pickRelationship Status: “It‘s complicated”— on the one hand I agree, don‘t drop bombs and stop destroying cultures. On the other hand, I disagree with the author‘s vague misogyny and eugenics. A heck of a time capsule, ironically enough, considering the subject matter.
I guess ultimately it was not dreadful and rather short. Perfect for a book club read.
1. Lost Horizon. The rest of the month was pretty lackluster.
2. The atypical storyline and the setting.
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pickJust finished. It gave me a lot to think about. One of those endings where you're not sure what will happen next but you think you probably do. LOL.
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pickI haven‘t read this for decades. It‘s amazing how much I forgot. Four strangers are escaping a civil war when their plane is high jacked. They crash land near a lamasery in the mountains of Tibet, called Shangra-La. This community is supposed to be an utopia, but one of the men continues to agitate for escape.
pickHaunting, ultra-readable classic whose post-colonial cast is part of the package. Like Random Harvest (a personal fave)--it's as much about the between-the-wars psyche (including of the young men who served) as about anything else.
so-soThe characters had interesting backstories but perhaps a prequel would help. I was expecting massive conflict to wrap up the novel but it was anticlimactic.
This is Pocket Books first paperback, see the number 1 in the upper left corner?Pocket first published this edition originally in May of 1939.My edition is a 24th printing,March 1943 .There is a buy war bonds ad in it.❤️😀
Stayed at the Shangri La Abu Dhabi, at the weekend. Love this lil personal touch in the bedside drawer.
Obviously I didn‘t forget my kindle (wouldn‘t be caught dead without it😂🤗) but if I did this would have came in handy. I will get round to reading it at some point as I downloaded it as a digital memory 😂🙌🏻👍🏻
The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!
pickWhat an engrossing read and so eloquently written! ?Hard to believe no one bat an eye for the 1933 classic until Hilton wrote his best-selling Goodbye Mr. Chips the following year. And who knew this book launched the mass-market "paperback revolution" by being the first-ever 25-cent Pocket Book? It even added a new word into our language and dictionary: Shangri-La. ??Now I must see the movie.
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so-soWhat a beautifully written book. James world just take you into whole new world of Buddhist monks and series of plot twists. Very high vocabulary but it adds tot he charm of the sentences. Kind of bit confused and dismayed by the ending, which left a bit of bad taste in mouth. Book leaves you with lots of questions in mind.
pickLost Horizon reminds me of the classic adventure novels by Kipling and Verne.
The story starts with the hijacking of a plane which is carrying 4 passengers. When the plane finally lands, the 4 strangers find themselves in a remote lamasery called Shangri La.
Shangri La is depicted as a perfect paradise...but there's a catch. The main character, Conway, is entranced by the beauty of Shangri La, but his friend Mallinson isn't as impressed.
One of my favorite books is on sale today on Amazon. Mystical, magical, and imaginative. Imagine yourself in Shangri-La!
pickDespite its popularity once upon a time, LOST HORIZON seems to have mostly faded from literary memory (except for passing references to Shangri-La), which is a shame, because it's smart, funny, full of adventure and surprisingly profound in places. Kind of the novel version of an Indiana Jones movie. Worth a read! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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#septphotochallenge - Books Set in Asia. I used to teach Asian History, so I have plenty of books set in Asia, but most of them are in my office at work! This is my only book I bought when I was in Asia, on my visit to China a few years ago. It is an illustrated copy of Lost Horizon. One of the topics I studied when I was there was the impact of the Shangri-La story on tourism. #somethingforsept @TheSpinecrackersBookClub @RealLifeReading
pickStill wonderful reading 80 years after first published.
pickReally loved this book! What an adventure! Makes me want to fly off to the Himalayas in search of Shangri-La!
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