Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia | 
| Manufacturer: Viking
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1636 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
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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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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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 like so many others, very dissappointed September 4, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Not only did I find her whiney and self-absorbed, but also didn't see her as a really great writer. I almost quite half way but I hate not to finish, so I slugged through it all. There were a few interesting times in the book, but they are few and far between. Just find someone who read it and ask them to recap their favorite paragraph and you're done.
 UNrealistic September 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
While parts of this book make for a good read, it is hard to believe that such a spastic person has everything work out for just in time to write a book. If you must read this, skip the
 Naval gazinf but surprisingly excellent September 2, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was chosen for our book club and I was reticent as I do not enjoy books on religion and I was worried that she'd be very preachy, thankfully, she's not. Yes, she does an astounding amount of naval gazing but she is self-depracating and quite humorous. I loved, loved, loved the first section in Italy and so agreed with many of her observations, Pray was hard since she's just so determined to put herself through some tremendous mind hurtles to get to a state of enlightnement, then Love, is a beautiful ending to the book. Is she annoying? At times, sure but she lays herself bare and it's an interesting journey with a triumphant ending.
 How bitter can a bunch of amazon reviewers be? September 2, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I cannot believe the bitterness found in many of these criticisms. "Self absorbed" "talking only about herself" - get a grip, people! Have you never heard of the literary genres 'MEMOIR' or 'AUTOBIOGRAPHY'? It's a non-fiction book where the author mainly talks about - yes, you guessed it - his / herself. It's about THEIR life. If Miss Gilbert wanted to write about the poverty in India or the effect the breakdown of her marriage was having on her husband, I'm sure she would have written a book called "Poverty in India" or "My Husband, and What the Divorce Did To Him". In fact, it's credit to her that she did not delve into too much detail about the marriage - I am sure she was protecting his privacy. One reviewer had the audacity to complain "the marriage didn't seem that bad" - who is she to judge what constitutes a bad marriage, especially one about which she knows nothing!!? Liz Gilbert never promised to spill all the gory miserable details of her marriage, and why it went so wrong. As mature readers, we have to be able to guess some of it, imagine what might have happened. That's part of the art, and indeed the enjoyment, of reading. If you want a book that explains every single detail of every person and every thought and every place and every colour and every event ...etc etc. you should go back to reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and work your way up from there. As reviewers we owe it to the readers of these reviews to at least make an informed and intelligent judgment on the books we choose to review.
Make your book fit the "Church of Oprah" theology, and get paid.... September 2, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am beginning to see a trend here in reguards to "the Oprah book club". This book pretends to be a Christian book, however, it clearly denies the core Christian belief that Jesus is the only way. The language used in this book is almost exactly like Oprah said before on air during a debate on religion. This book, and oprah's club are capitalizing on people's ignorance. I think many buy this new-age garbage hook, line and sinker. If you deny that Jesus is the only way, are denying God, and you will not be able to go to heaven. Say what? Yes, God is a holy God, sin can not be in his presense. So, without Jesus dying for our sins, taking our sins away, How can we be in the presence of an all-Holy God? The answer is, we can not. Some may tell you that the true Christians preaching "JEsus is the only way" is mean, however you will be thankful on Judgement day, becaue your sins will be forgiven by what Jesus did on the cross and you will have access to God. Even here on earth, you do not have access to God without being born-again. John 3:3. You must accept Jesus in order to have communications with God. I would avoid this book at all cost, the author is dangerously ignorant.
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