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| Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia | 
 enlarge | Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1732 reviews)
Sales Rank: 88
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0143038419
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.4
EAN: 9780143038412
ASIN: 0143038419
Publication Date: January 30, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 This book is so damn funny! October 26, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was dubious about this book, but I needed something not too demanding to make it through jury duty. I sat in a crowded room for two hours next to a fidgeting, groaning woman with halitosis and I hardly even noticed. Elizabeth Gilbert can write. I'm going to read epl again just for the metaphors.
Why wouldn't a memoir be self-absorbed? Aren't they supposed to be? Read _Three Cups of Tea_, by all means. But when you want to bust out laughing, read this.
 Not for me.. October 25, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Everyone loved this book, and while I live my life to eat, pray and love.. She wasn't on the same page with me. She gives up on her marriage in the first chapter. Then she sleeps with a series of men. Who has money to travel to three countries, and have such a distaste for everything. I wanted to reach into the book and ring her neck. I find humor in everything, but this book just made me feel depressed. But, I should have known better.. I'm not in the Oprah book cult.
Beautiful, amazing, inspirating!!! October 24, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book really give me the chance to do some different in my life style! Beth teach us with her own history, so we can know about dificulties without live the difficulties! Fantastic!
I LIKE AMAZON October 23, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I HAVE BEEN VERY PLEASED WITH ALL OF MY AMAZON PURCHASES FOR TWO PRIMARY REASONS; 1) THE PRODUCTS HAVE BEEN IN GOOD CONDITION AND WELL RECEIVED, AND 2) SHOPPING IS SO EASY (NO PARKING, CROWDS, ETC.)
 I've seen the bad reviews of this book, but... October 21, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
My book group (a thoughtful bunch of people) decided not to read this book because, as one member said, "It's self-centered and trivial." So I read it on my own.
Perhaps Liz Gilbert IS being self-centered as she makes her very personal journey through limited parts of Italy, India and Bali. If that offends you, by all means skip Eat, Pray, Love. On the other hand, her adventures, perceptions and, most of all, joys, are contagious and at times delicious. I tired of her search for God, perhaps because I don't care to look myself. But her experiences with personal revelation and, just as important, characters, food and culture, are a lot of fun.
I suggest you read it with a light heart - it's okay to be self-indulgent once in a while, and Liz Gilbert admits several times that she knows she's got it good and is lucky to have this year of self-discovery.
I was in no hurry to finish this book, because it was a simple pleasure.
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