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 Title............: The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
 Author...........: Eric Weiner
 Read By..........: Eric Weiner
 Genre............: Nonfiction
 Publisher........: Hachette Audio; Unabridged edition (January 5, 2009)
 Language.........: English

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From The Washington Post



Reviewed by Daniel Gilbert



In the last two decades, psychologists and economists have learned a lot about happiness, including who's happy and who
isn't. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren't, and Americans are somewhere in between. Eric Weiner -- a peripatetic
journalist and self-proclaimed grump -- wanted to know why. So with science as his compass, he spent a year visiting the
world's most and least happy places, and the result is a charming, funny and illuminating travelogue called The
Geography of Bliss.



From the Persian Gulf to the Arctic Circle, Weiner discovers that happiness blooms where we least expect it. Who knew
that the long, dark Icelandic winter gives rise to a magical, communal culture that has done away with envy and
sobriety? Or that the Thais so prize "fun" that their government has created a Gross Domestic Happiness Index
to ensure they get enough of it? Or that Moldovans are miserable because they "derive more pleasure from their
neighbor's failure than their own success"? Or that the wealthy citizens of Qatar lead pampered, joyless lives in a
"gilded sandbox" while the poor citizens of Bhutan are cheerfully obsessed with archery tournaments, penis
statues and feeding marijuana to their fat (and presumably happy) pigs?



But Weiner does more than report on the lifestyles of the delighted and despondent. He participates -- meditating in
Bangalore, visiting strip clubs in Bangkok and drinking himself into a stupor in Reykjavik. These cultural forays are
entertaining, but the real focus of his story is on the people he meets in cafés and on buses, the people who
rent him rooms and give him directions, the people whose conversations, confessions and silences reveal the deep truths
about their lands and lives.



Weiner asks an Icelander whether he believes in elves, and the man replies, "I don't know if I believe in them, but
other people do and my life is richer for it," leading Weiner to conclude that Icelanders "occupy the space
that exists between not believing and not not believing. It is valuable real estate." He meets a widower in Slough
-- a small town outside London with little to recommend it -- who explains that he's thought about moving away but that
in the end "you come home because this is where you live." Weiner realizes that when our relationships end,
"the place is all that remains, and to leave would feel like a betrayal. . . . He doesn't love Slough, but he loved
his wife, loved her here, in this much-maligned Berkshire town, so here he stays." Memory, like bliss, seems to
have its own address.



Weiner has studied the scientific literature on happiness, too, and weaves it into his narrative, which he leavens with
a steady stream of clever quips. We learn that "Bhutan has made tremendous strides in the kind of metrics that
people who use words like metrics get excited about" and that "hairpin turns, precipitous drop-offs (no
guardrails), and a driver who firmly believes in reincarnation make for a nerve-racking experience."



Weiner, a correspondent for National Public Radio, is an American who unapologetically indulges his ethnic stereotypes
("Watching Brits shed their inhibitions is like watching elephants mate. You know it happens, it must, but it's
noisy, awkward as hell and you can't help but wonder: Is this something I really need to see?"), but if you want to
wag a politically correct finger in his direction, you'll have to stop laughing first.

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