Comments on: But It Did Happen To a Vet http://www.jamesherriot.org/but-it-did-happen-to-a-vet/ Making Flop Bott a Household Word Since 2002 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:28:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: August Thurmer http://www.jamesherriot.org/but-it-did-happen-to-a-vet/comment-page-1/#comment-380 August Thurmer Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:16:07 +0000 http://www.jamesherriot.org/?p=8#comment-380 I have enjoyed reading the above article on James Herriot. I have read all his stories several times and have enjoyed his gentle ways with people. I imagine what makes him so likeable is that so many of us fans can identify with his strengths and weaknesses. James can bring the simple aspects of everyday life into view and make one believe that they are sitting among his characters as if they were sharing their joys and sorrows along with them. I have farmed and I eventually became an educator. I live in rural Winona, Minnesota, a area much like what James describes in the Dales. I applaude people like James Wight who can help us to see the best in humanity. August Thurmer I have enjoyed reading the above article on James Herriot. I have read all his stories several times and have enjoyed his gentle ways with people. I imagine what makes him so likeable is that so many of us fans can identify with his strengths and weaknesses. James can bring the simple aspects of everyday life into view and make one believe that they are sitting among his characters as if they were sharing their joys and sorrows along with them. I have farmed and I eventually became an educator. I live in rural Winona, Minnesota, a area much like what James describes in the Dales. I applaude people like James Wight who can help us to see the best in humanity. August Thurmer

]]> By: Linda Grace http://www.jamesherriot.org/but-it-did-happen-to-a-vet/comment-page-1/#comment-369 Linda Grace Sat, 07 May 2011 23:19:17 +0000 http://www.jamesherriot.org/?p=8#comment-369 Thank you for this site! I didn't know any of this. I turned the 50's corner some years back and when I recently found myself chair bound with pneumonia I picked up the James Herriot series. I can't tell you how much I look forward to my daily reading. I get to be outside vicariously but almost palpably, I laugh out loud and and delight in every anecdote. The more I read, the more I am awed by his skill as a writer. Like a painting, a story has to have focus, and everything in the painting, or story, has to lead the viewer, or reader to that focus which i turn highlights the setting sending us back to all the details, which of course lead us again to the focus and around we go, we don't want to stop, they have succeeded. This man is a Master story teller much like Norman Rockwell whom I consider to be much more than an illustrator, he also is a Master story teller with a paint brush as his medium. The two remind me of each other not just because they both lift our spirits while never sugar coating life, but also because they are both Master story tellers; they are also greatly underestimated, in my opinion. These are not just cute animal stories, they're beautifully told slices of life, great classics as far as I'm concerned. I am gratified to hear that our author loved his job because nothing else could have imparted such added richness and dimension to his wonderful books. Thank you for this site! I didn’t know any of this.

I turned the 50′s corner some years back and when I recently found myself chair bound with pneumonia I picked up the James Herriot series. I can’t tell you how much I look forward to my daily reading. I get to be outside vicariously but almost palpably, I laugh out loud and and delight in every anecdote.

The more I read, the more I am awed by his skill as a writer. Like a painting, a story has to have focus, and everything in the painting, or story, has to lead the viewer, or reader to that focus which i turn highlights the setting sending us back to all the details, which of course lead us again to the focus and around we go, we don’t want to stop, they have succeeded.

This man is a Master story teller much like Norman Rockwell whom I consider to be much more than an illustrator, he also is a Master story teller with a paint brush as his medium. The two remind me of each other not just because they both lift our spirits while never sugar coating life, but also because they are both Master story tellers; they are also greatly underestimated, in my opinion.

These are not just cute animal stories, they’re beautifully told slices of life, great classics as far as I’m concerned. I am gratified to hear that our author loved his job because nothing else could have imparted such added richness and dimension to his wonderful books.

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