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Summary: Best book I ever read!
Review: This is book was absolutely amazing! His stories and characters made me feel like I was right there. Being a gonna-be Veterinarian this is the best book for inspiration. It showed me the pros and cons of being a Vet while creating a warm story that I will always remember!
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Summary: This is a great book!
Review: This book is quite possibly the best book I have ever read! This book started out great and ended just as well as it started. Even though I am only 14 years of age, I still thoroughly enjoyed this book to it's full potential. All in all this book got the highest mark on my chart. If you like animal stories or just like a really good book you should read this one!
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Summary: Calling All Animal Lovers.
Review: All Creatures Great and Small is a book for anyone who loves animals. Or country living. Or medicine. Or good writing. This is a feel-good book. Herriot relates his experiences and emotions as a new country veterinarian in pre-WWII England. Some events are funny, some sad. The book as a whole is moving, uplifting. This first book in his highly successful series is a literary walk down a country lane in Springtime. A great choice for FFA kids, pet nuts, or crabby old people who could benefit from a big whiff of fresh air. --Christopher Bonn Jonnes, author of Wake Up Dead.
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Summary: The beginning of a wonderful story!
Review: James Harriot is perhaps one of my favorite authors. His easy style, good-humor, modesty, and charm permeate his writing...and his subject matter - life as a country vet in Yorkshire in the mid-1900's, is enchanting.
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Summary: The Review of All Creatures Great and Small
Review: All Creatures Great and Small By James Harriot Dr. James Harriot is a veterinarian living in the Yorkshire Dales, in England, the early 1900's. In my book All Creatures Great and Small, James Harriot wrote about the unusual events that happen to him as a veterinarian assistant. Other titles by James Harriot are Cat Stories, Dog Stories, All Things Wise and Wonderful, All Things Bright and Beautiful, and The Lord God Made Them All. The purpose of his books is to prove that things aren't always what they seem. In the first chapter of the book, he is working at a "calving", when he finds that the calf is in the wrong way. He tries to pull him around, but a man called Uncle disturbs him the whole time. He finally pulls the calf out and goes home. In the second chapter he's going to Darrowby to apply to become a veterinarian assistant when his employer, Mr. Farnon isn't there. So he waits for the whole day until he finally comes in and shows him around the Dales. A very sad chapter is Chapter 6, when Dr. Harriot is called to a sick horse. He rushes out there and discovers that the horse has a classical torsion and is dying. When he tells the owner this he gets furious, but before the owner can do anything, Dr. Harriot rushes out to get an injection and finishes the job quick and easy. In conclusion, Dr. James Harriot is a wonderful writer. He has great talent. I would recommend this book to anyone because of the daily chores he does and the activities that an animals' life could depend on.
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Summary: made in heaven are herriot's stories !
Review: I am a student of veterinary medicine in soouth asian cooountry called nepal.NEVER HAD I READ A BOOK LIKE THAT.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I am 16 years old and I thought this was an EXCELLENT book, but what really annoys me is the previous person who wrote a review for this book, they are either too young to have read it, or too cold and stupid to take any of it to heart, BECAUSE IT IS A BRILLIANT BOOK !!!!
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Summary: Keep a box of Kleenex handy!
Review: I really have nothing to add to all of the previous comments, except that "I agree...what a great book!!!"This book is also a perfect volume for reading at bedtime or on the bus because it is broken into about fifty short, stand-alone stories, so you can read just a little each night, or put it down for six months and pick right back up where you started. Some of the stories and insights just rip your heart out. His compassion for animals and people alike is inspiring and will bring a tear to your eye. What a great storyteller!
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Summary: O.K. book, but not enough excitement
Review: I am a 14 year old, and had to read this book for Honor's English over the summer. I got to pick the book, and I made the wrong choice. It is long and boring, and there is no excitement to make you want to keep reading. The book consists of James, the narrarator and author going to farms and treating animals. There are many complicated medical terms and half the time I didn't know what was going on with the aminal. It has its good parts, but they are few and far between. I wold not have finished it if I didn't have to.
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Summary: interesting, whimsically funny, but above all instructive
Review: You have probably heard that Herriot is heart-warming, enjoyable, and all that. (It's all true.) But how so? And what is so instructive about it? Herriot was a small-town veterinarian who practiced for over half a century in Yorkshire, Great Britain. He took notes and remembered stories. He did such a good job of it that he was able to put together half a dozen books of his recollections. The accumulated stories are a delightful account of his efforts to get started in the practice, the whole gamut of farmers and pet owners in his area, and all the little details you normally wouldn't hear about. What a man he must have been to have for a grandfather. The great unheralded benefit of Herriot's writing, in my view, is for the small businessperson who has a limited number of potential clients and who must win them over to succeed. By seeing how Herriot handled a certain type of customer, one can improve the way one deals with one's own customers. The excellent results he ultimately got while dealing with some very tough customers in difficult situations can show the way and inspire you to greater patience and effort. This, in my view, is the hidden value of Herriot.
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