Eat, Pray, Love

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A celebrated writer s irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early onslaught midlife crisis She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want a husband, a house, a successful career But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world all alone Eat, Pray, Love is the absorbing chronicle of that year Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty three happiest pounds of her life India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best way unexpectedly An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society s ideals It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change. Read Eat, Pray, Love By Elizabeth Gilbert – kino-fada.fr Wow, this book took me on a roller coaster ride I couldn t decide if I loved it or hated it and it seemed like every few pages I d go from thinking Gilbert was delightfully witty to thinking this was the most horribly self absorbed person to ever set foot on the earth In the end the overall effect was rather like sitting at a party listening to someone tell a long involved story all about themselves, and you re alternately annoyed and fascinated and you want to get up and leave but she s just Wow, this book took me on a roller coaster ride I couldn t decide if I loved it or hated it and it seemed like every few pages I d go from thinking...WHY I cringe to think why so many women want to feel that this was a true spiritual journey It was a pre paid journey The woman starts off with telling us over and over about how painful her divorce was, however she dismisses how it ever came to be that way Leaving her audience only to guess it was so horrible she had to leave and find herself.When asked in an interview if dumping her husband and pushing off wasn t selfish, here is what Ms Gilbert had to say What is it about the American WHY I cringe to think why so many women want to feel that this was a true spiritual journey It was a pre paid journey The woman starts off with telling us over and over about how painful her divorce was, however she dismisses how it ever came to be that way Leaving her au...Eat Pray Love is the monologue of a Neurotic American Princess Liz in her mid thirties The first few chapters background the rest of the book, a confessional that tells how she came to find her 8 year marriage distasteful, realised she wasn t keen on the next logical step which is apparently to fill her expansive apartment with children, and plunges into an impotent depression Without even getting drunk.One night, whilst bawling on the bathroom floor, a habit she has grown fond of, she i Eat Pray Love is the monologue of a Neurotic American Princess Liz in her mid thirties The first few chapters background the rest of the book, a confessional that tells how she came to find her 8 year marriage distasteful, realised she wasn t keen on the next logical step which is apparently to fill her expansive apartment with children, and plunges into an impotent depression Without even getting drunk.One night, whilst bawling on the bathroom floor, a habit she has grown fond of, she is struck by a flakey attack of twattery Being an American, this experience manifests itself as finding some kind of God or thereabouts Naturally, she resolves to leave her husband Her husba...Don t bother with this book.It took me nearly a year to finish it I was so disgusted by the writer s apparent lack of awareness of her own privilege, her trite observations, and the unbelievably shallow way in which she represents a journey initiated by grief, that I initially couldn t bear to read beyond Italy Like others who have written here, I made myself pick the book up again because so many people have raved about it, and I made myself finish it, hoping all the while there would be some Don t bother with this book.It took me nearly a year to finish it I was so...I am embarrassed to read this book in public The title and the flowery, pasta y cover screams, I m a book that contains the relentless rants of a neurotic 34 year old woman So, I m afraid that the strangers on the Metro will think I identify with her.But in the comfort of my own bed, I am totally falling for this memoir Yes, Gilbert is emotionally self indulgent are we supposed to feel bad that she lost both houses in the divorce , annoying she s just tickled when she gains 23 pounds afte I am embarrassed to read this book in public The title and the flowery, pasta y cover screams, I m a book that contains the relentless rants of a neurotic 34 year old woman So, I m afraid that the strangers on the Metro will think I identify with her.But in the comfort of my own bed, I am totally falling for this memoir Yes, Gilbert is emotionally self indulgent are we supposed to feel bad that she lost both houses in the divorce , annoying she s just tickled when she gains 23 pounds after eating her way through Italy and often really immature oh The endless, endless crying.Then again, this is a memoir and when the writing is just so clever, so hospitable, so damn funny, it s really hard to hold that against...So today I was watching TLC s My Strange Addiction, featuring a woman who had an addiction to using baby wipes She used up to 500 of them a day, and that adds up to about 4,500,000 wipes since her addiction began.The woman, Rhia, would use the wipes to clean herself because she had a learned fear of the shower This stemmed from her being horribly abused in her youth, wherein the terrible things that were done to her were preceded by and ended with a shower This debili...This was one of those books I will read over and over again All those cynics out there who criticize Gilbert for writing a too cutesy memoir that seems beyond belief and who claim that she is selfish for leaving her responsibility are clearly missing the point First, she did not write the book to inspire you She wrote it as her own memoir you can agree or disagree with how she went about her enlightenment, bu...I found this book unbelievably phoney.I hated this so much that I got up early this morning to finish it and gave my copy to the library and honestly, I m not too proud of that.To me it just felt so insincere that there s no chance I would have made it past the second chapter had it not been for book club obligations.I enjoyed her writing style, but I absolutely could not warm to her at all To be fair, I do think she would be an excellent travel writer.The section on India was agony to read I I found this book unbelievably phoney.I hated this so much that I got up early this morning to finish it and gave my copy to the library and honestly, I m not too proud of that.To me it just felt so insincere that there s no chance I would have made it past the second chapter had it not been for book clu...Shallow, self indulgent and mired in the sort of liberal American obsession with oriental exoticism that is uniquely offensive because it is treated as enobling by its purveyors She treats the rest of the world as though it exists for the consumption...14 septemper 201414 septemper 2014 13 5 2015

Eat, Pray, Love
  • English
  • 17 July 2017
  • Paperback
  • 334 pages
  • 0143038419
  • Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Eat, Pray, Love