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    <body><![CDATA[This was part of a book recommendation swap between myself and my brother-in-law. I recommended <em>Ender's Game</em> and he recommended <em>Lost Horizon</em>. I wasn't sure at first if either of us anticipated our tastes in literature very well, but I at least read <em>Lost Horizon</em> with interest. <br/><br/>There is no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49441795">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The plane that launched a thousand derivatives...<br/><br/>Before there was the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.abc.com">ABC</a> juggernaut that is LOST, there was <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2031.James_Hilton" title="James Hilton">James Hilton</a>'s afternoon read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2978.Lost_Horizon_A_Novel" title="Lost Horizon  A Novel by James Hilton">Lost Horizon</a>. This fantastical tale, billed as the first paperback, introduced four characters, and a world audience, to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-la">Shangri-La</a>, a time capsule o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49974979">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This follows 4 people who, while trying to escape a revolution, get kidnapped and transported to Tibet. There they find themselves in a place called Shangri-La. In this place, most of the newcomers are happy, but some are not. An escape plan is hatched, and along with a girl of 20 (supposedly), they...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39300686">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book in my early teens and was entranced by it. It's odd to read it again now. It's very much a novel of its time. Shangri-la is the emotional healing place for the horrors of WW1 - but we can't stay in the dreamland, we have to return to normal life, even if we spend the rest of o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69428679">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i was unaware that this was the fist paperback ever published. carrying that into posterity, James Hilton's work is worthy of the distinction.<br/><br/>it's a simple adventure story told in an uncomplicated way that comes off as a &quot;slice of life&quot; or &quot;day in the life&quot; kind of st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74849433">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a fast paced action adventure but I've loved this book since I first read it almost 15 years ago. I can't fully explain why, but it spoke to me. I felt, and feel, a connection with the main character. I identify with him more that any character in any other book I've read. I have underlined nume...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24761826">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a beautiful book. I picked it up several years ago thinking this was one of those books you &quot;should&quot; read. I was right. I don't know why I left it on the shelf so long. <br/><br/>I can see why they used Ronald Colman in the movie - the description of Conway fits the image of him...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70670299">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love this book.  I read it as a kid in my Reader's Digest Condensed Books for Young Readers series (I still have it) and was always attracted by the illustrations.  I needed some more escape reading this fall as the presidential election was going on and this fit the bill.  A wonderful story about w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38774002">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books of all time...I first read it when I was a teenager, but I reread it every few years.  In fact, I'm about due for another reading of it.  It's the classic story of Shangri-La--a must read for people who love great fiction that's referenced often in daily life.  There...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7583984">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book takes place in a bar, where former classmates from Oxford reminisce about their friend Glory Conway and how he was intelligent and a superb athlete in college.One of the classmates says that Conway disappeared with three others in an airplane that was evacuating them from the war in Baskul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57868178">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was assigned this book in 11th grade in Ms. Smith’s AP English.  I liked it then especially in comparison to the other drudgery she assigned.  A strangely absorbing and fascinating story of a lost Englishman, it is a story within a story -- an adventure in time and space, in the course of which ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63221604">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Journey to the mythic city of Shangra-La. I picked this book up for a number of reasons: Shangra-La, printed in the 1930's, and the idea of it being a pulp novel. Though a few of these expectation didn't pan out, I still have to say the the book was an enjoyable read. It is a standard utopia story, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56121841">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Can't say I was totally impressed with this one. The same teacher who assigned <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The Martian Chronicles" title="The Martian Chronicles">The Martian Chronicles</a> taught us about Shangri-La. He spoiled the ending for us, but that only made me want to read the book. 8 years later I did, and I have to say it was not what I had always hoped. It was a neat story,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38642280">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book for those looking for an easy read adventure.           <br/><br/>This book had me from the beginning because of the mystery surrounding the disappearance of a plane carry four unique characters.    As the story progressed it was interesting to see each character evolve to there situati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61092082">more...</a>]]></body>
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