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| Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1439 reviews
Sales Rank: 24
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0143038419
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.4
EAN: 9780143038412
ASIN: 0143038419
Publication Date: January 30, 2007
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 A True Adventure! May 11, 2008
23 out of 24 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!!!
What a wonderful way to appreciate our flawed selves. May 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was very honest, sometimes raw, and very real. While I see some reviewers have called the author petty and shallow, I think it gives a very real look into what makes us all unique human beings -- flaws and all. Could any of us be this honest about what makes us quirky or the flawed individuals we all are? Elizabeth Gilbert becomes a more self-aware and a slightly improved version of her former self, but doesn't change entirely. Would we believe it if a person truly went through a transformation that turned them into someone else completely? The point of this story, in my mind, is for us to be more self-aware, and learn how to be better, without losing or ignoring ourselves in the process. And, I appreciate the author's candid disclosure about herself, her life, and her experiences. She's obviously intelligent and funny, and I enjoyed reading her story. It leaves the reader feeling like he/she isn't alone in being an imperfect, but uniquely wonderful, human being.
 author is in need of spiritual awakening May 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
okay, it had a few funny moments, some observations that were incisive and would ring a bell for others; but though i was at first excited to read this book, it took me months, as i had to keep putting it down, much like i end stupid, boring, whining, insensivite phone conversations.
the author is shamefully self-absorbed: ego-centered drivel pollutes the section on prayer, where she predictably got into but never a phrase beyond her very small-case 'self'. obnoxious. i'm embarassed for her. not without its sometimes enjoyable writing, but otherwise, disappointing and sad. choose instead fielding's 'tom jones', anything by hazrat khan, and if you want to learn something about love, . . . get out and volunteer some time with others.
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