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My family and other animals by Gerald Durrell
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My family and other animals

by Gerald Durrell

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A favourite book beautifully illustrated throughout. A delight. ( )
overthemoon | Jul 7, 2009 |  
This book was a book with no plot line, thats not to say it isnt good, it was a funny intriguing book. This is a book for people who dont like to follow a complicated plot line, just to have a laugh at a different moments in a young boys life. ( )
ajdixson | Jun 18, 2009 |  
I loved this book! It was really quirky and funny, as the title suggests. I found it in my grandmother's basement and read it this past summer while lounging on my hammock in the shade. It literally made me laugh out loud at times. There were some slow parts but the rest of it made it worth the read. ( )
NanceJ | Feb 14, 2009 |  
A very, very funny book. A series of anectdotes about the author's childhood on a Greek island; the descriptions are quite poetic in some parts of the narrative. The chapter "An Entertainment With Animals" was truly side-splittingly funny and I kept picturing it as some sort of madcap Marx brothers adventure. The scorpion story is also not to be missed. The tales seemed to get funnier as I got farther into the book, but maybe I was just getting used to the humor.
andersonden | Nov 12, 2008 |  
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"It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness."--As You Like It
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To My Mother
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This is the story of a five-year sojourn that I and my family made on the Greek island of Corfu.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0142004413, Paperback)

When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell’s family’s experiences, from the many eccentric hangers-on to the ceaseless procession of puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, bats, and butterflies into their home.

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