Eric Weiner





Eric Weiner

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FOR as long as he can remember Eric Weiner wanted to be a foreign correspondent. So he could hardly believe his good fortune when, one day in 1993, NPR dispatched him to India as the network's first full-time correspondent in that country. Weiner spent two of the best years of his life based in New Delhi, covering everything from an outbreak of bubonic plague to India's economic reforms, before moving on to other postings in Jerusalem and Tokyo.

Over the past decade, he's reported from more than 30 countries, most of them profoundly unhappy. He traveled to Iraq several times during the reign of Saddam Hussein. He was in Afghanistan in 2001, when the Taliban regime fell.

He's also served as a correspondent for NPR in Ne...more


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Average rating: 3.76 · 7,916 ratings · 1,688 reviews · 36 distinct works
The Geography of Bliss: One Gr...
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 7,276 ratings — published 2008 — 19 editions
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Man Seeks God: My Flirtations...
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 123 ratings6 editions
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Little Star (Dora the Explorer...
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2002
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STEER CLEAR OF HAUNTED HILL
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4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions
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Deadly Detention
2.5 of 5 stars 2.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
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BLACKOUT!
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1993
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Death by Chocolate
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1995
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Cliffhangers 5: Sliced!
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1996
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ENTER MAGNETO (Step Into Readi...
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Death Is Watching
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“Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.”
Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

“[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.”
Eric Weiner

“So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal and figurative, around ourselves. We move from a teeming college dorm to an apartment to a house, and if we're really wealthy, to an estate. We think we're moving up, but really we're walling off ourselves.”
Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World



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