Uncover Hector Finds Time Sketched By François Lelord Categorized In Printable Format

picked out this book randomly when I was in Halifax, NS last summer, The subject matter of time interested me so I decided to give this book a go, At first, I thought it might be a children's book because of the cover illustration but it isn't at all.
Little did I know it is part of a series but this book can be read separately, I honestly have nothing negative to say about this book, Hector is a youngish psychiatrist who embarks on an adventure to better understand the passage of time, and thus the meaning it brings to life.
Along the way, we meet a medley of his patients and people who marked him,
It's a very fast read but the writing style is really pleasant, almost childlike without being annoying, This book has help myself have a better grasp of time and how it affects our lives,
I loved it so much I would consider reading other stories on Hector's adventures, Auch in diesem Buch geht Hector wieder auf die Reise, Diesmal nicht auf der Suche nach dem Glück oder der Liebe, sondern nach der Zeit, Ihm fällt auf, dass viele seiner Patienten über entweder mangelnde Zeit klagen oder über Langeweile, Manche möchten unbedingt schon älter sein und manche trauern ihren jüngeren Jahren nach, Verbindend ist, dass die meisten nicht glücklich darüber sind, wie sich die Zeit in ihrem Leben ausdrückt.
Und so beginnt Hector Ideen von Zeitetüden festzuhalten, mit Hilfe derer er seinen Patienten Hilfestellungen geben möchte, um über die Zeit in ihrem Leben nachzudenken.


Er trifft auf seinen Reisen einige Bekannte, wie in China auf Ying Lee, die er auf seiner Suche nach dem Glück kennengelernt hatte.
Mit von der Partie ist auch sein alter Freund Eduardo, den er diesmal am Südpol besucht und er versucht den weisen Mönch wiederzufinden, von dem er sich kluge Einsichten erhofft und der wie vom Erdboden verschwunden scheint.


Daneben schlägt er sich selbst noch mit so existenziellen Fragen herum, ob er denn nun seine Clara ehelichen sollte oder nicht.
Ob es dafür überhaupt den richtigen Zeitpunkt gebe oder ob er nicht schon verbei wäre,

All das webt Francoise Lelord zu einem wunderbaren Portrait der darin vorkommenden Menschen zusammen, Sprachlich auf seine unnachahmliche Art und Weise mit Metaphern und köstlichen Vergleichen, die einem vieles komplizierte auf einmal ganz deutlich begreifbar machen.
Hector gehört zu den Psychiatern, denen man in seinem eigenen Leben gern begegnen möchte, Der einen mit Zuhören und klugen Fragen dazu bringt, sich in seinem Leben neu zurechtzufinden, Z. B. mit der Zeitetüde: 'Hören Sie Musik und sagen Sie sich dabei, sie sei ein Sinnbild für die Zeit.
Welche Melodie hat Ihr Leben' Interesting when a Young Adult SciFi Novel brings in actually Physics Principles into the discussion of TIME, and the search thereof!!! The storyline was intriguing because of the science universe it was in, and.
. . was such a happy ending!!!! I really liked this book, It is written almost like a children's book, in a very simple style, but the subject matter, time and infidelity are not for children.
The author says he was inspired by Voltaire's Candide, and Hector, like Candide, moves from country to country, The style of this book is also very similar to Candide, Hector is in search of the truth about time, and explores all the thinking, in science, philosophy, religion and poetry in various settings.
It started out as a fourstar book, but dropped down to three in the last third to half, as it began to drag.
Still, I did enjoy it, found it thoughtprovoking, and will look for others by this author, My favourite aspect of the book was the light, dry humour, Excellent conclusion to the Hector series, More philosophical, but doesn't leave you up in the air, I like this series as Hector is always providing insights for the various topics that he ventures on : This is an alternate cover edition for sitelink

Being up against the clock was a real problem for so many people, thought Hector.
What could he possibly do to help them

First he tackled happiness, Then he took on love, And now Hector, our endearing young French psychiatrist, confronts the persistent march of time,

His patients lament that there is not enough time in the day, Or they feel that life is passing them by, And in one case, a young boy turns the problem on its head: Hes impatient to grow up! Hector himself is increasingly aware of time: He doesnt feel quite so young anymore, and the clock is ticking on his relationship with his beloved Clara.


So as time flies, so does our wise and winsome hero in his latest adventure, traveling around the world to understand the past, the future, and how best to enjoy the present.
I really liked this series, This one felt a bit different like it was trying too hard but it had been quite a while since the last book in the series, these are hard to get your hands on!!! Glad I read it, a simple afternoon read and I liked catching up with Hector who has been a great character This is the third in the originally in French, 'Hector' series by François Lelord in which the doctor looks into the nature of time.
The idea was appealing, but its execution did little for me maybe it got lost in translationout of
Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.
If you want existential questions about time and life this book is for you! Short chapters do not equal quick reads, thats for sure.
I thoroughly enjoyed the first of Hector series Hector and the Search for Happiness, But this one I'm not so sure.

Yes, it's enjoyable in some parts, a little childlike, but, . . it's still just okay. It's almost like I'm going round and round in circles trying to "find time", And then there were some complicated equations about defining time in the most scientific way ever and I get lost.


