Hector and the Search for Lost Time

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 mumbo-jumbo. It often seems that Hector is a......more

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 child-like, 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......more

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 ih......more

In this book Hector, the psychiatrist goes off in search of an old monk he knows in order to help him understand the meaning of time. Along the way he relates some lessons he's learned. Some, which come from his patients are so funny that I laughed out loud. Patient Hubert is especially interesting......more

I'm not sure how this author's work has captured so much attention... although the subject matter is rather weighty, it reads like a bad children's chapter book (without the benefit of any discernable plot). Perhaps it was written in French and it loses everything in the translation? Or maybe I was......more