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Eat, Pray, Love |  | Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin
Category: eBooks
This item is no longer available
Rating:  2387 reviews
Sales Rank: 16
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.4
ASIN: B000PDYVVG
Publication Date: February 1, 2007
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Product Description
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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 Great September 3, 2010
Ann Sanford
Great - the book is what I thought it would be. Shipping was on time and got here in perfect shape. Thanks - A+
 Snore, Snore, Snore September 3, 2010
alp1021
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I cannot understand why people like this boooooooring book. I painfully made it through Italy and started India...that's when I couldn't take it anymore and felt that stapling my hand to the wall would be far more interesting than continuing with this woman who never stops talking about the damn bathroom floor...save yourself and save your money! I hope I can get a few bucks for it at the used bookstore especially since I only read a portion. Seriously this woman quit her marriage for some reason that she won't share....umm ok isn't that part of what sent her out on this journey that resulted in an overly hyped up, waste of paper, diary of a cry baby? She roamed around Italy eating and talking a bunch of nonsense meanwhile not having to worry about money thanks to her book advance. What idiot publisher did that! I agree with many of the other reviews.....she is a spoiled lame. I will not even bother seeing the movie ugg!
Not worth the hype September 2, 2010
AZMom
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I wanted to like this book. Everyone I knew loved it and said I had to read this book. I didn't make it past Italy. I was disappointed that she was paid to take this trip (book advance) and wondered how much of it was manufactured for the book. Also, to me, her tone seemed haughty and self-important.
Poor little Rich girl September 2, 2010
Janet M. Perry
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am trying to get through this "book" because it is an assignment. It is slow, boring and depressing. She quits her job and dashes around the globe to find herself. Rich family and friends meet her in distant countries as she travels. Can you say spoiled brat with rich rich rich friends and family. She had no worries she just wanted to get out of her marriage and flit around with no responsibilities and no boundries. She is shallow and lacks any admirable characteristics.
I am glad I was able to get this book on Amazon.com for pennies. It will not be too much of a loss when I throw it in the trash.
Skip this Smug Self-Exploration September 1, 2010
P. Carlsen
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I will preface this review with the fact that I didn't actually finish the book. I couldn't. I stopped somewhere in Italy. I think I am supposed to like the main character - and apparently many people did - but by page 2 I knew I didn't. She comes across extremely smug and self-righeous. The problems are two-fold: 1) she doesn't explain at all why she's so unhappy. And she actually says she's too enlightened now to hurt anyone so won't provide any details. Well, if I don't understand who she is and why she started her crazy journey, how can I possibly empathize and so like her? The bottom line is that I absolutely cannot relate to this woman. And because we are only provided surface glimpses she comes across extremely smug, self-absorbed and generally unlikeable. 2) This book I believe was written so others could appreciate and perhaps take lessons from her spiritual and self-discovery journey. The fact that she does this by getting a huge book advance and runs away for a year traveling the world is absurd. I almost want to say, "how dare you?" If you write a book about spiritual self-discovery and do not provide any real insight into who you are and do so in a manner in which no one else could do this - you are going to come across narcissistic and self-righteous - most certainly not enlightened. Skip this self-absorbed tale.
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