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

Author - Elizabeth Gilbert ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Kindle Edition eBooks item from Viking was reviewed on 30-Oct-2008.

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1) Kindle Edition eBooks Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Viking. I read this book for the sole reason that it had been on the best seller list for a long time.
The good thing about this book is that it shows how the author saw herself through the bad times and was able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I´m sure a lot of people can relate to it and learn something from it.
However, it was unbearable to see everything in the book being about herself and nothing else. Her every interaction with people has a sole purpose. Herself.
She talked about a girl she befriended in the ashram in India. She says that the girl wore spectacles that had broken lens but that didnt keep her from wearing it.. For some reason I got stuck on that line.
Even when she supposedly falls in love, it is all about how he treats her/compliments her and such.
Also, It wasn´t very convincing to see someone change from one mode to another seamlessly (Eat pray love) and become oblivious of the previous mode.
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2) Kindle Edition eBooks Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Viking. I picked up Eat, Pray and Love several times in the bookshops since it was published in 2006. I put it down. Several friends asked me: have you read the book? I hadn´t. Finally, at the bookshop a few weeks ago a friend asked, you haven´t read it? Let me get it for you. OK, I said. I finished reading it a few days ago. It reminded me Sarah McDonald´s Holy Cow. Written in a breezy style, I felt it lacked depth. However, I was empathetic with the Gilbert´s need to do what she as doing and needed to heal. The strengh of the book is that Gilbert does carry out her dreams and helps herself. Many women I know have this need, but not the courage to cary it out. For those I think the books is inspirational. It talks of following your heart and geting in touch wiht your heart.¤

3) Kindle Edition eBooks Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Viking. I really expected a lot more from this author as her book was advertised all over and became popular. I thought it can teach me something I don´t know. But the whole thing was about this woman´s shallow thoughts and feelings here and there and her boring journey with her exaggerating some unimportant happenings in her life and making an annoying cliche out of them. I forced myself to finish this book and could easily throw it in the garbage afterwards. I don´t recommend it to anyone.¤

4) Kindle Edition eBooks Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Viking. This is brilliantly written in that it captures the emotion of the author giving the book substance. The narrative from beginning to end is clear. This is a book about ´transition´, and none the less ´transformation´, and solitude in the arm´s of non medication, meditation. We see Elizabeth Gilbert transform from none the less a convoluted neurotic woman disturbed by a life awakening, a relationship break-up, to a very calm and peaceful soul by the end of the book. This book goes from low to high. Highly recommended.¤

5) Kindle Edition eBooks Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Viking. Sadly, the fact that this book is by a woman mostly aimed at women is embarrassing. This book was planned by the publisher and by the author; it was no true journey of the soul but more like a carefully crafted publicity angled journey.

Gilbert has a problem with the Bible, but easily accepts the doctrines (teachings) of her Guru, the Balinese medicine man, and others, including written Hindu scripture like the Upanishads. The only doctrine Gilbert has any problems with is that which denies that there are many ways to God or teaches that there is only one way to God. This is what she is talking about.

Let us consider where you end up if you think doctrine doesn´t matter. It can take you to a place where there are no distinctions between anything because there are no authoritative boundaries between what is good or evil, or what is true or false. Everything is determined subjectively. This is exemplified in the medicine man in Bali, Ketut, who thinks all religions are "same-same," and heaven and hell are ultimately the same, as well. In fact, he says that hell is love. This is even startling for Gilbert, although she believes everyone is divine. So if that is true, and if there is a hell, then it would be full of divine beings as well. No distinction between good and evil means that good and evil don´t ultimately matter.

Gilbert gives the idea that everything is spiritual as you long as you "feel" it. This book exalts that which is shallow and self-absorbed, not what is truly spiritual.
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6) Kindle Edition eBooks Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Viking. 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.¤

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