Cold Comfort Farm in Around the Year in 52 Books

Apr 07, 2014 Nancy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, humour, still-owned

When you first meet Flora Poste, you wonder whether she is going to be a bit of a busybody. After her parents die, she decides the best way to live is to move in with relatives - any relatives, she isn't bothered. When her distant relatives from Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex offer to take her in, she takes herself down there not just to live, but to tidy them all up. And actually, as the book goes on, you realise that Flora is truly delightful. Yes, she wants to fix everyone, but everything is don ...more

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Dec 08, 2014 Kaye rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1kindle, 0fiction, authorfrom-britain

I sort of enjoyed the book; it's a bit of absurd fun. But I gather now from Amazon reviews that this is an abridged edition, so I'm not sure I can say that I've really read it. (There's no indication of this at Amazon or in the book itself.) Plus the Kindle rendering was incredibly poor. (E.g. "littered" appears as as "Uttered".) The reading experience was really poor. ...more

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Dec 28, 2014 Trish rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: how-many-100-list, dt-500-must-reads, general-fiction, dt-100-books, classics-c20, zsrc-2014-4-winter, book-club-bible

Glad I persevered with this. It took me a while, but I think I've finally "got" it, and I ended up enjoying it, once it got to the actual plot. ...more

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