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    <body><![CDATA[I will admit that I was initially put off by the title of NPR correspondent Eric Weiner’s engaging, highly readable travelogue, The Geography of Bliss. That conjunction of the global and the delightful conjured visions of a frequently flying chick lit heroine named, without irony – you guessed i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18206890">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a late entry in the glut of “science of happiness” books that peaked a couple of years ago. The best among those books was Daniel Gilbert’s “Stumbling on Happiness” and, while this book is not without a certain charm of its own, it poses no serious threat to Gilbert’s supremacy. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46226224">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very interesting book.  It's about happiness, a subject that I never realized I thought about so much.  Most of my thinking is subconscious, but throughout this book I kept questioning myself and trying to decide if I agreed with most of the major ideas.  I did.  Here's a few of the highl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23302809">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved his writing style - made me want to get on a plane! <br/><br/>&quot;...as Henry Miller said, 'One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.'&quot; (4)<br/><br/>&quot;The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16225948">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I laughed my way--out loud--through most of this book.  It was clever, very funny, and totally enjoyable.  It's written by an NPR correspondent who travels the globe searching for the place, or source, of happiness.  What makes us happy, and what doesn't make us happy?  It was insightful and hilario...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15358940">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The subtitle of this book is <em>One Man's Search for the Happiest Places in the World</em>, and I am going to cut to the chase and discuss his conclusions. You're going to want to read the book anyway, to figure out how it can be true that a very unlikely country comes in first in the happiness lottery. But...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76923274">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I loved American journalist Eric Weiner's dry humor as he describes his recent romp around the world researching different societies and their philosophies on happiness.   During his travels to the Netherlands, Switzerland, Bhutan, Quatar (Persian Gulf), Iceland, Moldova, Thailand, India, Great Bri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46065536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I want to be Eric Weiner and travel the world and talk to people and learn about happiness and learn about culture (and lack there of) and learn about ... everything. <br/>I don't want this book to end, I love it so much.  And that's saying something, considering it's nonfiction.<br/>-------...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39940358">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a gem of spiritual/travel book that informs while keeping us smiling. Weiner seems to cover all aspects of the happiness question including even those that are at the other end of the spectrum (no, not Iraq). Although his tone is comfortably conversational, there is lots to sink your teeth i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25949080">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eric Weiner’s book <em>The Geography of Bliss</em> addresses a question that has been uppermost in my mind for many months.  Can geography influence one’s level of happiness?<br/><br/>Although the premise of Weiner’s book, studying the influence of geography on happiness, sounds scientific, <em>Bliss</em> is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15108088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed &quot;The Geography of Bliss&quot; by Eric Weiner.  In the book Weiner, an NPR correspondent, travels across the world to understand why people are happy or unhappy.  In the process he ponders on his own happiness or lack thereof.  You will do the same when you read it.<br/><br/>F...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13035982">more...</a>]]></body>
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