Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
 | Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007, Paperback Customer Rating: 1699 reviews Recommend |
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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.
Title: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Sales Rank: 66 in Books
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007-01-30, Paperback, 352 pages, ISBN: 0143038419
Package Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches, 0.65 pounds
- Couldn't finish it...
- ... cause it was just plain naive! I don't want to give it 1 star because parts of it at least made me interested. But overall (until I stoped reading it)this book really didn't do it for me. I think first of all it was too spiritual to suit me and secondly I got really annoyed with the selfishness of Gilbert. I blame myself for the second part though - I should… More reviews
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I took a journey like this… More reviews
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- Beautiful Nuggets of Wisdom
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