Eat Pray Love
One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Ratings229
Average rating3.3
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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Great book showing the fragility of the human heart and how harmony and peace can be invoked into our lives by nurturing the soul. Beautiful descriptions of moments, wisdom tips and good humor. I recommend the audiobook too, read by Elizabeth with her delicate and enthusiastic voice.
first of all, I didn't know this was a real story.. I thought this was fiction until I picked it up. It being a real story somehow makes it worse because the person we follow in the story, aka the author, is very.. I can't explain but girl wtf
this book makes me want to travel, not far but still travel. I'll catch a bus to Sydney or something
I would've liked this better if I was 40 and VERY bored.
Some stuff in this story sounds fake. There's no way that she met that many people who said such inspirational quotes to her like they were a random npc in a game.
It's not realistic.
I want a REAL travel story. My REAL travel story is that I went to Queensland when I was 9 and nearly got punched by a old man for no reason. That's realistic. What's not realistic is that this woman met people who were Jesus resurrected. Weird.
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