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Wednesday, November 30, 2005

 

Luke Tilden

2725 Lamb Rd.

Mason, MI 48854

November 30, 2005

 

Dear James Herriot,                                                                    11/27/05

         

I greatly appreciated your work ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’.  When reading this book, I always enjoyed how you managed to place a positive approach to any situation encountered in your work.  James Herriot seems always to look for the best in people when he is on his differing cases, even though the silver lining may be hard to find in some.  In my daily life, I realize how hard it can be to have an optimistic mind set, especially in irritating and less desirable situations.  In your story, James always brought this mind set to his daily work and life.  But through the harder situations, remembering James Herriot’s vigilance to maintain an open mind and optimism can help me to adopt the same approach.

         

I greatly enjoyed reading about the various veterinary experiences James encounters, involving a full range of farmyard animals and household pets.  I find it fascinating the great detail you keep the reader in regarding the veterinary work and tasks James goes about.  My grandfather was a surgeon and my father a large animal veterinarian, so you could venture to say that medicine, especially animal medicine, is in my blood.  Your stories have encouraged me to possibly consider becoming a veterinarian or physician.  Also, reading the science aspect involved your book; I have become interested in studying science more intently in my schoolwork.

         

In ‘All things Bright and Beautiful’ I thought it appealing how readers here in American would get a taste of the English culture.  Though American and English cultures maybe considered similar, I appreciated how I was introduced more in-depth to the English culture.  I enjoy studying differing cultures of the world, and this aspect attracted me to your work also.

         

In your work, I liked how you used vivid words and colorful phrases to describe the English countryside, farmyards, overweight dogs and dangerous stallions.  Your creative word choice in your stories has encouraged my imagination and mental picturing abilities to expand.  I always enjoyed coming up with my perspective of your encounters in my mind.

         

When reading your book, I always enjoyed putting the book down.  Not because it was boring or dull, but because I always felt so positive and uplifted after reading your stories.  It lifted my spirits, and your humorous encounters in your work never failed to make me laugh.

         

Thank you very much for the contribution to the world of literature and the small impact you had on my life through your work ‘All things Bright and Beautiful’

 

 

 

Sincerely,

 

 

Luke Tilden

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Wow luke updating.  Ba humbug I was at your house when you did and I told you to do so and it is only a report.  Humbug.
Posted 12/13/2005 9:33 PM by Koorivan - reply

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HEY LUKE!

you seriously need to update and that is from a pro, because i write on many people's who don't update and it gets very annoying,! well write me! see ya~

<3

jlo

Posted 1/9/2006 7:19 PM by jloganfour - reply

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ok, this is what i was talking about yesterday....with the emailing and xanga!

Posted 1/10/2006 4:50 PM by jloganfour - reply

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hiiii luke!! i did not know you had one of these!! wayyy cool!!

*Hannah*
Posted 1/14/2006 10:20 PM by Son_Worshiper - reply

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Luke, you nerd.

God loves you.

UPDATE!!!!!! Before my skin is permeated with unsightly wrinkles, before my bones thin and are straddled by sprawling, puslating veins and my fair visage is clouded with the agony of old age, before my rippling muscles wither in the face of arthritis, before by blonde locks are wisped away by the brutal breeze of time and my glorious memory is reduced to a pale rendition of what it once was, before my hearing fades like the sun late at night, before my eyes are filmed over with the tragic membrane of promises broken and dreams unlived, before my descendants and ancestors populate the earth, spreading my magnificent genome across the byways of the universe, before all agility is torn from my legs when feeble age strikes, before the strength deep within me is crushed by my experiences gone awry and hopes gone to seed, before my vitality becomes stale in comparison to the tattered spirit that the future holds for me, before the souol that shines even now as a blinding beacon to the stray is reduced to pitiful ashes, marred by decades of shouldered burdens, before the intellect that knows no rival is downcast and trampled upon underneath the juggernaut wheels of progress, before the character that defines my luminous life is battered beyond recognition, before my joints are mangled into something hideous and useless, before my vibrant personality is maimed by the hostile society we are condenmed to be tortured by, before my limbs ache with the unbenownst angst of the lonely life, before my health shrinks to a mere shadow of its former fortitude, before my teeth, once so shimmering and kind, are ruthlessly scarred by the depression that besets us all in times of sadness, before my voice, instead of joyous clarity, seems bewildered and tentative, before my talent is whisked off to the abyss by the unstoppable onset of the years that place heavy weights on our backs, before my predictably decaying taste renders everything edible a bland and hopeless concoction, before the wretched waves of loss and regret wash over my very being, choking all happines, stifling all cheerfullness, and drowning all perseverance, before I get really philosophical while I'm working on my rough draft for science and post the world's most dejected, despondent, gloomy, glum, dismal, poignant coma splice ever! Oops, too late for that last one!!!!!!! Heehee!

Posted 4/24/2006 10:33 PM by CharlesIV - reply

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Sheer poetry!
Posted 4/24/2006 10:34 PM by CharlesIV - reply

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u have one of these????

wow

u are one cool kid luke tilden

kelsey

Posted 5/26/2007 8:27 PM by keep_it_real429 - reply


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