Audiobook5 hours
Hector and the Secrets of Love
Written by Francois Lelord
Narrated by James Clamp
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
One of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies has employed Hector to track down their brilliant scientist, Professor Cormorant, who has disappeared abroad with the secret of a modern-day love potion. Leaving behind his troubled relationship with girlfriend Clara, Hector's adventure takes him to the Far East and into the arms of beautiful Vayla, forcing our hero to think deeply about what love really is/means.In his follow-up to the multi-million-selling Hector and the Search for Happiness, acclaimed writer and psychiatrist, François Lelord, offers us a new fable filled with thoughtful insights into the very human desire to find and keep love.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHighbridge Company
TranslatorLorenza Garcia
Release dateMay 24, 2011
ISBN9781611742664
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Reviews for Hector and the Secrets of Love
Rating: 3.4999999314285715 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In this book Hector the main character is sent by a large pharmaceutical company to find Professor Cormorant who has absconded with a promising love potion. While searching high and low around the world Hector contemplates the components of love and the effect these have not only on the general public but on his own relationships.He discovers some universal truths about life and love along the way, mostly that love is complicated but essential. The simple tone of the work is refreshing and delightful. It's well observed, thoughtful and highly entertaining.Thanks to Netgalley and Gallic Books for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Too didactic. Didn't finish.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Hector returns in his second quest for knowledge; this time looking for the secrets of love. I really enjoy the simple storytelling and, especially, the silly situations that Hector finds himself in which ultimately leading to his discoveries. I did not however enjoy it as an audiobook. I'm not sure what was wrong, but towards the end of the final CD it kept skipping (there was no visible dust or scratch on the CD), and I missed some of the climax of the story. Because these books tend to be smaller and more manageable anyway I'd definitely recommend it in print rather than audio.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I found this to be an annoyingly trite novel about a psychiatrist and his love problems. The tidbits of wisdom that the psychiatrist (named Hector) distills for the reader are nothing but cliches, and I did not find his story at all compelling.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hector is a psychiatrist who has embarked on an adventure to find the answers to the mysterious alchemy of love. He is on the trail to find a missing leading scientist that has discovered a 'love potion' that attracts two people, or animals for that matter, to each other. This is a greatly sought after concoction that others are in as much in a hurry to find as Hector is in a hurry to find the missing professor. During his search he is introduced to a beautiful local girl who after taking the love serum he falls instantly in love with. But what does this mean for his long time girlfriend Clara back home? This tale is a actually a deep and funny look at the science of love and the components of heartache and all those wiggly emotions we feel when we 'fall' in love. Hector loves to take notes (seedlings) and make keen observations - some of them are just hilarious. Quite enjoyable to listen to. I received this book in Audio Format from Librarything.com
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hector, the loveable and ever curious French psychiatrist, is on a new mission. He has been asked to find a research scientist who has disappeared of his own volition. He's working on a drug that would help to make love more permanent--a very valuable drug indeed. But it seems he took a bit of the drug himself and has run off with one of his research assistants. Hector does find the rather eccentric gentleman, and gets dosed with the drug himself at a time when he and his beloved Clara are not doing so well. The whole experience, and his travels with the scientist, get him to thinking about love and writing one of his famous lists, this time calling his thoughts "seedlings" because each is "a tiny thought, like a seedling that has just sprouted and nobody knows what it will be yet." As things go along, he also begins an essay on the components of heartache, since that often comes round with love. Once again, Hector in the main character in book that has tremendous depth belied by the simplistic and understated writing style of Lelord. It is a delight to read.