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Eat, Pray, Love |  | Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin
Category: eBooks
This item is no longer available
Rating:  2405 reviews
Sales Rank: 20
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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 Struggling to get through the book September 9, 2010
Bryanna Saccucci (Warman, SK, CA)
So I got this book because of the movie. I struggled to read it. The author goes into tooooo much detail about things and it just drags on. She also writes the book for higher level readers which turns me off since there is toooo much detail
 While we can't all run away.... September 8, 2010
Niquey (Royal Oak, MI)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had heard mixed reviews on this book and finally decided to read it for myself to see what I thought of the book, and having done that, I've reached a few conclusions.
Yes, the author can be incredibly self-absorbed. As can all memoir authors. That's why they call them memoirs.
Yes, the author was able to run away, to escape from her life, to try (successfully) to find herself. What woman hasn't wanted to do that, I ask you? Just because she has been able to do that doesn't make her evil or self absorbed. It makes her blessed.
Yes, I truly believe that unless you've suffered something catastrophic such as a bad accident, the death of a close loved one, or a divorce, you will find the author to be narcissistic. Having gone thru a disasterous marriage and subsequently divorce, coupled with the death of my brother and two rounds of unemployment, I am highly qualified to relate, and relate well, to this author's plight.
This book is an enjoyable read, and one of the few books I've ever strung out into days worth of reading just because I've wanted to savor the reading.
 Eat, Pray, No Love For This Book September 8, 2010
M.L. Clemens
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The whole idea of the book is how unhappy the author was in her dream job with a successful husband and large country home, so she abandoned it all to spend a year traveling to exotic places and not working. Basically a testimony to elitist upper class problems and in trying to be self depracating and relatable, she just created a larger void between herself and the readers she was trying to appeal to. Plus, the ending was stupid. Her message was basically that she opposed marriage, but couldn't be happy without a man.
If you're going to write a book about not being able to handle your upper-class problems, so you combat them with an upperclass solution that a 17-year-old with a trust fund would come up with, you sure the heck shouldn't try to get a bunch of housewives living on 35K a year to read it....
Enough already --- September 8, 2010
La
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Thought that no one could be this self-centered. Help -- can't think of one thing positive to say
Good read September 8, 2010
Tera Bytes (Missouri)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really liked reading this book. I heard of it from the previews of the movie that is out now. I loved reading about her journey through her travels and finding god. It really hit home for me when she mentions in the book how some are never in the moment and always thinking about the past or worrying about the future because that is exactly what I do. It just made me realize how much time I waste just ruminating over and over about things. It also got me thinking about the possibility of meditation to calm my mind. It's not the best book in the world and some may not like it at all, but I thought it was an very enjoyable read.
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