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:  1452 reviews
Sales Rank: 17
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Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.4
ASIN: B000PDYVVG
Publication Date: April 11, 2007
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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.
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 On The Top Of My LIst ! May 17, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Joanne Scaglione, Author Living The Secret Everyday: My Secret Workbook
Yes, this is probably one of my favorites. Elizabeth Gilbert is a very talented writer who knows how to keep her readers interest. I so could relate to her search and journey to find herself. It will make you laugh and tug at your heart strings as you follow her around the world. I give it an A+++. Read it and see for yourself. Congratulations Elizabeth.
The courage to be yourself requires great strength May 17, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Monteiro Lobato, a great Brazilian writer, once said: "To be yourself requires a lot of work and a constant vigilance because everything conspires so that we can just be another sheep from many different religion, political or ethnic flocks. The world hates exception and to be yourself is to be an exception."
Liz is selfish and guess what: she should be proud of it! The altruists, many helping others in a selfishly act to feel good about themselves and impress friends, will not agree of course, but finding happiness is not just a surviving act, it is a moral obligation. As the book explains very nicely in the end: be happy then you are helping making this world a better place. Be unhappy and you are helping destroy this world. To blame someone for my unhappiness is just plain stupid. It is non-sense. It is dependency showing its ugliest face. It is society most favorite game.
Anyways, the book is very good, is very sincere, is funny, informative and made the author a lot of money so people will naturally get very jealous about it (some positively and some destructively). Although I don't agree with certain aspects of Liz's personality, I admire her courage to be herself and write about it. Not everybody is ready or want to read this book.
What made Liz very happy at the end was not her pizza, her meditation, her medicine man or her new possessive relationship. What made her happy was to be free from society, religion, God, parents, family, husband, boss, sex and be able to taste the blue freedom.
Praise for Eat, Pray and Love!
 Uninspiring May 17, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
From the first words of this book I was repelled. My first repulsion was the author's propensity to ramble on and on and on about an experience/feeling/opinion of hers that she seemed to be overly impressed by. Her ego was the next problem. It made reading about her experiences akin to being poked over and over again by a prickly thorn. As for her sense of humor, I can at least say that I knew when she was trying to evoke laughter. The problem was that even her self-deprecating humor was filled more with vanity than with wit or charm or anything that would elicit a smile or chuckle. I felt that the author truly believed that she traveled to the edge of reason and sanity and returned with adventurous and colorful tales. But for me, her book read like the whimpering meanderings of a very average life that could have been recorded into a journal bought from Borders and tucked into a corner. I'm unclear how a meaningful spiritual journey could be based on pride rather than humility, but to each their own path. A lot of women have experienced more in a minute than she did in her 30 plus years, which makes reading her whining tales a very uninspiring experience. This book probably would impress the minds of the many people who live sugar-coated lives and would be enthralled by the author feeling Ghandi-like b/c she was willing to give her husband everything in their divorce (not due to altruism but to release her own guilt). This in the author's mind acquainted her life with that of true Martyrs. I think that alone speaks for itself and should be enough for anyone to decide if this book would be of interest to them.
Inspiring, Exciting, Educative, Entertaining May 16, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
What a delightful book! I read it twice. Having been to Italy and Indonesia several times, I connected immediately to what Liz Gilbert had written, and I tended to breeze through India a bit too fast. That part was probably the most meaningful of the book and I'm glad I paid more attention the 2nd time around.
What an inspiring story. The author's style is easy to follow. It's one of the best books of the decade in my opinion!
 Hoped for More... May 16, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
After seeing this book do so well, I had to read it! However, while reading it, I found myself wondering what all the fuss was about. While I found Gilbert to be incredibly talented with metaphors and insightful at times, she displayed an air of superiority that got under my skin and kept me from fully enjoying her story.
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