tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116725405154613998.post3561999181174319263..comments2023-05-04T06:30:59.672-04:00Comments on Book Buddies: CCF ~ one more post from BonnieUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116725405154613998.post-80445883903756772372008-01-01T17:31:00.000-05:002008-01-01T17:31:00.000-05:00I never thought of using Wikipedia either. How coo...I never thought of using Wikipedia either. How cool! I read that article after your post & yes, I did notice the anti-semitic remarks, especially when Mary Smiling referred to the bra lady as the Jew, instead of saying the Jewish lady. This would reflect the signs of the times. Also, remarks about class were noticed as well. <BR/>All those future references made me stop reading. I asked myself when did the first TV come out? I thought that it was much latter in the 1950's. :)<BR/>The shed - I didn't even realize that the name of the shed had changed names. LOL!! First I thought that the nasty was someone being raped, but the father having an affair sounds more like what happened, if anything happened at all. After all, the book is supposed to be funny. <BR/>I liked the family tree as well. Thanks for posting this, Bonny.Tobyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03983786152925210235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116725405154613998.post-29451797267035315262008-01-01T16:09:00.000-05:002008-01-01T16:09:00.000-05:00Shelly, like you the television phone thing caught...Shelly, like you the television phone thing caught me off guard too! Sorry it has taken me so long to finish the book and finally comment about it. All in all I enjoyed the book. I didn't like it too much in the beginning but once Flora started fixing her relatives I started to enjoy it more.<BR/><BR/>Ada Doom and the thing in the wood shed. I think in another post maybe by Shirley it was mentioned that no where in the book did it come out and say what was in the wood shed. That is correct. I got a big kick out of the outhouse being mentioned. I think that would have been funnier if it was the outhouse instead of the woodshed.<BR/><BR/>Here is what was mentioned. First Ada called it the wood shed then she kept changing it to the tool shed, the bicycle shed etc. This was in Chapter Ten the last couple of pages. It was also mentioned that what was seen in the wood shed had made her marriage a prolonged nightmare. And the other thing that was mentioned was that she had never told her mother. Seeing that she kept changing the name of the shed at will led me to believe that it didn't matter what kind of shed it was, that this nasty thing could take place in any shed. She didn't tell her mother and it made her marriage a prolonged nightmare. I am guessing that she saw her father having intimate relations with another woman. But of course the point of the nasty thing in the shed made her mad and this is how she controlled the people at Cold Comfort Farm. Lol.<BR/><BR/>CandyCandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15080266305597326438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116725405154613998.post-65746069503126211732008-01-01T03:32:00.000-05:002008-01-01T03:32:00.000-05:00I noticed towards the beginning the restaurant the...I noticed towards the beginning the restaurant they were in was made of glass-ceiling, walls, and floors. The phone-television thing caught me off guard too. I read it through about 4 times,and then I remembered the note at the start of the book that it was "sometime in the near future." I liked the book, but honestly, I like almost everything!Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18408471966661831444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116725405154613998.post-24446695157541006162007-12-31T12:34:00.000-05:002007-12-31T12:34:00.000-05:00I wouldn't have thought of Wikipedia either, Shirl...I wouldn't have thought of Wikipedia either, Shirley, but it was the best thing that came up when I googled Cold Comfort Farm. I was especially happy with that family tree because it helped me sort out the people.Bonnie Jacobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07813549471704485150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7116725405154613998.post-426423235329840872007-12-31T05:52:00.000-05:002007-12-31T05:52:00.000-05:00I'd never thought of Wikipedia as a source of info...I'd never thought of Wikipedia as a source of information about books. <BR/><BR/>Although your comments shed some light and helped me reminisce about the book, I don't remember enough detail about it to recall the futuristic references. This wound up being the least favorite of the books we've read so far.Shirleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10155188609487120887noreply@blogger.com