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 | Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Binding: Paperback
Released: 2007-01-30
Sales Rank: 37
ISBN: 0143038419
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 2008-07-25 - Give her a break...
My wife got this book (from the library) on a recommendation from someone who she can't remember. Just as well; after 150 pages, she threw it into the "return" pile saying the author was a spoiled, self-centered brat.
Out of curiousity, I picked it up and managed to get through it. I say cut the writer some slack.
The book does suffer from two things. The first is the author's refusal to discuss anything about her apparently very emotionally draining divorce which seemed to be the underpining for the whole thing. Some understanding of how she got to where she felt she needed to take this journey would have given the entire book more substance. Second, the book would have benefitted from some much sharper editing. There is some substance here but you have to read, sometimes for over 100 pages at a time, to find it. About 150 pages or so would have accomplished just as much for the reading public.
However, don't knock her personally. No one was / is financially dependent on her and she did self-fund the whole thing from her book advance which her publisher felt she had earned based on her previous writing successes. So, if she wants to go off for awhile (but a whole year....jeeezzz)to "find herself," cut her some slack and treat this as a form of self-therapy for the writer with some travel stuff thrown in to try to keep it interesting.
 2008-07-24 - Great Summer Read!
I found this book a wonderful read. Leaving herself open to the world, the author shares her journey to self-awareness. She seeks something that some in this world will probably never understand for she has a desire to heal herself from within. Through her search, she finds that the Divine has been living inside of her all the time, just waiting for her to find the "bliss" of connection. As a pastor, this is a message that I would gladly share with the great majority of people who are hurting deep inside, those who don't know yet that if they reconnect with their Maker (whatever they call their Maker!) those hurts can be healed.
2008-07-23 - Great Book! Couldn't put it down until I finished.
From beginning to end I was fascinated with this book. I think it is a great book for any woman to read. Immediately after I finished it I mailed it to my mom to read and told her when she was finished to give it to another woman. It was insightful,funny, and easy to relate to. I cannot wait to read another one of her books!
 2008-07-19 - I think she grew as a person
I love travel, personal search for meaning books and although, this wasn't a great book, it was entertaining and I think she grew as a person, some of the country observations were nice. A nice book--don't agree that is has great spiritual insight, but we are on a search for meaning. This is one woman's search.. Perfect for plane travel
2008-07-19 - Could not put it down for a secon
This is the best book i've read in a while. I could not let it go. She has great sense if humor as well as honesty.
I can't recommend it more.
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