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| Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia | 
 enlarge | Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1731 reviews
Sales Rank: 88
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0143038419
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.4
EAN: 9780143038412
ASIN: 0143038419
Publication Date: January 30, 2007
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 One of the inspiring stories November 1, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I don't think everyone will like this book. There's lags in the book. Some parts over dramatic, other parts overly detailed however, this is one book that I will never forget. Elizabeth Gilbert has faced some incredible lows in life. I find her ability to rise above the situation inspiring and for me, I take from it, the realization that life can continue when you've lost it all. I love one of her tales on the power of prayer. It's beautiful. How can you not be uplifted by her journey.
It's flawed but so INSPIRING.
 Shut UP already! October 31, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
One thing became very clear to me while listening to this chronicle of self-love and middle-class privilege: the most dangerous place to be if in proximity of Elizabeth Gilbert is between her and her hugely high opinion of herself.
This puling, grueling, whiny tale of...what? Someone who's SUFFERED so BADLY because they went through a divorce (well I never heard of such suffering! Golly whilickers!) with a man who has committed unspecified crimes (no doubt: didn't praise her highly at least three times an hour). It's a cringe-worthy read, especially when she swoops down on a completely impoverished "medicine man" who cannot for the life of him remember her after her absence of several years (how could he? She's so gosh darned SPECIAL!!!) or when she suckers some friends into ponying out money so that she can later write about how she saved some Balinese grifter lady's life.
I'd love to see what Liz Gilbert would do if she had to write a book like Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickled and Dimed"...where she actually had to go out and do some work and publish something that actually opened up our eyes to the inherent difficulties of most human lives (underappreciated, underpaid, tired, overworked). Oh let me guess...she'd cry on the bathroom floor until we all got so tired of her we'd raise money and send her to Bali, Italy, an ashram...anywhere, just out of our faces.
Absolute gem October 29, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I really can't say enough good things about this book. I think it really is a masterpiece and will be a classic for women for years to come. Gilbert is a fantastically witty and engaging writer who knows how to draw the reader in. Interestingly, after reading this book I found that it was easier for me to be more honest and open in my own journal writing which is something I didn't expect to have happen. I would say that the book is definitely more for women who feel a need to look at their lives in a different, shall I say, more spiritual way. But Gilbert is such an excellent writer that really anyone would enjoy it. I think it's a must read.
 I wouldn't have bought it for myself...but enjoyed it October 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is not the type of book I would have bought for myself. However, my mom gave it to me for Christmas and I found it difficult to put down. It did get a little long and sluggish in the middle, but I'm glad I finished it.
dreadful October 27, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am so happy to see that other people had the same reaction to this book that I had. I, too, had to quit before getting too far and I NEVER do that! But the author is unbearably self-absorbed. Thanks to other reviewers for their honesty.
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