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Originally Posted by Mithalwen
I found Bored of the Rings very funny when I read it back in the day. Really good parody may have an element of affection in it and if you really love something you can laugh at its faults. Two of my favourite books are Mary Webb's Precious Bane and Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm which is a parody in part of Webb's work (though is a classic in it's own right).
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Read Cold Comfort Farm a few weeks ago and enjoyed it exceedingly. It did feel like a parody of a certain genre, but I didn't think of Mary Webb. I like Precious Bane, too. I thought the film of it was very good - but it was years ago when I saw it (and a long time before I got round to reading the book, although I always try to read the book first).
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