Some of his Time Exercises are meaningful, and got me thinking real hard about Time, While some I let pass because I have no idea what he's rattling on about,

One of my favourite Time Exercises has to be Time Exercise No,: Whenever you meet an elderly person, always imagine what they were like when they were young, : Helps when I'm at work,


Pretty disappointed with myself when I reached the end of the book and it says:

"But if you've read this book properly, you'll already have guessed.
"

GUESSED WHAT! dying of curiosity here



Let me end this with a little conclusion of my own:

Time is past, present and future altogether.
Time is eternity.

Lol.

'Music is a very good way of thinking about time, A note only moves you because you remember the one before, and you're waiting for the next, . . Each one only means something wrapped in a bit of the past and the future, '

Quaint little story that made for a light entertaining read, peppered with little philosophical thoughts and insights on the nature of time and how our perception of it shapes our lives.

I enjoyed attempting Hector's 'Time Exercises', and intend to go back and think about a few of them in more detail.
. . But safe to say I think I'll be keeping an eye out for more of Hector's adventures in the future or the present! Zwar kommt dieser Teil von Hectors Abenteuern nicht an das Original "Hectors Reise oder die Suche nach dem Glück" heran, allerdings liest man auch hier gerne Seite für Seite, um mehr über Hectors psychologischen und philosophischen Ausführungen zu erfahren.
Diese waren für mich persönlich nicht ganz so ergiebig wie erhofft, aber dennoch denke ich, dass es sich auf jeden Fall lohnen kann, diese Lektüre zu lesen.
Life changing The early parts of the book had be guessing that is this book almost the same as Mitch Albom's Timekeeper book but it isn't since this book questions more on our perception on time.


I really enjoyed reading theother Hector books but this one was a little dull for me since the plot is more on the question of Hector and his age from my POV and I didn't find it exciting as much as the other series.


However the good thing about this book is that it has a few philosophy in it and I always like any book with philosophy in it haha.
I lost interest in this audiobook, Its the third book in the Hector series, Sadly, they were less interesting as the series went on,

Alas, this time Hector is on the search for time, Kids want to speed it up, old folks want to slow it down, How do you even measure it This was the first of the Hector books, I picked it up because I needed a light and breezy read,

I don't think one needs to be steeped in Freud to see that our friend Hector isn't really searching for the meaning of life or time or any other intellectual mumbojumbo.
It often seems that Hector is a middleaged man searching for py or to use Hector's euphemism, "mischief", Like many middleaged men who love the bachelor life, he's terrified of settling down, having his roaming freedom's stripped, and being limited to the same "mischief" every day.
Perhaps Hector is searching for the meaning of time, but I think what he's really looking for is a way to avoid spiritual death.
I think this book has more in common with the HBO series "Entourage" then it does with "Sophie's World",

So, why theinstead ofor, I suppose I love the idea of a YA book written for middleaged adult men, I don't think there is much depth to the book, but there certainly is some depth to the book, It is possible to take some deeper meaning from the book if you are not too wellread or simply don't want to concentrate that hard.
I think it's the perfect book for a longhour plane ride, where you're too miserable to concentrate on a difficult book, and you need just enough stimulation to get you through the flight.
I can imagine kicking outpage chapters while drinking minivodkas and devouring little peanut packets,

I probably won't read another Hector book, . . but I might write something like this at some point, I think it would only take me about a month or two of writing if I did apage chapter a day.
That's a pretty cool way to write a book, Could I see myself writing something shallow but useful Of course! The idea of a very full life is dangerous.
Because you can't ever fill it as much as you'd like to, And you also fill it with mistakes, inevitably, What counts is sometimes feeling your life is full, Or, rather, living some moments to the full,
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Thankfully this final installment of the Hector's Journey series has ditched the unnecessary soapopera sleaziness that made thend installment sitelinkHector and the Secrets of Love so unbearable.
In fact this final installment restores back ths charm of the first book sitelinkHector and the Search for Happiness, further improving on that, by muting down the selfhelp element of the narrative, and ramping up the philosophical introductions similar to sitelinkSophie's World.
A very fulfilling conclusion to the series, I'm not sure why, but the charm of the writtenforchildren style of the first book is losing its lustre in this one.
Or maybe it was just too jarring for me to go from N, K. Jemison to a

book like this In any case, I got about twothirds of the way through before realizing I wasn't really enjoying it and was wistfully eyeing my pile of toread books.
. . Nicht mein Buch François Lelord, bornJunein Paris is a French psychiatrist and author, He studied medicine and psychology, After getting his doctoral degree in, he was a post doctorate researcher with Robert Liberman at the University of California UCLA, Los Angeles.
He then worked as an attending physician at Hôpital Necker which is affiliated with Descartes University in Paris for two years.
Inhe opened up his own practice which he closed down into work as an advisor on stress and job satisfaction for several companies.
Having co written various self help books, he was commissioned to produce another but found himself instead writing a novel, Hector and the Search for Happiness, the first in a series of adventures featuring François Lelord, bornJunein Paris is a French psychiatrist and author.
He studied medicine and psychology, After getting his doctoral degree in, he was a post doctorate researcher with Robert Liberman at the University of California UCLA, Los Angeles.
He then worked as an attending physician at Hôpital Necker which is affiliated with Descartes University in Paris for two years.
Inhe opened up his own practice which he closed down into work as an advisor on stress and job satisfaction for several companies.
Having co written various self help books, he was commissioned to produce another but found himself instead writing a novel, Hector and the Search for Happiness, the first in a series of adventures featuring a psychiatrist protagonist.
In, Lelord went to work for an NGO in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, He now lives in Thailand with his wife and son, The film of Hector and the Search for Happiness is released in UK cinemas in August, starring Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike.
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