Lost Horizon

"Lost Horizon" by James Hilton is a remarkable and intriguing novel. It seems as though the very place called "Shangri-La" has been invented in this novel before it has become synonymous with the ever-lasting relaxation the major luxury resort chain offers in various parts of the world. One would be very hard pressed not to try and think more about this wonderful place after reading this novel. Even though the setting of the novel is in the early 30's - the reading offers a narrative which compels the reader in any age to desire - to find a place of ever-lasting youth and long death-defying life.

Who wouldn't want to live in such a place? If indeed such a place exists is for user's imagination to comprehend or possibly try and set out to find such a place - which I think had been already done by thousand of people (I guess by the people after this novel is published) - the underlying narrative in the novel itself is very much a self contemplation of oneself.

After reading the novel, it would be probably hard for any one not to think vicariously. What does a place like Shangri-La means to you? Would you like to be in such a place at all? What is your personal Shangri-La? Are you willing to spend such a long time in your Shangri-La and be bound there and die there whenever the time comes?