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Loading... Eten, bidden, beminnen (original 2006; edition 2008)by Elizabeth Gilbert
Work detailsEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
She sounds like a priviliged whiner, and also combines two of the overhyped genres i hate most: foodieness, and the "my sad life and how i grew through adversity" memoir.  lxydis | May 11, 2013 |  I couldn't make it past Italy. This lady is self-centered and a whiner. I could no longer read about how "horrible" her life was. I wanted to shout at her and tell her to get over it. Most people who get divorced move on and make a life for themselves.... without an advance from a publishing company that is waiting for your book so they can market the crap out of it. I just couldn't take it - her whining and feeling sorry for herself. sara.sassafras | May 10, 2013 | This was a well written book but far too much navel gazing for me. I get that she was on a spiritual journey to find God but felt like I was being hammered with that fact. I understand that a memoir like this is meant to be about the person writing it but at times it just seemed like a small child screaming me, me, me. I would have loved to hear a bit more about the experiences rather than purely how others actions affected the author. This quote came to mind while reading it: "enough about me, now what do you think of me" (  ) jodes101 | May 9, 2013 | Not a favorite (  ) BevM | Apr 30, 2013 | I recommend this book. It’s a book about healing: funny, warm, profound, and often even exciting. As a memoir, it’s riveting, and you get drawn into the author’s need to get over two failed relationships. She chooses to do that by taking herself off to three places. She spends four months in Rome pampering herself, four months in India learning to meditate, and four months in Bali bringing it all together. She’s an engaging writer, and the book is full of interesting characters. Although the spiritual search is a big part of this book, it’s never stuffy, nor does it lecture. It assumes you know what the author knows, and it starts from there. (  ) astrologerjenny | Apr 25, 2013 |
 Gilbert is suffering from shattered confidence. Who hasn't been there? Who hasn't cried on a bathroom floor, sure that our life is over at 32? Gilbert's beauty is that she isn't exceptional; she's just an ordinary gal with a broken heart and gift for writing.  Lacking a ballast of gravitas or grit, the book lists into the realm of magical thinking: nothing Gilbert touches seems to turn out wrong; not a single wish goes unfulfilled. What's missing are the textures and confusion and unfinished business of real life, as if Gilbert were pushing these out of sight so as not to come off as dull or equivocal or downbeat.  This book started out as the movie did, interesting, exciting, and drew me in but the story kind of fell flat at the end for me. I was disappointed even though I did understand that this woman was going through a life changing process. Has the adaptation
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0143058525, Audio CD)The celebrated author of The Last American Man creates an irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure and spiritual devotion.Unabridged CDs - 13 CDs, 15 hours (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:12:25 -0400) Traces the author's decision to quit her job and travel the world for a year after suffering a midlife crisis and divorce, a journey that took her to three places in her quest to explore her own nature and learn the art of spiritual balance. (summary from another edition) |
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