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Eat, Pray, Love

One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

By Elizabeth Gilbert

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| Audio CD | 9780143058526

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Book Description

The celebrated author of The Last American Man creates an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure and spiritual devotion.

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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

To Teach and Delight. This is a critical movement that I learned during my days as an English undergraduate. Critical theorists from days long gone by have advocated the purpose of literature (usually called poetry, but they meant creative writing of ... (read full critics)

womenwriters published on Tue, 28 Sep 2010

Eat Pray Love

Other people's voyages to enlightenment and inner peace invariably leave me with the sort of depression about my own irreversible unworthiness that only a dose of Big Macs and daytime TV can cure. Since its publication three years ago, this chatty, c ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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Awful and obnoxious.

Apart from being infuriatingly stupid in its totality, nothing happens in this terrible book. This lady's self absorbed rants, moans and highly publicized but unmotivated outbursts of generosity have driven me up the walls. I just finished it because I was stuck with it on a plane.

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Rox said on Jun 12, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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At first I thought: "what am I doing reading this middle aged woman memoir?!"...then after a quite depressing introduction the journey begins and the reader is immersed in the authors descriptions of her spiritual journey. The first part was very delightful from my italian point view. The second sec ... (continue)

At first I thought: "what am I doing reading this middle aged woman memoir?!"...then after a quite depressing introduction the journey begins and the reader is immersed in the authors descriptions of her spiritual journey. The first part was very delightful from my italian point view. The second section had me skeptic for a while at first but then I enjoyed it thoroughly even if I never took a Yoga class in my life. The third section was the perfect ending and...makes you want to dump everything and go live in Bali. I think I'll read the next book too, just to know what happens next and enjoy the fresh and witty writing :)

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Ciui said on Aug 19, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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wonder why people were so unfair with this book

It's not a masterpiece and we agree but was not expecting a masterpiece after all.
I didnt even buy the book myself, it was a gift and probabily i would never have bought it, coz i am not really this "woman-book" type. But the book is nice...you wont find answers to how to solve your problems in li ... (continue)

It's not a masterpiece and we agree but was not expecting a masterpiece after all.
I didnt even buy the book myself, it was a gift and probabily i would never have bought it, coz i am not really this "woman-book" type. But the book is nice...you wont find answers to how to solve your problems in life...but at times you can reflect on yourself and your present or past situation. I think people who didnt like it..were asking too much from it. It's a story of a woman, you can sometime find your self there...sometime you might deal with your problems differently but i didnt find like the author is trying to give you solutions...just sharing her experience.
I have already found next person to gift it to...

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jaahbaba said on Jul 21, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

After I watched the movie, just had a simply thought "may be the book is better". So I read it. And yes, the book is better than the movie.
Also I am happy said I don't need to go to 3 places to find the three things. Thanks !

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Teresa TC said on Jan 16, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

I finished the part about Italy when I was in Italy. The part about Italian is not too bad, but her narcissistic way of depicting her own story is not appealing at all. Maybe I will continue this book when I visit India or Indonesia one day?

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Ellery said on Jan 15, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Kalos kai agathos

"All these desires seemed to be at odds with one another. Especially the Italy/India conflict. What was more important? The part of me that wanted to eat veal in Venice? Or the part of me that wanted to be waking up long before dawn in the austerity of an Ashram to begin a long day of meditation and ... (continue)

"All these desires seemed to be at odds with one another. Especially the Italy/India conflict. What was more important? The part of me that wanted to eat veal in Venice? Or the part of me that wanted to be waking up long before dawn in the austerity of an Ashram to begin a long day of meditation and prayer? The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously amid extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing? My truth was that I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyement and divine trascendence-the dual glories of human life. I wanted what Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful".

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Kiks said on Nov 20, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback