but later, I could read it faster than first. I was very proud of that. Later, I will try to read another book in English.
Anyway, from now, I will introduce about this book. This book is secret diary of boy whose name is 'Adrian Mole'. He is young, so he don't know a lot of things, but he thinks he is intelligent and he wants to treat like an adult. First of this book, Adrian is worry about is spots. It's every teenagers' problem. I agree with him. Next event was his mother's secret love with other man who lives next door name Mr. Lucas. Because of this, father became very languor. Finally, mother came back home anyway. And there are a senior citizen named Bert. At first, he is alcoholic, but finally he became a good friend of Adrian. Ah, there are love story of Adrian and Pandora. They are young, but.... umm. There are some embarrassed story on the book. It's a diary of teenager, so there are not something impress things. It was 'just' a diary!! So, I would tell about character in this book.
First, our hero, Adrian Mole. I think he is immature. He is just like stupid and silly. He loves himself very much. He think he is very good at writing but, I think that's not true. He is really self-intoxication. After he met Pandora, he is getting better, but I don't like him. Next, I want to talk about their parents. His mother had secret love with neighbor and divorced. And she don't care about Adrian very much. And his father, he don't have responsibility for their family. He don't have passion about all thing! He is not suitable for the head of a family. Anyway, they combined again. The next person is Bert. Adrian met him first at volunteer work. He was alcoholic, but after meet Adrian, he's getting better. He lived alone, but finally, he got married at 90 and went honeymoon with 80 years old, old woman. Last is Pandora, who is girl friend of Adrian. She changes her boy friend very often. I think she isn't serious about love. There are a lot of character in this book, but I can't arrange them all. When you aren't busy, try to read this book.
Back of this book, it said 'The funniest book of the year!', but I don't agree with them. Truly, I think it isn't funny very much. My friend, who lived in America said it's funny, but I can't feel it!!! I think our humor sense and their humor sense is different. Anyway, I can't believe this book was published in 1980s. It had polished style and sensual. It was good experience for me to read this book.
