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| Manufacturer: Viking
Category: EBooks
List Price: $15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1559 reviews
Sales Rank: 42
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.4
ASIN: B000PDYVVG
Publication Date: April 11, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Lighten Up, People! July 13, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Yes, it's a classic Oprah female self discovery book. Yes, there is more than the leopard's share (not really a lion's share, somewhat less than that)of navel gazing. But no, Liz Gilbert is not the shallow, selfish bimbo that negative reviewers make her out to be. She's not narcissistic. She's brutally honest about herself.
Would I buy a book like this normally? No - glad I picked it up in a remainder table at B&N, because I would have been annoyed at the flurry of similar books amazon would have started suggesting if I'd bought it OL. Do I feel like I wasted my time reading it? No! It was fun, rather touching, one woman's soul searching journey. Yeah, the India part was meditation 101, but it still served it's purpose by showing her movement forward.
The last part of the book about Bali is the best. She showed tremendous growth, IMO, and I'm glad she profited by it on many levels. The pettier flames on amazon are most definitely the product of jealous, resentful, childish resentment. It's kind of scary that people can burble over male self discovery ruminations but get so threatened by a very feminine viewpoint of these things. No small part of that is the need for the Witch to Burn (tm) for not being a pristeen character. Wonder how long it will take for that syndrome to shake out of our culture(s)? THAT'S the most appealing thing about this book to me, the very strong sense of balance between negative and positive in human nature.
 Likable and Interesting July 12, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am kind of confused by the reviews I have been reading here on Amazon. The book delivered exactly what it said it would deliver. The subtitle alone is "One Woman's Search for Everything...." It's not every woman's/person's search. Maybe you all don't find that you can relate to her journey because its very self-absorbed? Its a memoir. How can it not be?
I appreciated reading about her unique journey and attempt to heal herself of her very personal struggles/pain. I can even relate to some of them. Not all of them. And yes, India was kind of tough to get through at times. Maybe because I am not super interested in the type of meditation she practiced or really, meditation in general. But, I still enjoyed reading it and learning something new.
To blame her for being self-indulgent seems redundant because I don't think she would really argue with you. If anything, that was her intention.
 Could have been so much better! July 12, 2008
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
Unfortunately, I agree with a lot of the negative reviews. Ms Gilbert is a very good writer but her self discovery does not seem to be enlightening at all. She came across as a narcissist and somewhat uncaring about the suffering around her. The book is not suppose to be a tourist guide but an emotional journey of someone who was in pursue of spirituality, peace, and communion with God and humanity. Regrettably, it does not deliver.
Zero stars July 12, 2008
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
Can I give this book zero stars? I read it for a book group, otherwise I'd have quit reading it after Italy. Like many other reviewers I found the author shallow and whiney. I am amazed that she could write a whole book about learning to rely on herself and then rhapsodize in the end about the new man who validates her existence. What a waste of paper!!!!
funny, but somewhat of a history lesson in parts July 12, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book for the most part. I loved Italy, thought India was something out of a history book (more educational than a personal account), and ended it with the semi-funny Indonesia. As I read Italy I thought, "I'd recommend this witty book!," but as I read on, I decided that I wouldn't. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy learning about other cultures, but I thought the amount of history was a tad overwhelming.
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