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Eat Pray Love |  | Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 7
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0143038419
EAN: 9780143038412
ASIN: 0143038419
Publication Date: January 30, 2007
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If wisdom could be traded like currency, author Elizabeth Gilbert would be a wealthier woman by far, though it's likely her fabulous memoir, Eat Pray Love, racked up a few bucks during its stay on the New York Times bestseller list. What Gilbert imparts in her story--basically, bracing self-knowledge acquired during a year of travel following a bitter divorce and a shattered rebound romance--is at once astounding yet totally obvious. As Gilbert would attest, albeit more eloquently, the most important stuff in life is pretty much under our noses, but we occasionally have to shake ourselves senseless in order to see it (enlisting a guru and a medicine man are highly recommended). Take this simple but devastating observation posited while Gilbert was on the final leg of a global tour. "I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and then I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been the victim of my own optimism." Ten million women are smiling wry smiles and nodding their heads in agreement (men too, probably, but the book has a definite female skew). Such emotional bulls-eyes are hit early and often in Eat Pray Love, each seemingly more poignant than the last. Alternately funny and heartbreaking and always deeply resonant, Eat Pray Love, takes the reader on two epic journeys - one through Italy, India and Indonesia and the other deep inside Gilbert's intense psyche. Charles Montgomery's towering The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia notwithstanding, travel memoirs just don't get any better than that. --Kim Hughes
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 LOVED IT! August 31, 2010
Trinidy
Although there were some parts that were hard to get through as I felt it dragged on, I couldn't put it down! Which was hard as I bought it to read two weeks before my wedding! Needless to say, when the wedding was over I had it finished in no time and now am reading the next book, 'Committed'
Fantastic.....Makes me smile! August 31, 2010
Ains23 (Vancouver Island, BC)
This book was a true feel good book. I loved Italy, wasn't as keen on India and adored Bali. It truly makes you think about what is important in life. Elizabeth Gilbert has written this in a funny and very personal way that you can only empathise and laugh along with the journey. Love it! Will be reading this again in the future!
 comme ci comme ca August 30, 2010
S. Fowler (Newfoundland, Canada)
It seems that many people either loved it or hated it. It was a roller coaster for me. Started to like Italy and once I warmed up, we were swept away to india and this ashram where I suffered with her while she was praying and praying and cleaning and praying. Oh how painful it was! I felt nausea reading it. Anyway, we then fly to Bali where I actually enjoyed the book and think that maybe she should have just wrote a book about Bali and finding love, because the rest is just filler. Chapter 107, I actually felt rage and take a deep breath because she got back into India-talk again. grr. I mean, there is nothing amazing about this book, besides have the opportunity and money to take a year off and travel the world to "find yourself".
Italy = ok
India = bad
Bali = good
 Looking Way Too Inward and Finding Nothing There August 29, 2010
A. Gallagher (Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm going to play devil's advocate for this bestseller. After some very high recommendations from my friends, I purchased a copy of Eat Pray Love and brought it with me on my winter cruise. After numerous frustrating attempts to get through the first chapter I just could not finish this book. I found Ms. Gilbert's attitude and her prose to be artificial and self serving. How many of us can just pack-up and uproot ourselves, running away from our commitments? I understand the appeal of the book. It represents the imagined journey of discovery, the one without intrusive airport security, lonely moments in hotels and bad restaurant tables. All while being lead around by tour guides like so many sheep. Soon, I took my copy of Eat Pray Love and tucked it back into my luggage.
Strangely Captivating August 15, 2010
Agnes Fehlau (Innisfil, Canada)
I'm not one to read a book from cover to cover - it takes a special type of literary magic to take me through a book in sequential manner ( yes, I know... ) This book was different...it strangely captivated my active, metaphysical mind in a way that I was quite unexpected. Good Job Elizabeth Gilbert ! You certainly got my attention. I started on your next slice of adventure..."Committed" let's see if you can do it to me again ! Agnes ~
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