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Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

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holymary · 25/02/2011 16:07

Our book group are reading this at the moment...and I think it is dreadful! I really hate it....dislike Flora and her patronising righteousness and the 'stereotypical yokel' portrayal of the cousins. Yet, so many people have recommended it on MN and it has pretty good reviews on Amazon.

Would love to know what other people think!

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sethstarkaddersmackerel · 25/02/2011 20:29

now you're talking Holymary

sethstarkaddersmackerel · 25/02/2011 20:28

Animadura - I love the porridge. It is a character in its own right.

NotjustaMummy · 25/02/2011 20:28

Fave books, not face books. Damn you autocorrect!

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holymary · 25/02/2011 20:28

This is like a CLUB! It reminds me of the Rocky Horror Picture show where everyone dresses up and acts out the scripts.

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NotjustaMummy · 25/02/2011 20:27

Got to be one of my face books of all time! Didn't know there was an adaptation, will have to amazon it now!
Grin

earwicga · 25/02/2011 20:26

I also hate Jane Austen so the two may be related.

animadura · 25/02/2011 20:20

...'The porridge gave an ominous, leering heave'

candleshoe · 25/02/2011 20:16

www.allmusicimport.com/025192264924.html?campaign=GoogleBaseUK

Highly recommended - if you don't like it I'll buy the DVD off you!

FellatioNelson · 25/02/2011 20:15

I adore this book with a passion. It makes me hoot.

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holymary · 25/02/2011 20:07

So it really is a hit with nearly you all! Ok _ I will track down the film and see if I like it any better!!

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candleshoe · 25/02/2011 20:00

You've missed the point of the book OP.
The film's excellent if you want to try and find it - superb in fact - its got Rufus Sewell and Joanna Lumley in it and loads of others.

mamaGool · 25/02/2011 19:59

Oooh, I love it (sorry OP), but I first heard it on audiobook with all the yokel local accents, which just really made it laugh-out-loud funny. Not sure I'd have "got" the comic genius from just reading the book...

SugarPasteFrog · 25/02/2011 19:57

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earwicga · 25/02/2011 19:51

I hated it too. I think we are the only two people to ever admit this OP.

AlmaMartyr · 25/02/2011 19:49

SSM - I've never seen a JudithStarkadder post, wonder if she's still around.

I'll have to get Nightingale Wood from the library, never read anything else of hers.

pirateparty · 25/02/2011 18:47

Ohh thanks sharbie

sharbie · 25/02/2011 18:28

of course he will Grin

sethstarkaddersmackerel · 25/02/2011 18:26

he'll shag you beneath the sukebind Grin

sharbie · 25/02/2011 18:19

its on you tube pirate Grin it was fab.op the book is a comedy.i want to go on a date with seth.cinema perhaps??

elkiedee · 25/02/2011 18:15

I enjoyed Cold Comfort Farm. Stella Gibbons wrote lots of books but hardly any of the others have been kept in print. don't bother with the sequel Conference at CCF if you come across it though - my library had a copy and it's very disappointing. I do recommend Nightingale Wood, reprinted in Virago Modern Classics a couple of years ago. I understand Vintage is reprinting some more of her work in the next year or so.

hocuspontas · 25/02/2011 18:14

I love it. I'm so annoyed it's £6.99 to download. I was looking forward to it being my first book on my kindle.

pirateparty · 25/02/2011 18:13

Thanks - will def search it out then, and a spare Sunday afternoon - will make dh take ds out for a run about and plead pregnancy exhaustion!

sethstarkaddersmackerel · 25/02/2011 18:01

Thank you AlmaMartyr Smile. JudithStarkadder had already been taken but then I thought, well, she would have referred to herself on here as SethsMum wouldn't she?!

AlmaMartyr · 25/02/2011 17:59

I love Cold Comfort Farm, one of my favourite books. I've heard that it was partly written as a parody of the books of Eden Philpotts, who was very popular at the time and very fond of those stereotypes (not read any of his stuff though so can't comment). I love the 90s adaptation too, although agree it's not perfect. Rufus Sewell as Seth is spot on IMO - actually I keep meaning to tell Sethstarkaddersmum how much I love her name but haven't got round to it before!

weblette · 25/02/2011 17:41

Adore adore this book