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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
from Penguin (Non-Classics)

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Eat Pray Love
  Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia This book was a great read. Some very clever writing in parts.

• I Love This Book!
  I love everything about this book - the structure, the writing, the humor, the lessons learned. Starting from the concept of the sacred number 108 beads on a prayer bead, the author divides her year's adventure into 3 segments of 36 little stories each. She spends four months each in 3 places - Rome ("Eat"); India at an ashram ("Pray") and Bali ("Love"). She is funny and swept me along on her adventure. I felt I was there with her, and that she is someone I would love to know, as she is so open about her... more info

• An Entertaining Read
  This was an enjoyable book for two reasons: Elizabeth Gilbert's excellent writing skills, and the premise of the book itself. The latter, which was an outward journey (to three countries) to find inner peace, was something I can identify with. Although the Italy/Food segment lacked a bit of depth, I thoroughly enjoyed the India/Ashram part of Gilbert's adventure (especially her struggles with meditation.) The third segment in Indonesia was interesting from a cultural standpoint, although I have less respect... more info

• Ugh -- self absorbed writer travels globe...yay
  I'd read a good deal of these reviews before reading the book and still read it anyway. What a waste of time. It's not that the author is simply self-absorbed it's that she's self-absorbed and at the same time an incredibly self unaware person -- her repeated surprise at finding out that she's a control freak or that she's got "issues" about her serial monogamy are a surprise to only herself. Eat is tolerable and Love is an interesting review of Bali but Pray is just a beat down. If "Richard from Texas"... more info

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