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: How to Pull Yourself Up By Feeding Your Appetite
Summary: 5 Stars
We've all had that moment when we're so low the baseboards look like levees. If you haven't been there, then you need to be prepared. I read this book after years of healing from an awful breakup. The thread of emotion that has remained from that seven year relationship is now just a small part of the fabric of my life that I lead now. This book helped me to see that and I am very grateful to the friend that suggested I read it. Book Review: This book changed me forever
Summary: 5 Stars
Thank you Elizabeth for writing this beautiful piece of literature. Reading this book has helped me learn how to pray again. I am forever grateful. Book Review: The most overhyped book of 2008
Summary: 1 Stars
I truly can't understand what the excitement was all about with this book. This book is full of self absorbed drivel where the author carried on, and on, and on... about the demise of her marriage throughout the entire novel. I couldn't sympathise with her as the break up didn't appear to be that bad.
I felt embarassed for her in the way she carried on about herself as though it was the worst thing in the world when outside the ashram in India was total poverty. Honestly don't waste your time or money on this drivel.
Book Review: If Woody Allen and Saul Bellow had a baby...
Summary: 1 Stars
If Woody Allen and Saul Bellow had a baby who inherited most of her parents' neuroses and love of self-analysis and very little of their talent, that baby would be Elizabeth Gilbert.
Gilbert's writing style is okay. She was amusing at times and I found parts of her descriptions of her stay in India interesting. But I just couldn't get past the author's jaw-dropping obsession with herself. She simply isn't interesting enough to warrant it! I was pretty sick of her after about forty pages.
Why do Oprah-ites think the way to "find yourself" is to spend 365 days thinking about yourself and nothing but yourself? Most of us in the real world know the true path to self-enlightenment comes thru "losing yourself."
Book Review: Eat, Pray, Love
Summary: 5 Stars
A wonderfully written entertaining ,insightful and frank exploration of one person's exciting and stressful, but ultimately joyful life. Her descriptions of places, persons and emotions bring the reader into her world and we are all the richer for it. It's great reading for everyone but especially women..there is something in there that absolutely everyone can identify with. It made me decide to reread it once a year just to put life in perspective again. You'll laugh out loud and cry and enjoy every moment.