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| Eat, Pray, Love |  | Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin Highbridge (Aud)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1411 reviews
Sales Rank: 1477415
ISBN: 0739474189
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780786553808
ASIN: 0786553804
Publication Date: February 16, 2006
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The celebrated author of The Last American Man creates an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure and spiritual devotion.
Unabridged CDs - 13 CDs, 15 hours
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 Eat Pray Love May 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia This book was a great read. Some very clever writing in parts.
 I Love This Book! May 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love everything about this book - the structure, the writing, the humor, the lessons learned. Starting from the concept of the sacred number 108 beads on a prayer bead, the author divides her year's adventure into 3 segments of 36 little stories each. She spends four months each in 3 places - Rome ("Eat"); India at an ashram ("Pray") and Bali ("Love"). She is funny and swept me along on her adventure. I felt I was there with her, and that she is someone I would love to know, as she is so open about her personal journey.
An Entertaining Read May 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was an enjoyable book for two reasons: Elizabeth Gilbert's excellent writing skills, and the premise of the book itself. The latter, which was an outward journey (to three countries) to find inner peace, was something I can identify with. Although the Italy/Food segment lacked a bit of depth, I thoroughly enjoyed the India/Ashram part of Gilbert's adventure (especially her struggles with meditation.) The third segment in Indonesia was interesting from a cultural standpoint, although I have less respect for that culture now than I did (due to the constant pressure for women to get married and have children!)
On a down note, I could never really escape the reality that this is not just a woman alone trying to find herself after a divorce, but in fact, a successful writer who has been given an assignment by her editor (and thus a big advance, and probably expenses paid), and who flies home (to NY) in the midst of it all to celebrate the holidays and transfer her wardrobe.
We ultimately forgive Gilbert for this however, because she is a likable character with self-deprecating humor, and the imagery in her writing transforms us. Don't go with high expectations, just read it for light entertainment.
 Ugh -- self absorbed writer travels globe...yay April 30, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'd read a good deal of these reviews before reading the book and still read it anyway. What a waste of time. It's not that the author is simply self-absorbed it's that she's self-absorbed and at the same time an incredibly self unaware person -- her repeated surprise at finding out that she's a control freak or that she's got "issues" about her serial monogamy are a surprise to only herself. Eat is tolerable and Love is an interesting review of Bali but Pray is just a beat down. If "Richard from Texas" writes a book I'd be interested in what he has to say about the ashram but this book is over-hyped and under delivers.
Can't recommend it April 30, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
My heart goes out to those who say this is the best book they've ever read. Man, they are reading some bad, bad books! I just can't recommend this one. I found it too self-indulgent from an author too self-absorbed. I slogged through to the end because it was a bookclub selection, so was mildly surprised by the tolerable 3rd section, which concentrated on Bali. I did come away feeling I'd learned more about Bali than I have from any other source, not that I've had much exposure there. I know that the book was NOT about the places she'd been, but rather, about herself IN those places. Still, I think any reader is more interested in the place and not the writer's reaction to it. Maybe if she'd been a more compelling character herself, I would have granted her that privilege.
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