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10-18-2002, 11:05 PM
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Elven Warrior
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James Harriot
Has anyone ever read of James Harriot's work? Its great stuff. If you're an animal lover you'd love these books. If you're not you still might like them.
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10-18-2002, 11:09 PM
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Could you name some titles you'd recommend, and describe them briefly?
Are they animal-personification, or do they appeal to animal-lovers in some other way?
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10-18-2002, 11:13 PM
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Elven Warrior
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The only title I can think of now is his "Dog Tales" or something like that. It's composed of (get this) tales about dogs. They're all true stories about his life as a country vet. I think they're set in England.
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10-19-2002, 01:01 AM
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Elven Warrior
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Anecdotes by a country vet working the Yorkshire Dales. Time period is vaguely around the 1930s and 1940s. The stories are very very sweet and cute and funny. There are just a series of stories about the funny situations and people you come across as an English country vet in that time period. I'm not a big animal lover, but the stories are really quite funny. If you are interested, the most famous is "All Creatures Great and Small". But there's a whole series along the same lines. There is also a cute television series based on this series.
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10-19-2002, 11:03 AM
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Elven Maiden
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yes there is; I love the show. I have a book called Animal Stories but I have only read a few. One was about Tricky Woo! Tricky Woo is the coolest!
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10-19-2002, 06:26 PM
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Elven Warrior
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There is a show?!? What station plays it?
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10-19-2002, 06:31 PM
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I've read some.
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10-19-2002, 06:34 PM
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10-19-2002, 06:35 PM
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Elven Warrior
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You know, I just might do that.
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10-21-2002, 09:23 PM
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mmm...my grandma had all of those books. I used to read them when we would go to her house on Sunday afternoons for tea.
The book titles run just like the old hymn. They are: -All things bright and beautiful -All creatures great and small -All things wise and wonderful -The Lord God made them all and -James Herriot's Dog Tales (note the correct spelling of his name  )my favorite was always the story about Moses the kitten
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11-04-2002, 04:43 PM
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Viewers of the TV series please note, he should have been played with a Scottish accent! He spent all his working life in England but was originally a Glaswegian.
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Re: James Harriot
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His stories are full of warm fuzzies. I happen to be an animal lover, and I enjoyed this book so much, I tried to pace myself, rather than gobble it up like I usually do. Sometimes sad, but mostly upbeat. Adventures of brother Tristan and boss Sigfried are laugh-out-lound funny. It's a quiet, enchanting book, not unlike the Hobbit.
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