My Family and Other Animals

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Summary: A delight, a pleasure and wonderful reading
Review: Easy going, a laugh on every page. A wonderful true story with a fascinating family. I highly recommend this book to young and old. I just finished reading his other books and wish he had written more.

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Summary: An absolutley incredible story!!
Review: My uncle sent me this book for my 14th birthday, and although I had never even heard of this great author, everything he wrote identified with the way I act toward animals. ( I mean, who wouldn't bring a matchbox full of scorpions into the house?) Anyway, if you have ever even come close to liking animals, and you are contemplating buying this book, PLEASE! Don't hesitate!

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Summary: sweet, touching, makes childhood memories come alive
Review: This book was a part of our course for Cambridge.I read it when I was fifteen, and I adored it.Now I'm twenty-five years old and am looking foward to reading this book again.Haapy READING!

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Summary: I extremely loved it!
Review: I totally identified myself with Gerard. He has an incredible way to describe all the circumstances of his life. And I'm a zoologist, so I enjoyed it more!

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Summary: I want to live on Corfu - this book is responsible!
Review: I can trace the fact that I've always been drawn to the Greek islands directly to this book. I first read it as a child, and the careful and playful descriptions of people, places, flora, and fauna made me long to live on Corfu. I must admit that the author's descriptions of the misadventures of his eccentric family (including his brother, author Lawrence Durell) were my favorite parts of the book. I'm buying a fresh copy for my 18-year old daughter, who is lucky enough to be headed for Greece for 3 months. I want her to see Greece through the eyes of the person who most strongly influenced my vision of the country - Gerry Durell.

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Summary: Humor at its best.
Review: I have read this book twice and would not mind reading it for the third time. Any animal-lover would consider this book to be extremely fascinating and comic. This wonderful book should be read by every child in order to germinate the interest and concern for nature.

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Summary: Ho-hum about animals? Not any more, if you read this!
Review: I discovered this magical book in Corfu, where the story is based. Thank God! Corfu is incredible and so is this book. The Rose Beetle Man alone is worth the entire book..or how about the praying mantis mating scene on the wall? Each character, human and animal is magically drawn and stays in your mind for a lifetime. Not bad. And its charming and funny and touching. I have become an animal advocate, writing letters in support of whales, and now have three wonderful pets, possibly totally as a result of reading this book 30 years ago. And again and again. Its very very good! Linda Schiller-Hanna

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Summary: A book for the whole family that you can read over and over.
Review: I first read this book when I was 8 (I am 12 now in 1998) and after that I was engulfed by the magic of Gerald Durrel and his writings. My greatest regret was that I never got to meet him , for he died before I was born , and now I would like to follow in his footsteps and become a zoologist for I too share his passion with animals.I have read almost all of his books including Catch Me a Collabus, Rosy is My Relative and many others.

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Summary: This book brings Corfu alive in your own home
Review: I first read this book when I was at school, in the 1970s, and I just loved it. From then on it was a dream of mine to visit Corfu, as Gerald Durrell was such a gifted writer, he made the island come alive. Years later, at the end of the 1980s I finally got to go to Corfu for a holiday (and I went the following 3 years too!). But that first year, as the plane came in to land, the tears welled up in my eyes - my dream had come true, I was in Corfu; and I found that everything Gerald had written about the island was true. A wonderful, wonderful book; and a beautiful island.

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Summary: how I do love this book.....
Review: I first read this book in 7th grade and have read it dozens of times since. I feel like I know the Durrell family almost as well as my own. While living in Europe a few years ago, I stumbled on part three of the Corfu trilogy, The Garden of the Gods, while greedily scanning the shelves of an English bookstore in Florence. It is just as good. Part 2, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, eludes me. Maybe I'll order it from here. I just love his writing style. This book never fails to cheer me up when I feel down. Read this book - you will not forget it!!