Lost Horizon

Good read. People are kidnapped to help populate a secret community in the Himalayas. Sounds like something [b:The Celestine Prophecy 13103 The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1) James Redfield https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1166542346l/13103.SX50.jpg 2603195] might have been influenced by.

I don't know how it took me until now to read this wonderful novel, and then only because I acquired an audiobook version of it (and found a paperback copy in my local library). Having been to Tibet and spent a little time in the Himalayas, I was enchanted by this story of a British consul who, along with 3 other foreigners, is skyjacked by a Tibetan pilot and taken to a remote valley and the lamasery called Shangri-la. The framing of the tale and the tale itself is brilliant.

Was engaging. But maybe should have been only 3 stars. Kind of a Wizard of Oz ending where we learn the omniscient narrator was unreliable.