Customer Reviews
Smashing!!! - By: Clare, 22 Aug 2005 
This book is a collection of short stories about the life & work of the vet James Herriot. These stories, which lead on from each other, are both about looking after farm animals in cold fields, & dealing with both pet animals & their owners in the surgery & in the owners homes.
All things bright & beautiful will either put you off ever wanting to be a vet or will make you want to be a vet. It glamourises being up in the middle of the night, standing in freezing cold fields & not being able to save people's pets. When this was first published there was a massive increase in the number of people applying to study at university to be vets.
It is a hugely funny book. You can not help but laugh at every smalll detail & you have great sympathy for Herriot in his struggles. His wit never fails, even when he recallls being squashed behind a bull.
All Creatures Great & Smalll is the title the book was published under in America. In England it was callled Vet in Harness.
I would recomend this book to everyone even if they think that it is not their thing. I did not think I would like it & was supprised. It was very popular at one time & was made in to a TV series for a reason.
Sequals are available
An excellent book, and very amusing - By: , 10 Mar 2000 This is a book about James Herriot, who is a vets assistant & always gets the bad patients. His boss, Siegfried Farnon is a very experienced vet, although he drives extremely recklessly & tells James Herriot off for doing things, & then tell him off for doing it again, for example, he once told him never to accept night callls because he had been callled out at 3:00, & then he told him off for not accepting them! He said that he should always accept night callls, because the patients need them! He also gets bad farmers, as once he got a farmer that said the other vet was the best vet ever, but they'd just have to put up with him, & also told him how he does everything, & that he is doing it differently to him.
