Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by: Elizabeth Gilbert
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This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls ???Anne Lamott???s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister???) is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.
This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls ???Anne Lamott???s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister???) is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.
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- I...I...I...
This is the first book I have reviewed without finishing the book...but I could not.No wonder the author only went to countries that began with the letter 'I', because that is exactly what this book is about - I.It is just such a selfish, self indulgent exploration.The 4 or more starred reviews must be from very young women whom are still in that phase of their lives.I suggest reading Three Cups of Tea, Swan House, What is the What -a book where the protagonist has something to GIVE to ... Read More
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- Skip the Book
This book was a huge disappointment.I could not finish it.Skip the book and watch her [...] instead.She's a MUCH better speaker.I could never recommend this book as it doesn't deliver.Self-absorbed ramblings that only end up irritating the reader as you could be reading something else!
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- fourth book purchased
The spirit of this book is so easy profound and easy to digest. Get it.
Rating: - Why was this on the NYT best seller list?
I had a hard time getting through this book.The author is pretentious, whiney and very self-absorbed.She whines about her divorce, but it seems like she was the one who just up and left and took up with another man.Her year of travel seems less of discovering herself and all about a Year of Me.She goes to at least two places - India and Bali - with much poverty and never seems to note it or want to be involved.It would be nice if we could all just travel for a year after a divorce to find ... Read More
Rating: - only those who are young/still inexperienced might appreciate this book...
I got this book as a birthday present.
I struggled so much to finish this book in which I found only a couple of interesting sentences... one was something like "better to live your own destiny imperfectly than living the imitation of somebody else's life".
I think the author actually belong to the latter.
Her decision to get divorced/not wanting a child should be respected and that is fine and brave but what she gets fulfilled with instead is such a shallow act of wanna-bes after ... Read More
- I...I...I...This is the first book I have reviewed without finishing the book...but I could not.No wonder the author only went to countries that began with the letter 'I', because that is exactly what this book is about - I.It is just such a selfish, self indulgent exploration.The 4 or more starred reviews must be from very young women whom are still in that phase of their lives.I suggest reading Three Cups of Tea, Swan House, What is the What -a book where the protagonist has something to GIVE to ... Read More
- Skip the BookThis book was a huge disappointment.I could not finish it.Skip the book and watch her [...] instead.She's a MUCH better speaker.I could never recommend this book as it doesn't deliver.Self-absorbed ramblings that only end up irritating the reader as you could be reading something else!
- fourth book purchasedThe spirit of this book is so easy profound and easy to digest. Get it.
- Why was this on the NYT best seller list?I had a hard time getting through this book.The author is pretentious, whiney and very self-absorbed.She whines about her divorce, but it seems like she was the one who just up and left and took up with another man.Her year of travel seems less of discovering herself and all about a Year of Me.She goes to at least two places - India and Bali - with much poverty and never seems to note it or want to be involved.It would be nice if we could all just travel for a year after a divorce to find ... Read More
- only those who are young/still inexperienced might appreciate this book...I got this book as a birthday present.
I struggled so much to finish this book in which I found only a couple of interesting sentences... one was something like "better to live your own destiny imperfectly than living the imitation of somebody else's life".
I think the author actually belong to the latter.
Her decision to get divorced/not wanting a child should be respected and that is fine and brave but what she gets fulfilled with instead is such a shallow act of wanna-bes after ... Read More
