Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia | 
 enlarge | Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Viking
Category: EBooks
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Rating:  1525 reviews
Sales Rank: 30
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.4
ASIN: B000PDYVVG
Publication Date: April 11, 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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 Made me reflect on my life July 3, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
EG shares her journey about the purpose of pleasure, spirituality and love in her life. This book helped me reflect on my own values. I will re-read it after enjoying the first reading so I can spend more time with the questions she raises in a most entertaining manner.
 Self-Absorbed Drivel July 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
OMG .. what self-absorbed drivel. I am amazed at women who are impressed by this vapid piece of work. The author is a shallow harpy with whom I couldn't have less in common. I can't relate to any of her stupid observations or solipsistic epiphanies. I don't begrudge her not wanting children. It's probably best that women like this don't procreate. It was a massive waste of time to spend MY TIME with a woman whose world ends at the tip of her own nose. What a bore. Don't be fooled into thinking this is even a mildly well-written or amusing piece. It is a text book study in what's wrong with many so-called "sophisticated urbanites" today.
 lighthearted and witty July 2, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I think a lot of the people who have left poor reviews for this book have been a little harsh.
I read this book as a recommendation and I have to say I really enjoyed it. If you are looking for a yoga-how-to, or a deep philosophical spiritual journey with literary prose, then you are looking at the wrong book. However, if you pick up the book as a good summer read (as I did) and take away from it the easy humor the authors voice emulates I have no doubt you will enjoy it.
It is not as religious as it seems it is going to be in the beginning either, which again, was a good thing for me.
All in all, I think you have to look at why you are reading this book before you judge it. I found it cute and entertaining. I will read this author again.
I wish there were an option for 0 stars July 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Don't even waste your time. I can count on one hand the number of books that disgusted me so much I couldn't finish them and this was one of them. The whining is unreal for someone with no real responsibility in life. The author is very melodramtic. This woman needs real problems and has WAY too much time on her hands. I really wanted to slap the selfishness out of her. Awful, awful book.
A Must-Read for everyone! July 1, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I usually don't feel the need to write a review, but after reading all the horrible reviews it got, I felt I had to. This book is amazing and incredibly funny! About a woman going through a divorce and trying to find herself. She does have some issues, but who doesn't? And if you think you don't, thats an issue! This book says to me that one thing that sounds good to someone else isn't so great for another. Her marriage sounded great to the average person, but being caught in something you don't want or isn't you is very destructive. It's about doing what you want and not having to justify it. Don't listen to all the bad reviews by people who probably give everything one star because they think everything is bad! I completely recommend reading this book if you want to laugh, find inspiration and yourself!
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