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  <title><![CDATA[All Creatures Great and Small]]></title>
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  <default_description>Incorporates &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1038979.If_Only_They_Could_Talk&quot;&gt;If Only They Could Talk&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/278262.It_Shouldn_t_Happen_to_a_Vet&quot;&gt;It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet&lt;/a&gt;

Take an unforgettable journey through the English countryside and into the homes of its inhabitants; four-legged and otherwise; with the world's best-loved animal doctor.

For over 25 years, since &lt;i&gt;All Creatures Great and Small&lt;/i&gt; was first published, readers have delighted to the storytelling genius of James Herriot, the Yorkshire veterinarian whose fascinating vignettes brim with the wonder of life, animal and human.

Whether struggling mightily to position a calf for birthing, or comforting a lonely old man whose beloved dog and only companion has died, Herriot's heartwarming and often hilarious stories of his first years as a country vet perfectly depict the wonderful relationship between man and animal and they intimately portray a man whose humor, compassion , and love of life are truly inspiring.
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1972</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>All Creatures Great and Small</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[James Herriot]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Meg]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>6</votes>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[my friend Janet]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Oct 14 09:50:31 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 03 20:32:43 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 14 09:50:31 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have this problem--an addiction, really--called BOOKS.  I start reading one and I usually can't stop until I realize that awful smell is... ME!... or my kids do that incessant-tapping-on-my-shoulder thing to ask if dinnertime will be occurring before bedtime...  (I know, I know.  Probably shouldn'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23653944">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11952318">
    <user id="329383">
    <name><![CDATA[Dale]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Sterling, VA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>5</votes>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 08 05:52:07 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 14 08:22:50 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's semi-astonishing that I've been married to a veterinarian for a year and a half, which followed a year and nine months of dating/engagement, in which time I went on many emergency calls with her to treat sick horses (and the occasional goat), adopted a dog and a second cat to go with the first ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11952318">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25932756">
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    <name><![CDATA[Shoap]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 30 12:18:01 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 08 10:47:30 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is well, spectacular, in a normal day way. James Herriot had a way of showing how little annoying, silly, and/or normal everyday events are truly remarkable. This book has those fuuny moments, embarrasing moments with those sweet ones that can only be called miracles.<br/><br/>I have rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25932756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52547547">
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    <name><![CDATA[Danielle &quot;The Book Huntress&quot;]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Round Rock, TX]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[lovers of animals, lover of everyday humor in storytelling, people in the veterinary field]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1993</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 13 15:26:38 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 14 05:22:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a future veterinarian growing up, I was told by many people to read this book. It is apparently considered a rite of passage for those who want to enter the veterinary field.  Finally I did read it when I was in my junior year of college before vet school. It was wonderful. Herriot is a hilarious...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52547547">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21454927">
    <user id="1134415">
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    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <votes>2</votes>
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  <date_added>Fri May 02 08:10:28 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 27 18:13:07 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This book was a fun read. Very humorous, and funny characters. If you like animals this is a good book for you.]]></body>
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    <review id="48247102">
    <user id="1909872">
    <name><![CDATA[Zoe]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Fairfax, VA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 04 14:20:51 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 04 14:24:26 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had always been curious about this book, because there was such a great fuss over it that persisted well into my life (it was written shortly before I was born). Well, the fuss is all true - this is one of the best books I have ever read - an autobiography, technically, about a simple man who love...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48247102">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1785825">
    <user id="118726">
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    <location><![CDATA[520859, Singapore]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 08 18:26:46 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 11 14:26:33 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't sure that I would like James Herriot's works when I first came across them. A collection of animal stories by a country vet, I thought, but how wrong I was. I was well and truly engrossed the minute I started. His tales are so much more than that! They are beautifully crafted stories that a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1785825">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="38266098">
    <user id="1256262">
    <name><![CDATA[Ron]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Glen Allen, VA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 20 17:50:13 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 20 17:52:20 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good story telling, but even more enjoyable: a window into a time and place not so far from our own to seem really foreign, but still different. <br/><br/>Almost magical, like seeing a white rabbit carrying a watch or a river rat punting across the shallows.]]></body>
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    <review id="70342914">
    <user id="1533441">
