tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post9083058959803782784..comments2024-02-10T19:58:20.327+00:00Comments on Stuck in a Book: More Cold Comfort FarmStuckInABookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-78473049417410605952009-02-03T05:01:00.000+00:002009-02-03T05:01:00.000+00:00Late to the party, but I loved CCF too! I grew up ...Late to the party, but I loved CCF too! I grew up in an old house that had the sort of novels Gibbons was parodying so I knew them all in advance, and it was great to see F.P. blow through them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-3048637253363879052008-04-17T18:02:00.000+01:002008-04-17T18:02:00.000+01:00This post made me laugh, remembering Flora's talk ...This post made me laugh, remembering Flora's talk about birth control ("Tes flyin in the face of nature!" "Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy,") and on and on. One of the five, perhaps, funniest novels I've read. Thanks for this; I love it when book-lovers' tastes overlap!Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00251983804060081813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-50148193746454244152008-04-10T17:57:00.000+01:002008-04-10T17:57:00.000+01:00I would love to call my dogs after Adam's cows, bu...I would love to call my dogs after Adam's cows, but someone suggested that it was a bad idea to name pets in series: you risk ending up with Romeo and Squeak.Jodie Robsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02442935205880334932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-17552776120132265122008-04-10T12:55:00.000+01:002008-04-10T12:55:00.000+01:00Well, plenty of other books out there to read, Ang...Well, plenty of other books out there to read, Angela! That's the wonderful and strange thing about books - often a complete mystery why some people like a book and some people don't.StuckInABookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10017836017530130716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-20880493985941753552008-04-10T12:39:00.000+01:002008-04-10T12:39:00.000+01:00I'm delighted by your delight in Cold Comfort Farm...I'm delighted by your delight in <B>Cold Comfort Farm</B> ... and perhaps, one day, if I reread it, I should find myself delighted and collapsed with mirth at the hilarious romp I am reading. I do hope so.Angela Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708737998692926877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-48691238308975546442008-04-10T12:37:00.000+01:002008-04-10T12:37:00.000+01:00Watch out for Dark Cats on the prowl innocent coun...Watch out for Dark Cats on the prowl innocent country maidens ...<BR/><BR/>I think it is an extremely funny book that has borne re-reading more than once, and that is quite an achievement. Loved the lingerie collecting Mrs Smiling (I'm sure Karen wil understand this) and of course Flora.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-72523230626215361162008-04-10T10:16:00.000+01:002008-04-10T10:16:00.000+01:00I've just been cletterin' the dishes (though not w...I've just been cletterin' the dishes (though not with thorn twigs), and as I look out to the garden I'm sure I can see signs of the sukebind coming into flower....Cornflowerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17779286635989616330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-446727280609751914.post-79813935643551107642008-04-10T08:11:00.000+01:002008-04-10T08:11:00.000+01:00I'm so glad you love it. 'Liddle mop'; 'There'll b...I'm so glad you love it. 'Liddle mop'; 'There'll be no butter in hell.' Hee, just thinking about it makes me laugh. All that Sussex stuff is probably based on the novels of Sheila Kaye Smith. I read a couple of her books recently and saw the resemblance straight away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com