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    Advantages Advantages Very funny

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Rather appalling

    Recently the subject of Cold Comfort Farm cropped up in a cyber-conversation with another Ciaoist, who asked me what I thought of the book. "It's very funny," I found myself replying without much thought, "but rather appalling." Afterwards, I wondered whether the judgement was a bit too glib. I hadn't, come to think of it, read the book for about forty years. Better read it again, I thought, to check. So I did. * The book * Cold Comfort Farm is a spoof. First published in 1932 it mercilessly lampooned the "rustic melodrama" school of novel-writing that was enjoying a vogue at the time. The ... more
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