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 enlarge | Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1697 reviews
Sales Rank: 49
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0143038419
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.4
EAN: 9780143038412
ASIN: 0143038419
Publication Date: January 30, 2007
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 pure awfulness, worse than a bad rash September 14, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I hated this book after the author while sobbing in her bathroom yet again, announces that she knows she should think about having a child but when she gets her period is relieved that she gets to live, yes these are her words, live yet another month. Please for the sake of soicety don't EVER have children! This book made me mad to read, the author is a disgrace to women with her endless self absorbtion, whiny narrative and ugly disregard for the cultures she polluted by visiting looking for guess what? Herself. This book isn't worth the paper it was printed on and like others, I only read it because it is was a book club selection. Godawful.
 Great Read September 13, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was great to read and the price was great as well. The shipping was quick and the book was in better shape then noted.
WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT! September 11, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
After all the "hype" about this book, (which I had to wonder where it came from?) I gave up and couldn't finish it. Ms. Gilbert talks about a failed marriage but only explained that it was she who decided to just leave to "explore" and find her "inner self"?? I got through Italy with paragraph and paragraph about sightseeing and eating. In India, I'm still trying to figure out just what inner peace she needed? Perhaps she had past issues in her life that should have been explained besides a bad marriage and a man she is or is not in love with? I will admit she does have a witty personality, but this was so disappointing and I'm sorry I wasted my time trying to get into this book. I was determined to finish it but just couldn't. Ms. Gilbert just came off as a spoiled, self-absorbed brat. Good thing she didn't want children!
If it's an "Oprah pick", I'll just leave Oprah's recommendations out of my searching.
 Engaging September 10, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I knew I had to read this book the minute I picked it up. The story line was intriguing and uncommon. I thought it was rather clever how the book was laid out and it fit perfectly into the theme of the book. Gilbert's language is enchanting and you are left with the feeling of having actually been there and met the people she met. It will make you want to put the book down, pack your bags and depart on a journey of your own!!
Note: Although I thoroughly enjoying reading this book, I fiercely disagree with the theology contained within it. Gilbert is your typical post-modern and anything but Christian. Her religious reasoning is sloppy and rather un-conducted. I refuse to condemn this book on thees premises alone, but I will warn readers that Gilbert is a modern day gnostic.
Me, me, me... that's spirituality, right? September 10, 2008
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Ok. To call this a chick book is degrading. I truly felt sorry for the author at times. Does she not realize how pathologically egotistical she presents herself as? Apathetic. Self centered. Shallow. Conceited. Amoral. I had to stop and erase it from my Kindle once she alluded to her Bill Clinton sexual fantasies. Actually, that fit the book in a nutshell. Pun intended.
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