Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (0143118420)

Editorial Review:

This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls "Anne Lamott's hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

While we can't all run away....:

I had heard mixed reviews on this book and finally decided to read it for myself to see what I thought of the book, and having done that, I've reached a few conclusions.
Yes, the author can be incredibly self-absorbed. As can all memoir authors. That's why they call them memoirs.
Yes, the author was able to run away, to escape from her life, to try (successfully) to find herself. What woman hasn't wanted to do that, I ask you? Just because she has been able to do that doesn't make her evil or... more info

Eat, Pray, No Love For This Book:

The whole idea of the book is how unhappy the author was in her dream job with a successful husband and large country home, so she abandoned it all to spend a year traveling to exotic places and not working. Basically a testimony to elitist upper class problems and in trying to be self depracating and relatable, she just created a larger void between herself and the readers she was trying to appeal to. Plus, the ending was stupid. Her message was basically that she opposed marriage, but couldn't be happy... more info

Enough already ---:

Thought that no one could be this self-centered. Help -- can't think of one thing positive to say

Good read:

I really liked reading this book. I heard of it from the previews of the movie that is out now. I loved reading about her journey through her travels and finding god. It really hit home for me when she mentions in the book how some are never in the moment and always thinking about the past or worrying about the future because that is exactly what I do. It just made me realize how much time I waste just ruminating over and over about things. It also got me thinking about the possibility of meditation to calm... more info

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