Eat, Pray, Love
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Watch the 'Eat Pray Love' Theatrical Trailer for the forthcoming movie set to be released on August 13, 2010. Make this your next book club selection and everyone saves. Get 15% off when you order 5 or more of this title for your book club. Simply enter the coupon code GILBERTEAT at checkout. This offer
… More »Watch the 'Eat Pray Love' Theatrical Trailer for the forthcoming movie set to be released on August 13, 2010. Make this your next book club selection and everyone saves. Get 15% off when you order 5 or more of this title for your book club. Simply enter the coupon code GILBERTEAT at checkout. This offer does not apply to eBook purchases. This offer applies to only one downloadable audio per purchase. 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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Traces the author's decision to quit her job and travel the world for a year after suffering a midlife crisis and divorce, a journey that took her to three places in her quest to explore her own nature and learn the art of spiritual balance. 352p.
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Add a Quote"L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. The love that moves the sun and the other stars." — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love "You got to stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone 'oughtta be." — Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love
"When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings." — Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia) "Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it." — Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)
"Dear me, how I love a library." — Elizabeth Gilbert "Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit." — Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia) "Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly." — Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)
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Add a CommentStarted reading it then ended up just skimming through it. She got paid to do this?? Why??. It's okay for people to take on these typed of adventures, but why should others care. Boring read.
It's too bad the book didn't have James Franco in it, like the movie!
I found the book fun to read, it can really inspire a person to travel on their own and see what the world has to offer. The different countries she visited made it look fun and adventurous at the same time. The middle part of the novel was boring and I just wanted that part over with.
Such a great book. So motivational, and awakening. I recommend this book to anyone thinking about a fresh start.
Gilbert bares her soul truthfully in this book (at least one would hope it's truthfully). How many of us would openly admit to sucking the soul from one's partnert? Anyone who has ever been through an unexpected a divorce should read this, if only to perchance dream that your life could be so amusingly perfect post-divorce.
This may be the worst book ever written. Vapid, pointless, self-aggrandizing, sickening; these adjectives cannot begin to convey how bad the taste the author leaves in my mouth. Her fame over this book is unwarranted.
Women will be able to bond over this book. Gilbert is vulnerable and bares all her emotions. That is a brave thing to do. You will go on a spiritual journey with her and feel like you are healing along with her: http://www.examiner.com/review/book-review-eat-pray-love-by-elizabeth-gilbert
It doesn't happen very often, I think the movie was better than the book. Our gal here has problems for sure. One of them is communication with people you love. Lucky for her Penquin books picked up her travel tab, we should all be so lucky. I won't read the follow-up book. She's just too shallow.
I was a little disappointed in this novel, given all the hype around it (especially after the movie was released). I had trouble getting through the "India" chapters- I felt as though I was wading through a quagmire of self-serving navel-gazing and was bored by it. The Italy segment of the book was fabulous and made me want to visit all the sites Liz saw along her journey.
I really liked the book. Yes the author was fairly self entitled, but overall I liked her sense of adventure and the way that she wrote about her experiences. Quite humorous and fun.