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2. Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff

Reply to clyrc (Original post)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 09:46 AM

Dec 2011

Mitchell Zuckoff’s “Lost in Shangri-La” delivers a feast of failures — of planning, of technology, of communication — that are resolved in a truly incredible adventure. Truly incredible? A cliché, yes, but Zuckoff’s tale is something a drunk stitches together from forgotten B movies and daydreams while clutching the bar. Zuckoff is no fabulist, though, and in this brisk book he narrates the tense yet peaceful five weeks during 1945 that three plane crash survivors spent immersed “in a world that time didn’t forget. Time never knew it existed.” Even at the level of exposition, the book is breathless.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/books/review/book-review-lost-in-shangri-la-by-mitchell-zuckoff.html

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Favorite non-fiction you've read this year? [View all] clyrc Dec 2011 OP

clyrc, thanks for the rec of this book: Went & bought it for my kindle. Also, Happy Holidays. EV_Ares Dec 2011 #1

Happy holidays to you, too clyrc Dec 2011 #5

Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff pokerfan Dec 2011 #2

Looks like something I would love to read clyrc Dec 2011 #6

I'm currently in the middle of the Steve Jobs bio av8rdave Dec 2011 #3

I keep telling myself to stop pushing this book, clyrc Dec 2011 #7

Am in the final third of the Jobs bio and have the opposite opinion! Merlot Dec 2011 #9

Twain's autobiography lazarus Dec 2011 #4

I just started reading Twain's autobiography clyrc Dec 2011 #8

The book I'm reading now, "American Nations". Odin2005 Dec 2011 #10

Probably Mark Twains autobiography JitterbugPerfume Dec 2011 #11

I keep track of the books I read online clyrc Dec 2011 #13

that is a good idea JitterbugPerfume Dec 2011 #16

Good place to do that at: Neoma Dec 2011 #20

Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test and Nicholas Carr's The Shallows salvorhardin Dec 2011 #12

The occult one sounds particularly interesting clyrc Dec 2011 #14

I really enjoyed Occult America salvorhardin Dec 2011 #15

It's an oldie MountainLaurel Dec 2011 #17

"Life" by Keith Richards Seedersandleechers Dec 2011 #18

'Just Kids' was wonderful. If you're a boomer, or love NYC, it's a winner. LuckyLib Jan 2012 #24

The Atlantic, by Simon Winchester Loge23 Dec 2011 #19

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Manifestor_of_Light Dec 2011 #21

I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World Z_I_Peevey Dec 2011 #22

I just finished Hitchen's last book of essays. bemildred Dec 2011 #23

"The Second Sex" -- Simone De Beauvoir. nt bemildred Jan 2012 #25