anybody read James Herriot?

[Enelya]

i was wondering if any body has read the books by James Herriot, like All Creatures Great and Small or something else he has written.

~Enelya~

[Bonos-Girl]

yes...god yes...they were my favourite books for about 5 years...i read the first one when i was about 8 and have read all of them at least 10 times each...i always wanted to be a vet and they had quite a lot of detail about the work as well as comedy...i really loved them and thought that tristan was such a great character...he really reminds me of myself!!

[Tar-Ancalimë]

oooh yeah, me! aren't those books just wonderful? they're cute and touching and really sweet. i really loved them too :grin:

[Enelya]

sigfried is my favorite character i think because of his constantly changing opinions on every thinglol

[Lady Arien]

I've read them and re-read them, in fact, I read all of them at least once every couple of years. In addition to the 3 original, "Bright and Beautiful," "Wise and Wonderfu" and "Great and Small, " there was fourth book called "The Lord God Made Them All," which was my favorite by far, as his daughter started doing his rounds with him. Also, one Christmas, my mother gifted me with another treasure "James Herriot's Yorkshire," which is a picture biography of Herriot himself, Skeldale House, and the farms and countryside he visited on a daily basis.

As far as my favorite character, I have to say it would be the exuberant, overly-indulgent, fantastically generous Granville Bennett....poor James!!

I still have the page from People magazine when they profiled him after his death....a fantastic writer...one of the few authors I would have loved to have met personally.

[Miruvor]

And the TV series (I think from BBC) was great, too!

[Enelya]

yah i never saw it but my mom said it was great

[Ronin]

We have all the original tapes from a friend of my aunt back in wales when the series aired. surprisingly, great quality!

loved the series and adore the books...spent hours as a kid in a bath delving into them...no wonder i prune so much lol

[Enelya]

we get this catalog(cant remember name)that always has the complete set for sale on dvd or tape. but my mom wont buy it she always says to wait for it to come on PBS.

[Ronin]

nothing like DVD....

[Enelya]

yes *sigh* DVD.......

[Ronin]

yes...well, saying the same thing but 3 months ago...it may happen just yet

[Bonos-Girl]

i didn't see the tv series either....there were more books than that..there was:
vet in harness
and some others which i've forgotten the names of..the ones someone mentioned a few posts back where the kinda compilations of the funniest stories from each book...

[SindarinGirl]

I had a huge crush on the guy playing Tristan in the tv series! :drool: He was one of the Doctors Who, too. Can't remember his name, now, but I had it pretty bad for him. :loveyou:

Oh, yeah , I read the books, too :blush:

[Bonos-Girl]

ok..i havew a feeling someone has to find me a picture....i always fancied him in the books....lol

[Lady Arien]

I managed to catch the show on TV a couple times....I had a bit of a literary crush on Tristan myself....anyone who could pull off a Rayne's ghost impersonation was tops...but I was severely disappointed by the guy who played him in the series....not my idea of a proper Tristan at all...hehehehe

[Bonos-Girl]

i read "vets might fly" again last night...and actually i think, although tristan kinda reminds me of myself i think i'm a mix of him and seigfriend...i can't remember what it was but something he said....

[Ronin]

I thought Tristan in the series pulled off the character very nicely, tho, as always, something to be desired whenever there's an adaptation. tho, saying that...i did start watching the blasted things ever since i was a wee tot, so i'm sure there's a little bit of a bias. oh, and btw, the books are lovely, but rot when it comes to the war. at least thats what i thought when i was 12...maybe time to reread ;)

[Ranger]

I haven't read them myself but my mam has all of the books he's wrote. There's an old series on too that's based on the book "All Creatures Great and Small."

[Ronin]

Aye, that would be the series we were talking about :grin:

[Bonos-Girl]

i searched all over the web and couldn't find any pictures fomr the series....i should just buy the DVD i guess! lol would save a lot of trouble!!

i found the rest of the books last night so i spent the morning reading "if only they could talk". I think it might be my favourite one.....its the first one and describes seigfred and everything (i still can't spell that name!) really well....

[Ronin]

u must be blind girl! ;)

just a few, more info than anything (http://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/acgas/)

but u will find out how to spell siegfried :grin:

[Lalaith]

Oh, I loved James Herriott's books when I was younger! I read them all repeatedly...

I really wanted to become a vet on the strength of those books. Then I figured that my cat allergy might pose some problems lol so I settled on medicine instead.. (To the best of my knowledge, other humans don't make me sneeze!)

[Ronin]

lol....u poor thing, but then, whilst purrs might be nice, fur does tend to get everywhere ;)

[Bonos-Girl]

thanks Ronin! lol i can't believe i still can't spell siegfried (and i copied that from your post so hopefully its right!) lol

[Ronin]

lol...if all else fails, copy ;)

[Bonos-Girl]

although...i didn't use copy and paste...and although tried copying letteer for letter i still spelt it wrong but then corrected it! lol

[Lalaith]

Originally posted by Lady Arien
I managed to catch the show on TV a couple times....I had a bit of a literary crush on Tristan myself....anyone who could pull off a Rayne's ghost impersonation was tops...but I was severely disappointed by the guy who played him in the series....not my idea of a proper Tristan at all...hehehehe

Ah, I have to agree... I think my first literary crush as you so nicely term it was quite possibly Tristan! :grin:

And, while the TV show was actually really good, it seems very dated now, and Tristan just wasn't...well... Tristan...

Does anyone remember that spoiled Pekingese dog? Tricksy-Woo? lol There were some fantastic characters in those books - and many of them were animals!!

[Ronin]

i loved that dear lil' dog...and those darling christmas baskets ;) lol

[Catz]

youre worried about your spelling and youre copying Ronin? :p lol
and i say that as the queen of tryping too lol
i loved the pig that Tricksies mumsie bought.......Nugent........heheh and the gardener insisted on calling him Nudist..........very cute ;)
:catz:

[Lalaith]

Oh! The pig! I had forgotten that! lol

All I really remember are Tricksy-Woo and the rather graphic calving descriptions.... Icky!

I really should read those books again.... I know I have them lying around somewhere...

[Bonos-Girl]

i love tricky-woo. he went flop-bot and crackerdog! lol brilliant names....but his owner was really evil...ok..not that evil..but she should've done was herriot said.....then he wouldn't have gone crackerdog! lol