Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia | 
| Manufacturer: Viking
Category: EBooks
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1436 reviews
Sales Rank: 19
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Pages: 352
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.4
ASIN: B000PDYVVG
Publication Date: April 11, 2007
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Product Description
This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls "Anne Lamott's hip, yoga-practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.
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 Glib and Shallow May 12, 2008
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.
A True Adventure! May 11, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
"Eat, Pray, Love" is a true adventure as Elizabeth Gilbert travels the world in search of Enlightenment. She beautifully shares her humanity and her vulnerability as she relaxes into her life. Her love for languages and food are full of passion as her descriptions of both are poetic and mouth-watering. Elizabeth Gilbert's true story and her search for well-being makes a fantastic story.
In my own search, I have found what Elizabeth Gilbert had set out to find, in Ariel & Shya Kanes' books, Working on Yourself Doesn't Work: A Book About Instantaneous Transformation, How To Create a Magical Relationship, and Being Here: Modern Day Tales of Enlightenment. I love that I can vicariously live through Elizabeth Gilbert's words, feeling like I lived her experience in Italy, India & Indonesia. And I love that I have found the life-style of well-being by reading the Kanes' books in the luxury of my own home. It's nice that the search is over.
Wonderful adventure May 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Eat, Pray, Love is fun, adventurous, insightful and an absolute pleasure. I feel like I know Elizabeth Gilbert - what a terrific writing style of authenticity, vulnerability, and wisdom. Loved every page.
Loved it!!! May 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was reading through some of the reviews others have written for this book and felt a lot of them were unfair. I can't even imagine giving this book anything less than 5 stars. I love the rawness of it... The author did a wonderful job describing her experiences, feelings and thoughts on her journey to finding God and worldly pleasures... and a way to balance the two. I found this book hard to put down. I laughed with it and cried with it. Fantastic book!!!
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