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 enlarge | Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1698 reviews
Sales Rank: 45
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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 EAT PRAY LOVE October 9, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved this book. What a beautiful writer she is! She makes the English language sing. Very encouraging for anyone who is "lost" and wants more out of life.
Get it on CD......her voice is just like syrup......you really feel like she is telling her story directly to you as well.
Eat, Pray, Love October 6, 2008
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The book is excellent, and a good read that's hard to put down. Elizabeth Gilbert did and excellent job in sharing her journey to get closer with God, in this book. This book has change my views on the day to day stressors and how I handled them. My development with God has truly been changed in reading this book, I have found God to be so wonderful and exciting and my life has truly changed for the better.
Remarkable! October 5, 2008
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This book is a road map illustrating beautifully---and at times quite humorously--- how one person made sense of this world by connecting to the Other. It's a wonderfully written guide to drawing back the curtain that hides us from our true nature, from God's presence within us. Elizabeth Gilbert has made a lasting and important contribution by sharing her deepest personal issues and efforts to resolve them. Rarely does an author convey such important lessons with such a delicious and delightful personal voice.
 gilbert October 4, 2008
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A memoir about Gilbert's journey through Italy, India, and Indonesia following her painful divorce. The book is divided into 3 equal sections. The first, and my favorite, details her gustatory journey through Italy. She then goes on to discover spirituality in India and, finally, love in Indonesia. I did not find the book particularly inspiring or uplifting though I wouldn't go so far as to say I disliked it. Again, I found the journey through Italy to be humorous and lighthearted. As for the rest? It didn't quite deliver.
She ends the book with a sense of gratitude that is eloquently expressed in the final section. She writes, "In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have our voices". (p. 334) A tender way to conclude.
 Learned a lot about Eastern philosophy October 4, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
There are several themes to this book beyond the three segments. Supposedly it was a woman's search for love, which she seems to have found to some tolerable degree.
Personally, I did not connect to her emotional flailing,nor did I find much wisdom or solace in various types of pizza, and often felt that I could get a better description of Italy from a travel folder, and nearly put the book aside. And yet, I kept on reading and reading and finally got to India, which was Very interesting. I learned a great deal about that foreign and yet comforting religious way of life. If for nothing else, the India section of the book was worth it all.
The Indonesian segment was easy and light to read. I'm not sure whether the author came out more likable or not,but she seemed to feel that she was, so...
If the reader was supposed to learn how to get in touch with God through her examples, I hope that those who didn't know how to do so before reading this book, benefitted from it.
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