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| Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1557 reviews
Sales Rank: 36
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Amazing - And Best in Her Own Voice (literally, get the CD's) February 15, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have a feeling that if I had read this, rather then listened to her read it herself I would have found it rather self-absorbed and unenlightened as well. I would have liked, but perhaps not have loved it. However, when you hear her read it you can hear all her texture, the pain, the confusion, the hope, etc. She is amazing and I totally fell in love with this woman. I related to many of her feelings, especially about breaking up with her lover and what that felt like and about her depression and spiritual quest. I absolutely adore Liz Gilbert and encourage everyone that loves people to listen to her CD's.
 Self absorbed drivel February 11, 2007
26 out of 46 found this review helpful
I challenge anyone to name an author more self absorbed, trivial, cliche, and boring. Who are these 5 star reviewers?
Amazon - please offer us negative ratings so we can appropriately rate these moronic books.
 Insightful Moments February 10, 2007
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you can keep from judging the author as you are reading, this book is worthwhile. Sometimes I wanted to cry with her; other times I wanted to slap her. She never claims to have all of the answers or to be anything less than self-indulgent. In fact, she clearly admits to being self-indulgent. But at the same time, she is brutally honest for most of the book. I was disappointed by the ending, but the first two sections of the book, Italy and India, were clever and enlightening. I love Gilbert's sense of humor.... I laughed out loud often while reading this book, and I like that.
Wonderful and Insightful! February 9, 2007
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I absolutely loved this book.
I was at the Library looking for something to read and I came across this book a few times and never picked it up. One day when I was in a hurry and needed to grab a book and go, I just took it after not being able to find anything else that looked interesting.
This book seemed like it was what I wanted to do when I was 22 and therefore I did not think it would appeal to me since I am married with a child and have happily put my travel on hold for my wonderful family. Wow, I was completely wrong.
I loved reading this woman's story, her struggle to come to terms with who she is, how she will find happiness and her journey for meaning and self-discovery. Anyone who has felt any sort of pain in life would be able to relate to her struggle to deal with it in her own life. This book also spoke to me in terms of looking inward for happiness and not depending or blaming other people when it does or does not happen.
Bravo, Bravo, Bravo!!!!
This Book Annoyed Me Immensely February 6, 2007
119 out of 156 found this review helpful
Desperate for something good to read after finishing 'Notes on a Scandal' (one of the best books I've read in a long time, possibly ever), I picked up this pile of twaddle in the local book store. I should have realized that the author would have about as much insight into depression, loneliness and feelings of alienation as a clam. You can't feel sorry for the author because she seems to have brought on her malaise almost entirely on herself.. Oh, that's OK honey, you take the house and the apartment that I paid for because I feel "guilty" about leaving you... Please! Is she deliberately trying to set the Women's Lib movement back 100 years?? This attitude is all very touchy feely, 'Yes, I'll take all the guilt and blame for something that isn't entirely my fault because society dictates that I'm supposed to be the submissive gender', but hardly a practical way to live in the REAL WORLD, which the author clearly has no clue about doing. She really has no reason to be depressed given the luck at being able to afford to travel to places most people dream about visiting once in their life, and all expenses paid! Not surprisingly, she really doesn't sound very depressed, we all cried and felt anxious after 9/11..Most women have battled with loneliness and depression, but most are forced to continue in their lives looking after families or children, or just struggling to keep a roof over their head. I bet, if you gave most of these women an all expenses paid trip to Italy they would start to feel better, without the help of a nasty cocktail of antidepressents like she was taking (I counted four different kinds, yikes!).
In short, this book is not funny, or insightful, or challenging. Mostly it's just a series of obvious to the point of being cliched observations about breaking up and traveling in a foreign country. I honestly looked for more depth but it simply wasn't there. Please go eat some more gelato, and please, don't write any "voyage of self discovery books" again. Well, do, if there is a market for this stuff, but I'm personally amazed that any self respecting modern female would find this book anything but insulting.
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