Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia (Unabridged) |  | Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
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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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 Medicine for the liver May 12, 2008
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"...to give a true account..."
Henry David Thoreau
In one corner of my writing desk sits a well-worn copy of a book called The Day with Yoga. This small volume is filled with meditations, organized by days of the week, and represents the voices of philosophers and sages from West to East. Over the years I have read and reread these meditations to keep me on the path, my path, or, like the father and son in Cormac McCarthy's latest novel, on The Road; and like that father and child, I believe I am also "carrying the fire," that thing that hums with mystery (McCarthy). (Certainly not a task for the faint of heart, which should explain the weathered nature of the yoga book.) I will remind myself from time to time of the words of one particular meditation from this book of yoga and particularly when I am struggling, which is often. It reads: "Learning is like rowing upstream. If you make no progress, you drift back." These words have become a sort of pole star for me, something of value to steer by, or row by as the metaphor goes. I have had a similar experience with Elizabeth Gilbert's "search for everything," which she so thoughtfully and thoroughly condensed for us, her readers, into this book of pleasure, devotion, and gratitude. I, for one, am most grateful to Gilbert for reminding me that prayer was meant to be joyful, not to mention participatory. Indeed. What better way of keeping our sense of humor about our human failings than to remember during our sincerest efforts at devotion to smile, as Ketut Liyer, Gilbert's wise Balinese medicine man advises, "even in (our) liver." Amen!
That's the sort of medicine I can swallow. Go ahead, call me a chump. But a big fat smile is the one picture I repeatedly have taught my language students to hold in their heads when words fail them, and words fail us all sometimes, and sometimes not often enough. So while Ketut reminds us that the universe will respond to our smiling livers, Gilbert wants us to know that it will also listen to a plea for help. She takes us traveling with her, through three very different countries and into one lonely miserable night on a cold tile bathroom floor, so that we might see what could be as plain as the freckle on our arm that we have to be persistent in manifesting our own blessings. The search for contentment: It's ours. But sometimes we're going to have to go out, grab it, and drag it home with us (where we can get a better look at it). And sometimes the best thing to do is to go back to bed where once in a while, after a good sleep, reason does prevail.
At a time when the memoir is much maligned, I want to believe that Gilbert succeeded here in this volume in knowing how, as Emerson had once hoped for the diary or autobiography "to choose among what (she) calls (her) experiences that which is really (her) experience." I am afraid that we, as a reading public, are becoming like the young Natalie Wood in the classic Christmas movie Miracle on 34th Street, willing only to express our "I believe" with half-hearted sincerity. So when Gilbert confesses that she recognizes the path of a writer to be one "for the courageous and the faithful," I am going to hope that in writing this book she, unlike James Frey, was brave enough to look into her own eyes.
 Everything and more. May 12, 2008
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Okay, so the ending was a little schmultzie...or maybe I'm just envious...but the book was terrific, inspirational, motivational, transformational, ya-da, ya-da, ya-da. Oh yeah, and it was funny, too. I'm on my second time through, bought it for a gift and have recommended it to many. Enjoy!
 Love it, but it hasn't arrived yet. May 12, 2008
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I have not received this book yet, but I have already read it and it is wonderful. I hope that I do receive it and that it's not lost in the mail.
Thanks.
 Glib and Shallow May 12, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Gilbert writes well: the prose keeps the reader moving along through her adventures in middle-aged angst, and she is entertaining. But the book is supposed to take us through her personal growth and self-discovery, and I was left with the distinct impression that she finished her journeys every bit as self-involved and self-indulgent as she had started them. The people she encounters are two dimensional, either foils or backdrops (or both), and if there is any depth of feeling she developed, it is lost in her witticisms. A quick, light read, but disappointing.
journey May 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful, insightful, emotional, and spiritual journey of a life in crisis to a meaningful life. Full of humor, almost as if you are traveling with her side by side. Highly recommended just to enjoy her journey or to relate with her spiritually.
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