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I loved reading this book. My husband and I visited Bhutan 20 years ago and were fascinated by the country. This book gives you a glimpse of how modern technology such as television, radio and outside influences are changing the country. You decide if it has been positive or negative!!!!

I did not think I would enjoy this book a great deal, but must say that I have. Lisa Napoli is simply talking to you as she relates her story. I so appreciated her insight and growth, which she states so well and clearly. Her ability in giving backgrounds to people and happenings made the reader understand Bhutan, its people and the affect this place had on Lisa. This would be a good book for book clubs.

People undergo changes all the time. Using a physical location to map and understand a midlife crisis was clever. The book provided insight into Bhutan - the culture and the people there. The differences between all the worlds (personal and political) was a comforting read.

What a great idea this book's premise spins...skilled/experienced radio correspondent prime & eager to live a more rewarding and meaningful life opts to move to the kingdom of happiness (Bhutan) to offer her services in establishing Radio Kuzoo. Scans great. Actual execution...not as jazzy. I liked the author's writing style but there wasn't much depth or, ironically, description of personal growth. What's more, the cultural commentary felt like a series of asides. I wanted more. I expected more. Still, it was a pleasant read. Just not as engaging as I had hoped.

One of the few books that had me nodding and smiling in agreement with the author as I read along. I was so "in sync" with the feelings and emotions Ms. Napoli used to describe her life at the mid-career point that I felt validated that I wasn't the only one who was experiencing the world the way I do. This sense of identification with an author happens very rarely for me so I really enjoyed the book. Highly recommended.

The first part of the book I really couldn't tell if this story was fiction, non-fiction or a biography. True the author really didn't have any idea what she had talked herself into. Yet after spending a year in the "happiest place on earth", Bhutan, she was able to step out of her stupor and write with sense of purpose about the things she had observed and participated in. The last third of the book lends itself to freeing the author from bad memories of earlier life in the USA. The many changes in this small country, with local interaction make the last part extremely interesting.

I sat down many times to read this but could not get into it. Sorry

If you are looking for another Eat, Pray, Love, this book is not it. For me, that was a major plus. While it seems to be billed as another “travel to find myself” book, I found that where it was its most interesting was the look it gave us at modern Bhutanese life (and it dragged a little when the author focused on her own relationships with other westerners because I didn’t care about that). But I learned a lot about Bhutan, and the author seems to have begun her contacts with Bhutan and the Bhutanese people right at the point where Bhutan is in a transition period between keeping itself almost completely isolated from the modern world, and allowing the modern world in. And it seems pretty clear that the modern world is going to rapidly run roughshod over their old way of life. I found that aspect to be fascinating, and it left me with a lot of food for thought – it seems pretty poignant that their old ways will disappear, but why shouldn’t they have all of the benefits of modern technology and communication that we have? But does that make people happier? But even if it doesn’t, would it have been acceptable for their government to continue to keep them isolated? I finished it several days ago, and I still find myself thinking about it.