title: Hector and the Search for Happiness
author: Francois Lelord
description: This trite debut follows a psychiatrist named Hector as he attempts to understand "what made people happy." At a crossroads professionally and personally, Hector resolves to take a trip, first landing in China, where he reconnects with an old friend and encounters Ying Li, with whom he spends a night. He also meets an old monk who offers a bit of happiness-related wisdom. Having suffered disappointment in his relations with Ying Li, Hector next heads to Africa, where he makes the acquaintance of a drug lord with a depressed wife, is kidnapped, and learns that "it's harder to be happy in a country run by bad people." Next up is the "big country where there were more psychiatrists than anywhere else in the world" and a meeting with a professor of "Happiness Studies." Lelord, a psychiatrist, writes in the simple prose you'd find in a children's book, and this stylistic choice quickly becomes irredeemably grating. Though the book is an international bestseller, it is far less a novel than a maudlin self-help guide that substitutes pat aphorisms for development. <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Happiness for Hermes
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Olympians Ascending, Volume 2
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Sotia Lazu
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Acelette Press, 2020.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are
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  HAPPINESS FOR HERMES
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **First edition. February 8, 2020.**
  
  
  Copyright (C) 2020 Sotia Lazu.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Written by Sotia Lazu.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Table of Contents
  
  
  [Title Page](part0000.xhtml)
  
  
  [Copyright Page](part0001.xhtml)
  
  
  [Prologue - Hermes](part0003.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter One - Hermes](part0004.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter Two - Hermes](part0005.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter Three - Joy](part0006.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter Four - Hermes](part0007.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter Five - Joy](part0008.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter Six - Hermes](part0009.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter Seven - Joy](part0010.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter Eight - Hermes](part0011.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter Nine - Joy](part0012.xhtml)
  
  
  [Chapter Ten - Hermes](part0013.xhtml)
  
  