Denise's Reviews > Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Denise's review
bookshelves: read-and-swapped-books, travel, spirit, 2008, italy, made-into-movie
Jul 15, 10
bookshelves: read-and-swapped-books, travel, spirit, 2008, italy, made-into-movie
Recommended for:
anyone who wants my copy
Read in March, 2008
I just kept thinking wahhhhhh the whole time. Poor woman wants out of her marriage so she leaves.... wahhhh. Poor woman is depressed so she whines wahhhhh. Life is so unfair for the poor woman wahhhh.
Please, poor woman is completely lost so what does she do? Why she takes a year off and travels to Italy, India & Indonesia to try and find herself. I wish I could say that this was fiction but it isn't. She's lost! Join the club but at least you have the money and the lack of responsibility to travel for an entire year and not have to worry about family, money and I don't know life in general.
She finds herself by traveling to three parts of the world - Italy to find her body, India to find her spirit and Indonesia to find a balance between the two. OK, that part I get but I just had a real difficult time finding sympathy for a woman who is able to do all of that and still find time to whine about how hard life is for her.
And guess what there's going to be a sequel - she remarrying so you know soon she will be divorcing and traveling to New Zealand, Prague and the South Pole to enlighten herself even more.
Added to add - great now it's a movie. Soon they will make The Secret into a movie and we can all call it a day.
Please, poor woman is completely lost so what does she do? Why she takes a year off and travels to Italy, India & Indonesia to try and find herself. I wish I could say that this was fiction but it isn't. She's lost! Join the club but at least you have the money and the lack of responsibility to travel for an entire year and not have to worry about family, money and I don't know life in general.
She finds herself by traveling to three parts of the world - Italy to find her body, India to find her spirit and Indonesia to find a balance between the two. OK, that part I get but I just had a real difficult time finding sympathy for a woman who is able to do all of that and still find time to whine about how hard life is for her.
And guess what there's going to be a sequel - she remarrying so you know soon she will be divorcing and traveling to New Zealand, Prague and the South Pole to enlighten herself even more.
Added to add - great now it's a movie. Soon they will make The Secret into a movie and we can all call it a day.
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well I haven't read this book-mainly because everyone else is and that's enough for me to avoid something: trendiness,looking like I'm just following the crowd...;) other reviews have some of the same irritation with the author. guess I was right to skip this one...thanks.
I literally laughed out loud at "great now it's a movie. Soon they will make The Secret into a movie and we can all call it a day."Great review!
My favorite "waaahhh" moment was when she 'finally' gained weight and her pants were no longer loose - hooray! "Waaaahhh, I'm so skinny! I need to eat more pizza and pasta!"
I started this book thinking it was going to be great. I was disappointed by it but hey Elizabeth got her money and lots of press! She was successful from that point of view. I gave the book away.
Totally agree. Gee, I need some self-enlightenment because life is hard. I know! I'll have someone else pay for it. I think life is hard for some of the people in her book, not necessarily the woman who had to give up two (!!!) houses in a divorce. Perhaps it's my own lack of self-enlightenment that makes me not have respect for her journey as very authentic.
I agree that her introspective journey did not seem authentic. At least I did not go to see the movie.
I loved your review. It's to the point and honest - unlike this book. Look forward to reading more of your reviews.


Have a good day. Great review.
Joann