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Not so comforting Oct 29, 2009
for Graceless, whose missing leg never seem shows up.
Have sometimes wondered if this would be less of a cult classic & more mainstream is it had been written by a bloke (an Amis or Waugh perhaps - although the style & plot would be vastly different) - women just aren't allowed to be funny y'know.
joining the ranks of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh Jul 22, 2009
Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Completely hilarious and shamefullly forgotten. Nancy Mitford meets Jane Austen.
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Extremely funny Jun 23, 2009
Cold Comfort Farm is a really comforting novel that kept me laughing from start to finish. The names of most of the characters are hilarious and their problems equally so.
"spoiler alert" Aunt Ada Doom saw something nasty in the woodshed and uses this as an excuse to control the rest of her family. Flora Poste, her niece descends upon the gloomy farm they inhabit and sets about to liberate her cousins from the iron grip of Ada Doom. There's depressed Judith Starkadder, her self-righteous husband Amos, their sons- lustful Seth and anxious Ruben, wild Elfine, senile Adam, perverted Urk, unmarried Rennet and a host of other interesting characters.
Read it and enjoy not just the humour, but the satire and the psychological exploration of human longing that makes this novel unputdownable. I enjoyed it more than the film.
 Entertaining little book May 04, 2009
Written as a parody of the sensationalized novels of the 1930s, Cold Comfort Farm is a short, funny, entertaining story. It all starts when orphaned Flora decides she would rather live off her relatives than find a job. After dashing off letters to her unsuspecting relations, she picks the Starkadder family of Cold Comfort Farm to move in with. The Starkadders are a bit of a backwards bunch: an oversexed brother, wild sister, and Bible thumping father, among others. They are all overseen by Flora's Great Aunt Ada Doom, who saw "something nasty in the woodshed" years before. Hilarity ensues as Flora attempts to clean up, domesticate, and civilize the Starkadder clan.
Fun on the Farm Apr 20, 2009
I thoroughly enjoyed this tongue in cheek novel. Very British humor. Very fun!
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