Saturday, May 7, 2016

Lost Horizon by James Hilton

Set in the early 1930's, four people are lost in the Tibetan Mountains.  They are found by a group who live in a lamasery and are taken there to recover and perhaps not to return home again.

Three men and one woman have their lives changed drastically when their plane crashes in the mountains.  They are found by a group from a monastery who live in a place called Shangri-La.  After traveling through snowy storms, up mountain crevices, they end at a place where flowers grow, there is no crime, there is life longevity and everything is beautiful and peaceful and serene.  Would you want to go back to a civilization at the brink of war?

I enjoyed the movie just as well as the book even though they had different endings and some minor character additions.


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