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| Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stella Gibbons
Creators: Roz Chast, Lynne Truss
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 33075
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0143039598
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780143039594
ASIN: 0143039598
Publication Date: March 28, 2006
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Product Description
A hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardys earthy, melodramatic novels, the deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is "very probably the funniest book ever written" (The Sunday Times).
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 1st time the movie was better December 22, 2008
I am first and foremost a book person. I rarely see a movie that was a book without having read the book. And 99% of the time I prefer the book. However this is one time when the movie tidied up a lot of the loose ends that were in a book. It is worth a read but this is not a classic I would rush to give a re-read ; I was expecting to be much more enthralled given the lauditory introduction. There are some exquisite moments and some fabulously understated humor but all too often I found myself wishing that sections had been omitted. I have also read a "re-telling" of the book but that was much worse.
 Fun December 12, 2008
I heard about this book on NPR and the book reviewer was asked what her favorite book was and she said Cold Comfort Farm and said it was hilarious. Well, she was right. It IS hilarious. Absurd and smart and funny.
Cold Comfort Farm warms you in all the right places July 14, 2008
It is incredible to think that this little book was written over 75 years ago, but stays as fresh and funny as the day it was first published.
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, is a darkly comic, tongue in cheek, parody written in 1932.
Upon the death of her parents, the newly impoverished Flora moves in with relatives, the Starkadders, who live in what we would now consider squalor, on Cold Comfort Farm. There she encounters all sorts of eccentrics and sets about turning their lives around.
It is a slim volume but extremely good; humorous and sends up all those earnest melodramas so popular at the time it was written. It is a very English book and initially may not appeal to all American readers, but is one of the few books that improves upon re-reading. If you don't get it the first time, leave it a few months and then read it again. It is absolutely worth it.
Not all the ends are tied up, and what the dotty aunt experienced in the woodshed is left to your own imagination.
Wonderful. April 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of the funniest books I've read. I'm ashamed I'd never heard of it until a friend turned me on to the film. It's one of those books I'll pick up again every couple of years, and it still makes me laugh.
The weird futuristic theme is a bit of a drawback - it's unnecessary, and a little confusing the first time you read the book. But it's easy to ignore. I'd like to know why the author decided to set it in the near-future - was it trendy at the time? Or a parody of something going on in the popular literature of that time, that I'm just not well read enough to quite understand?
 cold comfort farm January 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Lovely book. Funny and entertaining. Say the movie first so had some preconceived ideas about the characters but was able to enjoy the differences. Entertaining on a number of levels.
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