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Eat Pray Love |  | Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  55 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0143038419
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.4
EAN: 9780143038412
ASIN: 0143038419
Publication Date: January 30, 2007
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| Also Available In:
| • | Paperback - Eat, Pray, Love: Film Tie-In Edition | | • | Paperback - Eat Pray Love Film Tie in Edition | | • | Hardcover - Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything | | • | Paperback - Eat Pray Love Movie Tie-in Edition | | • | Audio CD - Eat Prey Love | | • | Library Binding - Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia | | • | Paperback - EAT, PRAY, LOVE: ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY, INDIA AND INDONESIA | | • | Hardcover - Eat Pray Love |
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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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 BRILLIANT! July 27, 2010
Kimberley Williams
There are too many things I love about this book but I just think it's a must read for every women. I don't read too often but when I picked up this book I couldn't put it down such an amazing adventure and I love adventure and travel which is why I think I loved it more.
I can't wait to see how Julia Roberts (Favourite Actress) in the movie!!!
 Seriously? People love this? July 22, 2010
autumnrose (Canada)
This book took me a couple of months to finish. I really don't know how so many people can love it. Italy was tolerable, because I like Italy and I learned a little bit about it. India was just painful. Indonesia was ok because I knew the book was almost done. I thought she came across as very selfish and annoying. I think so many women love it because she ate without guilt and a lot of women want to travel and escape their boring lives.
Could not Identify with Author July 21, 2010
R. Rashid (Toronto, Ontario)
Eat, Pray, Love is a memoir of the author, written in three distinct sections. The author embarks on a "spiritual" journey through the world: to Italy, India and Bali. In Italy she eats. In India she prays. And in Bali she has a lot of sex.
Personally I did not enjoy Eat, Pray, Love at all. It is imperative to identify with the author in order to enjoy her story. I could not, on any level, feel any sort of kinship with her. First of all, a divorce and a failed love affair did not seem to warrant the type of misery the author felt - but to each their own. But mostly, what I disliked was that at the end of all that hoopla she really had any growth. That if her next relationship ended in heartbreak, she would be better equipped to handle it.
I sort of enjoyed the "Eat" part - with the description of Italy and the food. "Pray" part was okay - I liked some of the descriptions of different meditative techniques. The "Love" part was, for me, the worst. I did not learn anything new or interesting from reading this at all; nothing new about Italy, India or Bali. I also did not feel that the author fully understood the cultures of the countries she visited, especially India and Bali.
Elizabeth Gilbert is an excellent writer and her prose is lovely. I know it is her memoir but she spent so much time on introspection that none of the other characters in her life were fleshed out at all.
Overall, I do not recommend Eat, Pray, Love; however, I know of many who found some commonality with the author and themselves and enjoyed the book.
 Shallow and Uninteresting June 21, 2010
Frank Rizzo (Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the story of a self-absorbed woman getting over a failed relationship. She escapes to Italy, India and Bali in search of discovering some meaning to her life. Unfortunately, her experiences are not only entirely glib and mundane, they are written in such a cute and syrupy style that I finished reading the book only through sheer perseverance. I could go on about how this book can be seen as a reflection of modern individualistic society, but I digress.
I found this book utterly nauseating. A complete waste of time.
over-rated and blown up April 29, 2010
susan (surrey, bc)
I will not see the movie when it comes out as I do not wish to support any more of Ms Gilbert's profits. I was under the erroneous assumption that I would gain something personal from the book; something with which to identify. While the Italian component was a bit fun to read and held a bit of "wish I was there" for me, the India section dragged on painfully. Gilbert makes a point of name dropping her numerous wealthy friends who were there for her. Gilbert had a family support as well as many friends on whom she could rely. She was never left to her own defenses. As the pages turned, I began to expect yet another of Gilbert's successful friends to come up in her story. The book is far more about her connections to a very priviledged society rather than about finding herself in the real world - of being left to fend for yourself and feeling completely alone with very limited funds. And, all is well for Gilbert, because once again she has someone to rely on - her fairy tale ending with a new romance, and, yes, lots of money to do and travel as she wishes.
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