The Geography of Bliss : One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World (Paperback)

from snash

As befits a nebulous topic like happiness, there are no definitive conclusions in this book. In the end, the author even questions whether happiness is the ultimate goal at all. The book does, however, stimulate thought. As he charges around the world trying various country's version of happiness...

from Hagelstein

Eric Weiner traveled abroad and in the U.S. to see what makes people happy, and found some surprises. It turns out that no matter where you live the things that we think will lead to happiness often don't, and some of the things we take for granted can be the source of most of our contentment. Th...

from co_coyote

The sub-title of this book is "One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World," which, combined with the banner "The New York Times Bestseller", is normally the kiss of death for a book I want to read. But it was a Christmas gift that was laying on the shelf one day when I really wanted ...

from Sovranty

The idea that a place (versus frame of mind, attitude towards the experience, culture, or degree of freedom) has a great amount of power in making one happy is an extremely appealing point of research. However, Eric Weiner was not the best one to successfully complete or convey this research. Whi...

from nbmars

Eric Weiner, a correspondent for National Public Radio, does the reading for the audio version of his book describing his yearlong quest to find the world's most blissful places. As a professed "whiner" who is possibly "addicted to being unhappy," he was looking for the secret of what makes peopl...