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Summary: I've read It a thousand times.
Review: If you like to read about animal stories this is the book. Each and every one of the stories is great. His style of writing is excellent, because he makes it seem like your really there.
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Summary: An Animal lover's Classic!!!
Review: If you like to read about animals, This is a fine book to read. All of Herroit's books are great, but this is the most magical of all of his masterpieces. It is certain to be loved by folks of all ages for generations to come.
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Summary: Wonderful reading
Review: It was with a touch of sadness that I reached the end of this series about life as a country vet in Yorkshire. James Harriot was an outstanding storyteller and perhaps one of England's greatest ambassadors of good will! And by the end of this series, I felt as if we were old friends as well! We miss you Alf!
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Summary: Another warm winner from Herriot
Review: James Herriot has an easy-going and warm writing style that is incredibly suited to his stories. He chronicles the animals and people he helps as an active veternarian in Yorkshire, England. As such, the stories are usually more about the people and their attachment to their pets and livestock than they are about the animals themselves. Although the time period is not explicitly mentioned and he jumps around in time a great deal, this book seems to cover the period right after his preceeding book (The Lord God Made Them All), the late 50s and early 60s. Herriot's children are now 6-10 years old and play an increasing role in his practice. He also includes a touching series of stories about his and his wife's attempts to tame some farm cats. Every Living Thing was Herriot's final full-length original book, and it is an excellent end to an excellent series.
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Summary: Another warm winner from Herriot
Review: James Herriot has an easy-going and warm writing style that is incredibly suited to his stories. He chronicles the animals and people he helps as an active veternarian in Yorkshire, England. As such, the stories are usually more about the people and their attachment to their pets and livestock than they are about the animals themselves. Although the time period is not explicitly mentioned and he jumps around in time a great deal, this book seems to cover the period right after his preceeding book (The Lord God Made Them All), the late 50s and early 60s. Herriot's children are now 6-10 years old and play an increasing role in his practice. He also includes a touching series of stories about his and his wife's attempts to tame some farm cats. Every Living Thing was Herriot's final full-length original book, and it is an excellent end to an excellent series.
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Summary: As heartful and tearful as its predecessors.
Review: The last words from the gentle and loving pen of Yorkshire's beloved veterinarian is balm for the troubled soul. Herriot skillfully manoeuvres the tight and narrow highwire between genuine humanity and bathos without a stumble, and with loads of kind and respectful humor, often self-deprecating, without being maudlin. This is a must for all Herriot fans and would even serve to convert those animal lovers who have yet to discover this charmingly whimsical, yet so real gentleman vet and his lovely books.
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Summary: As heartful and tearful as its predecessors.
Review: The last words from the gentle and loving pen of Yorkshire's beloved veterinarian is balm for the troubled soul. Herriot skillfully manoeuvres the tight and narrow highwire between genuine humanity and bathos without a stumble, and with loads of kind and respectful humor, often self-deprecating, without being maudlin. This is a must for all Herriot fans and would even serve to convert those animal lovers who have yet to discover this charmingly whimsical, yet so real gentleman vet and his lovely books.
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Summary: More from the Yorkshire veterinarian the world loves
Review: The late Alf Wight aka James Herriot left a legacy of books that excites readers to this day (and I presume will do so for decades more.) His gentle, self-deprecating style of humor and the portraits of the Yorkshire Dales farmers and country people are amusing and interesting.The four books, named after a hymn "All Creatures Great and Small" are joined by this fifth volume with similar stories. James (as Alf called himself) now has his own practice in Skeldale House, is married with two kids. The stories are very similar to the first four, with goof-ups, miracles, and funny tales. Somehow, these stories are not quite as hilarious as the first set, possibly because Mr. Herriot had written up most of the good stuff, or to represent the seriousness of raising two kids and having his own practice and being a settled man rather than a raw youth just out on his own. Nonetheless, if you lapped up all the "Creature" books, as I did, and you mourn the loss of Dr. Wight, who passed away in the 90's, then you will want to read these stories and vicariously enjoy more of the daily life of a country vet.
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Summary: Gently humorous
Review: This book is the last book written by James Herriot - actually James Alfred Wight (1916-95). James, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, qualified as a veterinarian at 23 years of age, and quickly fell with his new location of Yorkshire. Beginning in 1970, James began to write books, reaching into his years of experience as a vet, and spinning out enthralling and entertaining stories of things that did happen and things that might have happened on the Yorkshire Dales.
As I said, this book was James's last, being published in 1992. In it, we read adventures of a country vet, doing battle against disease, hypochondriac pet-owners, uncooperative animals, the weather, other vets, and...just about everything. This is another great James Herriot - All Creatures book, one that I loved as much as the earlier books. If you like good storytelling, or are interested in veterinarians, then you will love this book. It is a gently humorous story that is sure to entertain all. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: I'd rather forget this experience.
Review: This book was sub par and did not capture the mood of the old man. I would not recommend this book.
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