Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Book Review: Loved it
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was given to me by my daughter which was highly recommneded to her. She ended up buying a copy for herself and lent it to me. This book is sooooooooooo good. It started off well and got better and better as her journey progressed. It made me think about my life a lot and made me determined to do something about the things I am not happy with. I just didn't want it to ever end. It made me feel so happy and peaceful. I have passed the book on but am going to buy another copy so I can selfishly keep it for myself. Book Review: Not just 'chick lit' - despite the packaging
Summary: 5 Stars
Shame and shame again on Bloomsbury for their packaging of the UK edition of this exceptional book as 'chick lit'. It is a beautifully crafted and courageous work that breaks all the moulds. It is simultaneously travel book, cultural commentary and spiritual authobiography. It's 'Pilgrims Progress' for our age written with gusto, panache and a candour that never becomes self-indulgent. I was left, like others, caring deeply about Liz and wishing her well. As for chick lit - forget it - I am a middle aged man and I adored this book.Book Review: Absolutely love it!!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
I am still reading this book and I never want it to end.
I am very surprised to see the cover of the UK edition,whoever approved that should be sacked as it gives the book a COMPLETELY wrong image.
I am reading the Croatian edition and the cover reflects the content so much better. They should republish in the UK with a different cover as I would never have picked it up with a cover as it is.
Book Review: I loved it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have just finished this book and loved it. I loved how open the author was with her emotions and experiences. So things did feel a bit contrived but at the end of the day it was a book and needed to be entertaining. It echoed a bit of a Soup for the Soul Book as the book is broken down into little stories all inter-related. I loved the way she writes, it was like reading a chatty letter from a friend. I also loved some of the ideas in the book and think it will remain in my bedside table to cheer me up when needed. I think Elizabeth Gilbert could write some cracking travel guides. Giving us the stories behind the statues. I hope she does one day.Book Review: The popular aspiration of the future
Summary: 5 Stars
Gilbert's adventures combine a challenging spiritual quest with dreamlike travel experiences. Her struggles with inner pain are real and gripping, while the exotic locales stoke the reader's appetite for more. She seems to mix it all very well -- inner growth, vocational renewal, and the best kinds of friendship. I just loved her Balinese friend Wayan.
Some people would consider this book spiritual tourism at its most escapist. But let me give one paragraph as an example of what Gilbert puts herself through:
"It took me a while to drop into real silence. Even after I'd stopped talking, I found I was still humming with language. My organs and muscles of speech -- brain, throat, chest, back of neck -- vibrated with the residual effects of talking long after I'd stopped making sounds. My head shimmered in a reverb of sound, the way an indoor swimming pool seems to echo interminably with sounds and shouts, even after the kindergarteners have gone home for the day. It took a surprizingly long time for all this pulsation of speech to fall away, for the whirling noises to settle. Maybe it took about three days."
I'm really glad to see this book topping the bestseller lists in North America, and I hope Gilbert's kind of adventure becomes the popular aspiration of the future.