To answer a quesion asked in comments

[james_davis_nicoll]

[Poll #1867811]

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[txanne.livejournal.com]

Other option: one of my friends intoning "I saw something narsty in the wood-shed" at opportune moments, which led to the reading and the seeing.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

None of the above because i've not been convinced that any of them are worth reading/seeing.

[bedii.livejournal.com]

CCF is, especially if you've read any of the books she's parodying in the "good parts" asterisked sections so you know what she's harpooning. The film is if it's the BBC/TTV version--I've never seen the other TV version so can't speak to it. I made it 50 pages into the Martin and decided it wasn't for me, so have never been tempted by the series.

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Cats!

I've read a couple of the GRRM tales. Is he planning to end the series or just keep it going until he dies, like RA Salvatore? And does anybody really care?

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

I sort-of second this. I read the first of the GRRM books and decided it wasn't for me. So was I wrong to click the first box?

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I have read excerpts from COld Comfort Farm, which I somehow always confuse with I Capture the Castle.

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

And a million fan-fics bloom!

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

I've seen the Song of Ice books, but not read them. Your question was ambiguous!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I've read CCF many times - it's a wonderful book, and the adaptation was pretty good. Read up to volume 3 part 1 of SoIaF, holding out on the TV series until I get around to finishing the books.

Somewhere out there is a massive Game of Thrones / Avengers fanfic in which Tony Stark plays the obvious role.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen CCF as I doubt the show could be as funny as the book. Tried GRRM first book, not my cuppa, zero interest in the TV show.

[alyxyn.livejournal.com]

I thought it was delightful, and watching it prompted me to get and read the book, which was equally delightful and at least provided footnotes. Plus it has Ian McKellen and Stephen Fry in it.

[chomiji]

I don't watch TV!

I got the GRRM books as a gift last year and have not been able to make myself read them yet. On the other hand, I think that I might enjoy Cold Comfort Farm.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I would watch TV but it's too expensive to watch it on the television and too complicated to watch it on the computer.

If I did, though, I'd be unlikely to watch ruling class soap operas anyway.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

I read through Feast for Crows and stopped, and stopped after episode 1 of the TV show for some of ice and fire.

I might get back to it some day. When I'm out of things I really enjoy reading.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Was there a TV series of CCF? I saw a film, and it was deliciously true to the book.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

That was the BBC/Thames Television's adaptation of Cold Comfort Farm.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

you should have as a choice

I have avoided both and stayed home to pet my cats.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

I cracked up the other day when someone used "Sukebind" as a plant in a Harry Potter fanfic.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

A conversation I was having recently was derailed by a completely appropriate and in-context reference to one o' they Ford vans.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Have not read or watched any of those. ("Seen" suggests having looked at the covers of the books, and I have done that.)

Much more likely to read Cold Comfort Farm than the Martin.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

I am wondering what connections you found between these works?

[felila.livejournal.com]

I think I read Cold Comfort Farm forty years ago or so, but I don't remember it clearly. I read the first volume of Game of Thrones and decided that it was too dang depressing and I would read no more.

As for watching anything on TV -- mostly don't, except for Doctor Who.

[redbird]

Thousands of others, what are you looking for in particular?

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

I've heard a lot about Cold Comfort Farm but I've never actually read the book or seen any adaptation of it. I've read all the Martins and watched all the HBO episodes at least once.

[azurelunatic]

So far on my slog through Cold Comfort Farm, our heroine has made it on the train.

Even that far in, I can confidently not recommend it to anyone who feels as though their education has left them completely helpless in the current economy, and who has moved in with parents or other relatives. I suspect it is much funnier to read while fully economically secure.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

YMMV. I read it when I was freshly educated in an unsalable field, in debt, scraping by on an erratic income in an economy that was hostile to put it mildly.

[maruad.livejournal.com]

None, so I used some other option.

[nishatalitha.livejournal.com]

Other option: I have read some of and seen some of Game of Thrones. I haven't finished either. Well, maybe the book, but certainly not the series.

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

I have read Gone to Earth by Mary Webb, which some claim to be one of the works parodied in Cold Comfort Farm.

[matt-ruff.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the effort, but to actually answer the question you need a checkbox for people who've read both GRRM and Gibbons. What this poll tells me is that the two readerships are within one degree of Nicoll of each other, which isn't quite the same thing.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I am one of those who has read both, seen the CCF TV show that I thought was a movie, and had seen none of the GoT show.

[asyouknow-bob.livejournal.com]

Which of these have you seen or read?

- George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books

And that's the problem, right there: I'm not going to make a decision whether or not to read the books until the final volume is in my local bookstore. As I haven't seen it, I'm not going to even consider reading them.

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

I have also read Sucharitkul's Inquestor series and Edward Eager's entire output. Are they relevant?

--Dave, off to inquire at the nearby wikipedia about Cold Comfort Farm