Gorgeous Destinations

Rocketman

Rocketman

Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 04/24/2007 Run time: 94 minutes Rating: Pg

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4 Stars Rocketman - Great Family Fun!
The kids really enjoyed this movie…it is funny, but maybe a little corny…It didn’t matter tho, we all were entertained by it and found it to be a great movie for the whole family!

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The Geography of Bliss One Grumps Search for the Happiest Places in the World

The Geography of Bliss One Grumps Search for the Happiest Places in the World

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author’s case, moments of “un-unhappiness.” The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? With engaging wit and surprising insights, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions. (2007)

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4 Stars Living in Bliss
I am a Mexican citizen living in Qatar, one of the countries visited by the author in the book. I bought it because I wanted to read from the perspective of others how Qatar is like.

His impressions are spot on most of the times. Among other things, he points out with accuracy the differences between casts of expats, and the quasi fantastic life Qataris live- as in lived without adherence to reality.

However, he misses to capture how generous and welcoming the culture can be. Then again, he only spends a few days in each country, and to me, this fact makes all the difference. How can you make a true assessment in such a short time?

The rest of the chapters are alright. The writing is well paced and light, which makes it the perfect book to read on a plane or a train.

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Drop Dead Gorgeous

Drop Dead Gorgeous

As tattoo artist Star begins to ink her first client on a spring Sunday morning, something goes horribly wrong with the world… Belfast’s hungover lapse into a deeper sleep than normal, their sudden deaths causing an unholy mess of crashing cars, smoldering televisions and falling aircraft. In the chaotic aftermath a group of post-apocalyptic survivors search for purpose in a devastated city. Ageing DJ Sean Magee and shifty-eyed Barry Rogan find drunken solace in a hotel bar. Ex-IRA operative Mairead Burns and RIR soldier Roy Beggs form an uneasy alliance to rebuild community life. Elsewhere, a mysterious Preacher Man lures shivering survivors out of the shadows with a promise of redemption. Choked by the smell of death, Ireland’s remaining few begin the journey toward a new life, fear and desperation giving rise to new tensions and dark old habits. But a new threat–as gorgeous as it is deadly–creeps slowly out of life’s wreckage. Fueled by feral hunger and a thirst for chaos, the corpses of the beautiful are rising…

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