    <name><![CDATA[Shanna]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 07 07:07:37 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 07 07:07:37 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[All Creatures Great and Small opens an unforgettable series of personal memoirs by a country veterinarian in 1940's Yorkshire (also known as James Alfred Wight).  These are written in a series of short chapter vignettes, with a warm, wry humor that vividly, affectionately, and sometimes mercilessly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70342914">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41959817">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dina]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Tucson, AZ]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 05 09:00:25 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 05 09:09:56 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was looking for a light read and was big in &quot;The Dog Whisperer&quot; mode when, in a discussion with my mom, I decided this was just what I needed.<br/><br/>The book covers Herriot's first two years as a veterinarian in the Yorkshire region of Great Britain. I believe the years are 1937-39....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41959817">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="19101127">
    <user id="611532">
    <name><![CDATA[Stephanie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Becka Kennedy]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Wed Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 31 09:41:11 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 16 16:56:25 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know how it has taken me this long to discover this classic. James Herriot writes about his experiences as a country vet in the Yorkshire Dales just before WWII. Reading about the treatment techniques used at that time was far more interesting and engrossing than I thought. I found the stori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19101127">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="213321">
    <user id="12586">
    <name><![CDATA[Kerry]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone who loves animals]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Mar 09 11:07:33 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 09 11:09:54 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yet another book I loved lent to me by Bonnie during college.  It appealed to childhood Kerry and said, &quot;Remember how you wanted to be a vet for about three years in elementary school?  Yeah, you would never have been able to handle it.  But don't feel bad.  Read me and live vicariously through...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/213321">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77179985">
    <user id="2923297">
    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Provo, UT]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 08 23:55:36 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 09 21:12:49 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[James Herriot's memoirs of his country veterinarian practice are the perfect anodyne after you get all worked up by Michael Crichton. It's amazing how much humor and humanity he packs into such an unlikely and obscure subject. It is simply superb writing, and the world he opens is one you'd never se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77179985">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8891182">
    <user id="610795">
    <name><![CDATA[Dixie Diamond]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Spring, TX]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 05 06:39:32 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 09 12:03:03 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 09 12:05:28 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I used to work for a veterinarian and I still cannot believe the number of people, even animal lovers, who have not read Herriot's accounts.<br/><br/>These are pure gold.  They are not painless Disney fantasy--there is plenty in them that is gruesome, maddening, and heartbreaking--but they are all...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8891182">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2923340">
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    <name><![CDATA[Moonburst]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chesterton, IN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 10 18:37:11 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 11 10:49:31 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought I had read this book all the way through when I was in elementary. However, I found a bookmark in the book, so I think I only made it to chapter 52 or so. So I'm re-reading it.<br/><br/><br/>Having re-read it, I can honestly say that I love the book, and am looking forward to getting my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2923340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44405241">
    <user id="1955255">
    <name><![CDATA[Megan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Jan 26 10:32:04 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 30 09:51:17 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I belive Herriot will eventually gain the reputation he deserves as both a short story writer and non-fiction essayist.  He is already beginning to appear in some anthologies, but deserves more attention from the academy.  It seems to me there is a tendency for academics to prize literature that is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44405241">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 10 12:04:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 24 08:57:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I gobbled this book up when I saw it at a friend's house in Belgrade...(weird.)  Anyway.  I read most of it in one day, and then the rest out loud to my husband.  The details about the Yorkshire dales, the animals, the food, the people, are yummy.  My only qualm was the narrator seemed to take a pas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59170217">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 07 08:02:40 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 07 08:04:51 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent book written by a vet who deals with animals in Britain's countryside.  Some of the spin-offs weren't as great, but all were a good read.  They're funny, heartwarming &amp; full of fun stories about livestock &amp; pets, but most especially about their odd owners. ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Jun 20 01:18:04 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 24 19:25:04 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wry and charming book of the Yorkshire Dales in the early 20's or 30's. Herriot is a vet with a new license and is eager to begin as a junior vet in a thriving farm/town vet practice. If you enjoy this book, you'll also like <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42909.All_Things_Wise_and_Wonderful" title="All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot">All Things Wise and Wonderful</a>, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38743.All_Things_Bright_and_Beautiful" title="All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot">All Things Bright and Beautiful</a>, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38739.The_Lord_God_Made_Them_All" title="The Lord God Made Them All by James Herriot">The Lord God Made Them All</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60389501">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Jul 26 16:41:24 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 26 16:47:41 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[James Herriot has such a natural writing style that's so easy to understand and appreciate. He describes his characters with humor and every chapter has some hilarious scene that makes you laugh so hard it hurts...every book lover should read one of his gems!]]></body>
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