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Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Eat, Pray, Love

One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

by Elizabeth Gilbert
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  • Feb 16, 2006, 352 pages
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  • Jan 2007, 352 pages
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Lana

Pretentious garbage
I saw the movie on TV ..which was entertaining enough on a rainy day at home ...Unfortunately the book is a shocker...I couldn't keep reading because I felt like a psychologist reading this womens problems , I felt like I should be the one getting paid to read such tripe...to get a book and movie deal it's not about how talented you are but who you know ..incidentally I brought this book second hand for $1 ......it got tossed into a bin in Lake Annecy after 68 pages ...
Stace

Disappointed
I was very excited to be reading this book for a college class. I am only 27 and found myself going through a rough divorce and thought that this book would be helpful and easy to relate to. I was sadly mistaken. This book bored me to death and it took everything I had to try to finish the book without falling to sleep. I felt as though the Author's experiences of life didn't relate to me at all. I don't even want to go see the movie now because of how disappointed I was with the book. Hope others enjoy it more than I did, but I wish I hadn't wasted the money.
Ner

Boring
I was very much attracted by the cover and as they say 'don't judge a book by it's cover'. I was very disappointed with it. It is very boring and I wish I never spent these 7 Euro on it. I flipped my ebook pages as fast as a tornado. I wanted to try and find some interesting part but nowhere was this found. Maybe one part which was not as bad was the Italy part. The rest lacks all features which normally make up a 'good book'.
Mitchell

I feel betrayed
“Make the movie and they will come!” That must have been the creators’ and producers’ mantra. They knew they had us—all of us to whom the book had meant so much. Those of us who were inspired by the book….who identified with Liz’s journey…who evolved and grew from the experience of reading the book. They knew they didn’t have to be concerned about a first-rate screen play. We were already hooked. They had us at, “Coming to a theatre near you August 2010.” But we were hooked because we naively expected the same quality in the movie as in the book. We at the very least expected to hear the same message…the essence of the story. But we didn’t get it. And I for one feel betrayed. In the meantime, the creators and producers have made a ton of money…while each of us have lost the price of the ticket and two hours of our time.
veracity

So Not Inspiring
My review: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Hardcover)
It is hard to imagine that this book is a truthful and spontaneous life and chance adventure.
It gives the impression that the whole idea of this book has been based on a planned and calculated project, for it comes across like it could have been an arrangement with the publisher: In general, it is no secret that most Americans go to Italy for food, to India in search for spiritual enlightenment, and to Bali for love affairs; Nothing mysterious and deep about that.
However, portraying a planned designer book project as a series of unanticipated and blessed events and fortunate experiences with serendipitous people?? The impression that this book gives is so not inspiring. One can only reflects how unoriginal and convenient for a journalist it must have been to take off for one year and divide the time almost proportionately in these places to write a premeditated script.
Sometimes I feel that we Americans are so gullible and such an amazingly profitable target for book publishers!!

Sincerely,

Veracity, Washington, D.C.
KMP

EAT PRAY LOVE
A talented, but self-absorbed, self-serving writer who is a bit like Dorothy in the "Wizard". Happiness can be found right here in your own backyard! The inner city and rural areas are in real need of charitable work-where one can roll up their sleeves and REALLY assist others. That's where real satisfaction and happiness are found-in helping others! Writing to her friends and asking them to donate her "birthday gift" money to a fund, to finance a house for someone in need is very nice, but come on! Get a grip! Generosity can go much further than just opening a wallet.
debuch

Turned Off!
I stopped reading as soon as I read the line early in the book where she basically stated she did not believe Jesus Christ was the only way to heaven. If you don't believe He is the only way, then you don't believe any of the Bible.
Annon.

Trite
It borders absurd that this story could be glorified to the degree of being considered a personal "triumph."

I would love to see how her story would have turned out minus the huge bank account that allowed her to take the vacation of her life.

There is no depth of soul here...she had nothing to overcome and only herself to think about and all the money in the world to do it.

I give this story a minus 0.

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