On a scale of 1-5 stars (with 5 being the best) how do you rate Cold Comfort Farm?
***** (Loved it)
0%
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****
0%
[ 0 ]
***
60%
[ 3 ]
**
0%
[ 0 ]
*
0%
[ 0 ]
Gave up on it
0%
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Didn't read this one
40%
[ 2 ]
Total Votes : 5
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lisa2062 Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 919 Birthday: 23rd December
Location: Dorset, UK
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:49 pm Post subject: October's Book - Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Discuss your thoughts on the book here as soon as you have finished reading it. Did you (not) enjoy it? Anything that struck you or maybe someone else can answer if you have a question? We're not really looking for in depth discussions...just tell us what you think of it!
For those who have finished it, please choose a star rating for the book based on how much you liked it. What did you think of it? Do you have any questions based on the book?
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Lisa x
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Joined: 27 Jun 2008 Posts: 510 Birthday: 23rd April
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:50 am Post subject:
Disaster !
I checked my bag this morning and found that my water bottle had leaked on my copy of CCF !
I'd read about 100 pages, Flora had just been to the meeting of the Quivering Bretheren
I gave my OH instructions on how to dry it out w/out it going all crinkly; hopefully it will recover & I can finish it off, or maybe track down another copy _________________ Current reading: The Last Temptation, Val McDermid ~ 40 @2009
Finished this tonight, I gave it 3 stars as I thought it was quite well written and enjoyable enough for me to finish but I wasn't overly excited about it, have a feeling I'll have forgotten all about it by the new year! _________________ Currently Reading: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Joined: 27 Jun 2008 Posts: 510 Birthday: 23rd April
Location: Manchester UK
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:57 am Post subject:
This was a strange one for me- I enjoyed it enough when I was reading it, but when I finished it I started to have doubts. It's supposed to be a parody, so maybe it's my own fault for not being familiar enough with the rural melodramas which it is sending up but,
Spoiler:
where she is grooming Elfine for marriage, and telling her to laugh when a book is mentioned and say that she's not very brainy- is this spoofing, or genuine advice ? In the end Flora herself rides off into the sunset with her own 'Prince Charming' - Charles - like a fairytale... her six months of independence and pleasing herself at the Starkadder's, being forgotten for presumably the much more serious business of marriage and children- every woman's role?
I have to disagree with the Julie Burchill quote on the front of my edition- probably the funniest book ever written. I preferred Lucky Jim for laugh-out-loud funny- CCF is not nasty enough about the Starkadders.
Also I skipped the Foreword, so I didn't know about the stars indicating passages of note until later- was this letter also part of the parody, or serious ?
I loved the language- clettering the dishes, and also the names of characters - Rennet ?!
Spoiler:
But what were the bits about the cow's legs etc falling off about?
_________________ Current reading: The Last Temptation, Val McDermid ~ 40 @2009
I am not entirely sure that I have 'got' this book either, for teh same reasons as mentioned above. I had huge expectations of it, and I nominated it to start with! , but it wasn't at all what I expected, maybe I just don't have the right sense of humour to appreciate it.
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