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| Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1557 reviews
Sales Rank: 35
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
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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Condition: Visible shelf wear -- may have some notes/markings on pages
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| Customer Reviews:
 Thank you for sharing! July 18, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Thank you for sharing! You are very funny and frank! It helped me to get through my bitter divorce journy. I bought the cd version of the book and was listening in the car with 2 of my young children. I was kind of wish to know that there are some bad words in there ahead of time. But I did make the explaination to my children - especially the 8 yrs old child. I think things are ok. I do really enjoy your book! Wish you the best! Sincerely, DL from VA
 You have got to be kidding July 18, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Save yourself the money and the time and don't bother. If I could bail out on my family, friends and my job to meditate in a cave in India for four months, I would probably find some peace too. I found her to be very self absorbed and self centered. I spent more time saying to my self "give me a break" and "when is she going to get over her self", than actually getting anything meaningful out of this book. This book came highly recommended to me, so I was thrilled to see I was not the only one who felt they have also lost several hours of their life that they will sadly never get back. This truly is one of the worst books I have ever read.
Thought it was a great read and a unique book July 17, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Am surprised by the number of negative comments! I really enjoyed this book, and it's very different from other books you'll read. I don't think the author was self-absorbed; I think she was coping with one of those watershed events in life that change everything and deserve some introspection, if you can afford the luxury. Her true appreciation of the different cultures that she's exposed to and appreciation of the people she meets is engaging. She also is obviously a lover of words (not surprising, given that she's a writer) and describes things in an often unique and funny way.
I enjoyed this book quite a bit. Give it a read......women often don't take the time to take care of themselves, and it's a lesson to us all!
egregious at every page July 17, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
this has to be one of the most pretentious books i have every read. garbage through and through. if you have a fireplace...
 Eat, Pray Love: Self-Indulgent, Shallow, Unfulfilling July 16, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was excited to find this book, having recently rediscovered my passion for travel. The book came to me highly recommended and the description on the back made me even more sure I had found a winner. I could not have been more disappointed. Gilbert, while a gifted writer possessing at times likeable voice, tries too hard too often to be liked. Some pages are genuinely funny while others come across as forced where it is obvious she is fishing for a laugh. This book comes across to me as very shallow and trite. I respect her not wanting to trash her husband, but to not give any details about the devorce? Fishy, very fishy. In the middle of huge pity-party, Gilbert decides to drop everything, and, with a huge sum of forwarded money from the deal that would later come of this book, spend a year of her life "rediscovering herself." What follows is just hogwash! Always vague, never truly saying anything, Gilbert throws up a fog over her journey that a reader has to squint to see through to see what is really going on inside her. Finally, this woman spends half a year in India and Indonesia and no mention of the appauling poverty she must have seen everyday around her. Surely this had to affect her; I hope it left a bigger impression on her than an ex-junkie redneck from Texas.
All this said, the book was funny at parts and I enjoyed her colorful descriptions of some of the characters she met along the way. This could have been a great book, but in the end it comes across as a big woe-is-me tale.
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