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    <body><![CDATA[Stella Gibbons' affectionately comical nod to traditional Victorian novels had me laughing on the third page, when she explained a minor character's passion for her unparalleled, world-renowned collection of brassières.  The characters in this book are so vividly realized, and they are all the more...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5289728">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This may be one of the funniest books ever written and I pick it up whenever I feel inclined to have a whine and a moan. The protagonist, Flora Poste, is a bracing antidote for anyone inclined to be a sad sack. A student of the higher common sense, she understands that there are few troubles in life...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7963035">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My review here is primarily a compare/contrast between the movie and the book.<br/><br/>Having seen the movie several times in recent years it was hard to dissociate the film from the book. I wish I had read the book first for a more pure experience. This is one of those rare occasions when I thin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8835838">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the sort of book that I need to add to my collection and read again and again. Not only is it funny, but it's full of rich language, symbolism, and multiple meanings. It's the sort of book that always reveals something new with each reading.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If, like me, you've seen the 1996 movie adaptation of <em>Cold Comfort Farm</em>, with Kate Beckinsale, Ian McKellan, Joanna Lumley, Stephen Fry and Rufus Sewell (mmmm yum!), you'll know that there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm and that Aunt Ada Doom saw something &quot;narsty&quot; in th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24992549">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My love for the film version of this book is a bit ridiculous. I mean, I could watch it over and over and over and over again. It makes me smile just to think about it. Haven't we all seen something nasty in the woodshed?<br/><br/>The book is also highly pleasurable. Part of the pleasure for me, i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24937596">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Thu May 29 11:44:28 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this book is like watching a really great actor &quot;chew scenery.&quot;<br/>You know it's over the top (in this case intentionally so), but it's such great fun. The first two chapters are just a warm up. Once Flora gets to the farm, the tale really takes off.<br/>Amazing characters, fanc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21805060">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49981324">
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 21 14:09:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beware when the suke-bind is in bud! A fantastic, jocular flip-off to the natural, melancholy country novels of Thomas Hardy and D.H. Lawrence and other female writers that I haven't read yet.   And funny! This novel made me laugh in my chair. Audibly. I can't remember the last novel - Bridget Jones...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49981324">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this book! A mid 1930's rural British novel it is fabulous and under-appreciated. The story is bizarre, funny and engaging but her writing style impressed me the most. I couldn't help but read passages out loud because they were so great.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Few years a go I saw the latest movie based on this book and it was very funny. Therefore I was curious to read the book; also I have caught some whiffs of freshness and modernity from women writers of this era (thirties) and I'm still curious about that as well.<br/><br/> A young educated urbane ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42697599">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[How in the hell have I never read Cold Comfort Farm? It is one of the most singularly delicious and British novels I have encountered in quite some time. I remember Claudia in college droning on and on (usually having borrowed my “Jane Austen” dress to mope around in while she drank Earl Grey as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19492292">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cold Comfort Farm has been a fav. movie for a while, and after seeing Betsy's rave review I finally picked up the copy that had been languishing on my bookshelf for six months (o library booksales!) The verdict? This book is better than the movie, though you really need to see the old woman say &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2373224">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my best friends in high school was given an old copy of this book, from when it was first published in the '30s, by a smart, quirky elderly friend.  At the time nobody else seemed to be reading it, at least nobody else our age.  Both of us devoured it, loved it, and went around quoting it at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20493553">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure I've ever seen a movie that was so faithfully recreated from the book.  I have seen the movie many times and really liked it.  When I picked up the book, I was so hoping for the same satire and quirkiness.  I was not in the least disappointed and the book was larger followed to the lett...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47178451">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finally, I've convinced someone to read this book.  Although the person in question is my boyfriend, who is at a disadvantage to my other friends that don't have to live with me constantly cajoling them, I'm still naming it a victory.<br/><br/>Why?  Simple.  This book is the pinnacle of sheer farce ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38335792">more...</a>]]></body>
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