The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Edition: Reprint
- Author: Eric Weiner
- Publisher: Twelve
- Release Date: January 2009
- ISBN-10: 044669889X
- ISBN-13: 9780446698894
- List Price: $13.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryPart foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? With engaging wit and surprising insights, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions. (2007) |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Entertaining and cute
Rating:
The book was a quick, entertaining read filled with many small but rather intriguing facts. I had not even finished the book and I was using many different passages in everyday conversation. It is not life changing, nor does it offer any clear cut answers, but I am glad I read it. I would easily count this among my favorite non-fiction books.
The Geography of Bliss
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Read for a book club, the over-all opinion was that it was a good read but hard to classify. Not a self-help book, not a travelogue not sure what it is but the author makes some interesting points. I would recommend this to any reading group as a fun to read/discuss book.
Is Happiness an Inside Job?
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Eric Weiner has managed to weave a travelogue, an academic review of serious scientific studies about happiness and his own tales of woe into a delightful and entertaining book. I highly recommend this book. It begs the question - is happiness an inside job?
Truly worth the read!!
Fantastic insight into people and places!
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This book is fantastic! I'm usually a very quick reader and I found myself perusing very slowly through this book to make sure I didn't miss anything.
Good condition - delivery way too long
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This book was in great condition and also a wonderful read.
I requested a quick delivery and it still took over
a week to receive. Way too long for the extra money I
had to pay.
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