MobileRead April 2010 Mobile Read Book Club Vote - Page 4

Ea · 03-26-2010, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Maybe I'll have to read this one too as having grown up on a chicken farm I can likely identify with most of it....

When I was six, we had a chicken farm. My father gave it up though, after a year, partly because of the excessive workload, but especially because raising chickens in a way that earn enough money was no decent way to treat an animal. Especially not an animal you want to eat. At least it wasn't then.

Edit: didn't mean to sound derisive (not sure if it's the right word) - hope I didn't.

Sparrow · 03-26-2010, 07:40 PM

Was there a chicken farm craze in the first half of the twentieth century?

P. G. Wodehouse's 'Love Among the Chickens' is another comic novel on the theme.

Ea · 03-26-2010, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Sparrow

Was there a chicken farm craze in the first half of the twentieth century?

I'm not that old!

kennyc · 03-26-2010, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Ea

I'm not that old!

Me Either! My chicken escapades were in the 1960's timeframe...

Moe The Cat · 03-26-2010, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

Me Either! My chicken escapades were in the 1960's timeframe...

I believe you can get arrested for chicken escapades these days ...

Ea · 03-26-2010, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Moe The Cat

I believe you can get arrested for chicken escapades these days ...

But once upon a time those were the days...

Zipr · 03-26-2010, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Ea

But once upon a time those were the days...

Not the change the subject but, you are quite the photographer. I especially like your Iceland photos.

Ea · 03-26-2010, 09:22 PM

Deleted - double post.

Ea · 03-26-2010, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Zipr

Not the change the subject but, you are quite the photographer. I especially like your Iceland photos.

Not to worry. Change of subject is par for the course. Thank you very much for your comment and compliment. It's appreciated - I'm still quite a beginner.

kennyc · 03-26-2010, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Moe The Cat

I believe you can get arrested for chicken escapades these days ...

I thought that was hamsters?

Ea · 03-26-2010, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

I thought that was hamsters?

That too, darlin'. Better watch out

dreams · 03-26-2010, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Sparrow

Was there a chicken farm craze in the first half of the twentieth century?

P. G. Wodehouse's 'Love Among the Chickens' is another comic novel on the theme.

It isn't one of his in the MR Library, but... Found it at manybooks and a mp3 from librivox

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The story is told from the point of view of Jeremy Garnet, an author and an old friend of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge. Upon meeting Ukridge for the first time in years, Garnet finds himself dragged along on holiday to Ukridge's newly-started chicken farm. From then on the novel intertwines Garnet's difficult wooing of a girl living the estate with the struggles of the farm, and the neighbourhood, to cope with Ukridge's bizarre business methods.

I have to read this one, just because I loved the other one so much. Thanks, Sparrow !

d2photo · 03-27-2010, 02:05 AM

The Egg and I, I have an original in this and LOVE it - been trying to find another as mine is in poor shape. Betty MacDonald also wrote some others (besides the children's books) that are also a worthy read.

Sparrow · 03-27-2010, 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by dreams

It isn't one of his in the MR Library, but... Found it at manybooks and a mp3 from librivox

I have to read this one, just because I loved the other one so much. Thanks, Sparrow !

Your welcome dreams.

Project Gutenberg also have a couple of versions:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3829
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20532 (illustrated)

It turns out the text of the two PG versions are very different - I might have to read both when I find time.

kennyc · 03-27-2010, 07:16 AM

Go Eyre Go!

View Poll Results: April 2010 Mobile Read Book Club Vote
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald	19	25.33%
Topper by Thorne Smith	5	6.67%
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole	10	13.33%
My man Jeeves by P G Wodehouse	2	2.67%
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain	7	9.33%
Fool by Christopher Moore	3	4.00%
Augustus Carp, Esq. - Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man by Henry Bashford	0	0%
A Damon Runyon Omnibus	1	1.33%
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore	10	13.33%
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde	16	21.33%
Candide by Voltaire	2	2.67%
Voters: 75. You may not vote on this poll

03-26-2010, 09:22 PM	#53
Ea Wizard Posts: 3,490 Karma: 5239563 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Denmark Device: Kindle 3\|iPad air\|iPhone 4S	Deleted - double post. Last edited by Ea; 03-26-2010 at 09:26 PM.

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03-26-2010, 07:40 PM	#47
Sparrow Wizard Posts: 4,395 Karma: 1358132 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK Device: Palm TX, CyBook Gen3	Was there a chicken farm craze in the first half of the twentieth century? P. G. Wodehouse's 'Love Among the Chickens' is another comic novel on the theme.

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03-27-2010, 07:16 AM	#60
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