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Kerri (USA: OH) (2008/09/05):
I actually enjoyed the Italy part... a little vicarious traveling. However the India and Indonesia part was WAY to new-agey for me, and I was so over the author's self serving "me, me, me" talk by the end. It was very against my religious beliefs, and i felt soiled after reading it. She acts as though telling every single thought about her divorce in print will heal her. She is not the first one on the planet to ever go through heartbreak, and reading about hers does nothing to either dispel or lessen any of my personal heartbreaks.
That being said, there were some uplifting parts to it, but overall i found the author to be whiny and self-congratulatory. The author reveals near the beginning that she was given an advance from her publisher to write this, and it actually feels like it... it's very planned and contrived... and clearly FUNDED.
I prefer the memoirs i read to be about people who could be just like me (let's face it, no book publisher is ever going to offer me untold piles of money to travel around and write about it, leaving my family and all my commitments behind), like "The Liars Club", or "Tender at the Bone."
samharnold (United Kingdom) (2011/02/20):
Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth GilbertEat Pray LoveThe book has been in the press for a while, be it the reviews for the book itself of the amazing hype about the movie version starring Julia Roberts. Not normally a person who is persuaded by others what books to read I succumbed to peer pressure and brought myself a copy. Feeling a little full of cold I thought now would be a good time to sit and read a book so out came my fresh new copy of Eat Pray Love. To say I was disappointed would put it mildly. The first section dealt with the authors travels around Rome I greatly enjoyed but the middle section of the yoga commune bored me there was so much more the author could have added about the wonderful country of India. The last section picked up a little however, I felt that the book had already been spoilt by the middle section. I know I am in a minority with this book as otherwise why else would it have been made into a book but not one of my top reads.
Product Description It’s 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She’s in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they’re trying for a baby – and she doesn’t want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.
Niemi (Finland) (2015/02/07):
I have seen the film, and, to be honest, I liked it better, just because reading the book (first 20 chapters from 109) felt like reading someone's diary. I just couldn't relate with the main character. The book is written in nice and easy language, someone else will love it.
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