Talk:Adrian Mole

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Why was there no spoiler warning for the character page? It reveals important details about the books!

When was Adrian Mole born? If we assume he is the same age in his first appearance as he would be in real life, then by substracting 13 from 1982 we get 1969. But is this true? — JIP | Talk 07:40, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

I would have thought that to be a reasonable assuption: If I recall correctly there is some discusion of the falklands war in the first ook, which should be sufficent to pin down the nominal "birthday".Iain 11:24, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

He was born in 1967; the Falklands War did not come up until near the end of the first book, a year after it began, meaning that he turned fourteen in 1981. There is some inconsistency in the story, if he was thirty-three in 2002, in the last book. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.110.232.53 (talk • contribs) 16:18, May 26, 2005.

Yes - the first date given in Secret Diary is Thursday January 1st. In 1981 New Year's Day was, indeed, a Thursday. So Adrian was born on April 2nd, 1967. Vashti 18:40, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

There's still just the inconsistency of in the last book Adrian being 33 years old in 2002, which would put his birthdate at April 2nd, 1969. By the way, I'm the same person as 24.110.232.53 back in May, I have a user account now. Yeltensic42.618 02:48, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Just finished reading ...Weapons Of Mass Destruction. Sob... pomegranate 18:08, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Children's books?

User:Deborah-jl recategorised this page from "Series of books" to "Series of children's books". I've reverted, as I don't think the Mole books are children's books; they're certainly aimed at an audience of all ages. Penguin Books seem to agree, as they print the books *as* Penguin and not under their Puffin imprint for children's books. Vashti 15:57, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

See your talk page. I agree about the series as a whole, but not about the first few books. As for children's lit, some books are marketed at both adults and children (such as The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime) and should be categorised as both. In any case, since the series per se is no longer children's literature, I agree with your reversion on the series page in particular, but I've added the Category:Children's books cat to the stub for the first book. 17:38, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1967 births categorisation

Is it really appropriate to have a fictional character in the year of birth categories?--HisSpaceResearch 01:43, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't think so. I've removed it. Vashti 03:21, 13 November 2006 (UTC)