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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
from Viking

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• Kindle Book

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Personal Journey not Book Review: Read with an Open Heart
  I, too, agree that the previous reviews of this book have been about just that: the book instead of the journey of Ms. Gilbert through the lenses of an open mind and open heart.
  Elizabeth takes a risk and puts herself out there by exposing to us all her struggles with food, spirituality and love. This book has created a love / hate relationship - there is really no in between...each you love it or you hate it. I loved it. She spoke to me. I divorced my husband for reasons people didn't understand, I... more info

• A Triune Triumph... and Clever too!
  You've got to love reading to read this through and enjoy it. You have to appreciate her search for the right word to describe her positioning, the right word to describe a city, and her feelings. And, it helps to love geography, spiritual-seeking and psychological understanding.
  I liked it plenty kiver-to-kiver. Clever travelogue-seeker concept. Lots of good writing and research. Interesting topics. Just plain charming and quite intimate and feminine in tone. I thought that the author's... more info

• If you didn't like it, you didn't get it.
  Several people I know have shared with me that they saw Gilbert as self-centered when they read this book. To them and others who feel this way, I must make the following points. First of all, you are reading a book specifically about a woman finding herself - do you expect it to not be about her? Second, the circumstances leading up to her year-long trip around the world were very telling of why her focus in this particular book is so narrow: she was trying to discover who she was as she was trying to pull... more info

• Some slow spots
  Overall I enjoyed this book (esp. the Eat and Love parts), but the Pray third can drag on.

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