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 enlarge | Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Category: Book
Buy Used: $7.45
Avg. Customer Rating:  1562 reviews
Sales Rank: 47428
Format: Import
Media: Paperback
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
ISBN: 0747586640
EAN: 9780747586647
ASIN: 0747586640
Publication Date: 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 I think she grew as a person July 19, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
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
 Could not put it down for a secon July 19, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
 Tripe anyone? July 19, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I made the mistake of buying this book to take to the hospital where my 10 year old daughter was "living" for two months while they figured out how to eradicate an infection threatening her spinal fluid. So, to be fair, only something very profound could have matched the situation, but, this, decidedly, was a grossly shallow and unfortunate miscalculation on my part.
The woman is a garden variety neurotic. Irritating. Period. And reading her journey is about as appealing as digging into a steaming bowl of entrails. They look good, but, in the end, we know what they are and that makes them hard to swallow.
I wish a publisher would say, screw the money...Elizabeth dear, get thee to a shrink and quit boring us all. (By the way, I never made it to India with this woman...I ran screaming midway through Italy) I would have given it one star, but I found the tiny strings of Italian palatable.
 disappointing and shallow July 19, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I agreed with all the negative reviews. It was self fulfilled prophecy when the author found herself on this trip to 'find herself' as she got a book advance - not divine intervention.
She spends the book hemming and hawing about her breakups, and ends her year of self reflection and correction by attaching herself to another man.
The writing was quirky and amusing - but its unfortunate and aggravating to learn this much about her shallowness and insecurities.
ugh! July 19, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I also was excited to read this book, I'd heard good things about it. I was really suprised that I could dislike it this much! The writer is just sooo totally self-centered and annoying. I've never rolled my eyes so much while reading a book and just found it so shallow and the writer so concieted. I found it disturbing that she didn't seem too affected by the poverty she must've witnessed in India, perhaps she was, it just didn not come across to me in the book that she was. If you want some great reads I'd suggest - The Glass Castle, The Book Thief and Three Cups of Tea.
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