Yawn. While there are some good bits in this book it reads more like some sort of stream-of-consciousness retelling of a couple holidays paired with whatever anecdotes the author happened to remember while writing. Not my cup of tea (and actually not quite unlike Three Cups of Tea when you think abo...
I liked it okay as a travel memoir, but not as a study of happiness. For me, the problem was mostly tone--it was hard for me to get beneath the layers of snarkiness to see any kind of earnest search for happiness. Eric Weiner was prone to over-generalizations and sarcastic take-downs, which would pu...
An interesting concept around what makes people happy: Switzerland has happy folks, Moldova, well not so much. Weiner discovers that maybe it is because when life is predictable and there are societal rules to follow in your country, life is better. It makes sense. I want to know that corruption isn...
Weiner was a decent narrator and though it seemed like he found a good way to go to countries he wanted to visit (except perhaps for Moldova) - he never did go to Denmark. It was an entertaining travelogue with no particularly unexpected insights into happiness.
I'd probably give this book 3.5 stars. I really enjoyed The Geography of Bliss, especially the first half of the book. The first half had some interesting insights, profound ponderings, and neat facts/trivia about the places visited. The later parts of the book, though, seemed to lose some steam, im...
What makes you happy? Eric Weiner, a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, attempted to find out. He traveled to 10 countries of the world in search of this elusive feeling. His travelogue in pursuit of happiness answers the five critical ‘W’ questions any news story must answer? What? Wh...
Part happiness project, part travel memoir. I really liked reading about Eric's experiences and have to agree with him that Tolstoy got it all wrong - people are happy for all kinds of different reasons, and what works for some won't necessarily work for others. It's an incredibly quotable book, and...
Sort of a combination travelogue and collection of musings on happiness. It's interesting and well-written, but didn't get me too excited about the topic, the locations, or the writer.
Eric Weiner is on a mission. A lifelong reporter, used to reporting the ugly side of life: war, death, and disease, he has now turned his attention to the other side of the coin. In a word, happiness. He starts his journey at the World Happiness Database in the Dutch city, Rotterdam. From there ...
What's the chances of this - three raspberries in a row!How can the only stop in Holland be Rotterdam to give an anaylsis that the Netherlands is not where you would find bliss!Meh.
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