Cold Comfort Farm (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Stella Gibbons Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Cold Comfort Farm (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Book Review: Well, I tried...
Summary: 1 Stars
I was urged to read this novel. "Hilarious! Hysterical! Will make you laugh aloud!" One friend said she read it while undergoing chemotherapy and laughing out loud, and had the nurses laughing, too. Another friend has this as one of her perennial favorites. I respect both friends, so I gave this a try. I really did. Twice. The second time, I stopped trying to plow through and just skilled around. I admit I did laugh aloud, but only when I was struck by the reflection that these two friends thought it funny. My advice: forget it. If you want to laugh aloud, pick up THREE MEN IN A BOAT (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome, and pass on this one.Book Review: What did Aunt Ada Doom see in the wood shed?
Summary: 4 Stars
If she saw what we all suspect then she has been a crafty old lady playing on the sympathies of all her relatives for 70 odd years. These days she would be in psychotherapy and living on her own; however clever old Ada not only has all her meals in bed but has refused for any of her family to leave the farm even though most of them have married! This abundance of family labour (poorly paid) has made Cold Comfort Farm a profitable venture. When Flora Poste eccentrically decides to place herself with these estranged relatives she sets about "tidying things up" (obviously a compulsive obsessive)! She liberates "Big Business" the prize bull from his dank barn, as well as Elphine the sprite-like granddaughter, as for Seth and the Sukebind the less said the better. A wonderful tour de force of country characters juxtaposed against city sensibilities.Book Review: What's a sensible girl to 5 Stars
Every time I pick this book up I know I will be smilling in minutes. Not only is it funny but the book is also very clever in its takeoff of mouldy Brittish storeylines.Everything about COLD COMFORT FARM is delicious - Aunt Ada Doom who saw 'something nasty in the woodshed', the sukebind in bud, tidy Flora who is determined to tidy untidy cold comfort farm.
I don't think there is a whole lot going on below the surface of this book - I care about Flora but the other characters are mostly there for the satire they bring to the situations they are in.
This is a book meant to be read lightly for pure unadulted entertainment.
A must read - if you "get it" you'll read it over and over.
Book Review: Wuthering Heights meets Oscar Wilde
Summary: 5 Stars
Wonderfully witty. Imagine if Wuthering Heights were written by Oscar Wilde, and you have Cold Comfort Farm.Book Review: cold comfort farm
Summary: 5 Stars
It is the long story of well educated Flora Poste. Her parents died of a sudden illness when she is only 20.She decided to go to live with relatives on cold comfort farm in sussex(The Starkadders-her cousins at cold comfort farm).They are deeply unhappy and miserable all of the time. They are moody , quarrelsome, confused and nobody ever laughs them. They are strange in different ways : Aunt Ada Doom who saw something in the woodshed when she was two and people believe that she is mad, Judith alone with her sadness about Seth, Amos called by God to preach about flame of hellfire and damnation, Seth crazy with sex and mollocking with many women, Elfine who runs wild in the woods and compose the poet everyday, and other crazy characters. Even worse, Mr.Bug, a writer is falling in love with her and always follow her everywhere. Flora is determined that it is her duty to bring order in to this cold comfort farm and tidy the lives of these uncivilised relatives as she is an excessively tidy person likes a mess and she change cold comfort farm successfully
This book is the funnest and the most entertaining book I have ever read. I learned many new strange words and phrases in reading it. I have never read any book else that more perfectly than this book. It's worth reading to spend some hours with. Flora was much more successful at making things come to what she want and end with unbelievably happily. The only mistake is in the ending, the story is unclear in many points such as what Flora's rights are, what Aunt Ada saw in the woodshed and what happened with Flora's dad.