Cat's review
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
you are so right, but the book was still so loveable. i like your point about her 2 houses... so true... wah, wah.
this is the best review ever. thanks!
I so relate to yur comments about chasing life....we have just emigrated to Australia, and I have stopped working for the first time. How do you stop rushing and relax??? Who am I when I don't work??? Perhaps I should read this book!
i love how your review starts out! caught my eye. you are hilarious! well done.
This review is perfect. Everything I found annoying and utterly charming about the book in a few paragraphs. Good readin'.
I was sucked into your review, it was incredible! Normally I find myself just skimming the long reviews, thinking I don't have the time or patience for them. But you kept me there and when I was done I realized how wrong I've been. You're a wonderful writer and after reading your review I think we all can say that we feel like we "know you".
I couldn't agree with you more! I usually don't take anything to read while I'm doing cardio at the gym, but today I couldn't help myself..I HAD to keep reading this book! And I was too embarrassed by the flowery cover, afraid people would judge me as a non-serious reader.
It's like you read my mind and interpreted my thoughts about this book, precisely. Gilbert annoyed the heck out of me, but I liked her very smart and patient and funny friends, so I kept reading. It turned out to be a truly self-indulgent experience, and it was okay with me that I couldn't sympathize much with her, because I still learned a lot about myself in the process. (Incidentally, I got caught reading this on a plane, sitting across from the flight attendant, who kept talking about it as a self-help book. I haven't taken it out in public since.)
What a fabulous summary. I think you're going to make it easy for me to spend the Book Store gift certificates that I got for Christmas!
Read on the metro, girl!!! I recently left DC after living (and commuting on metro) there for 5 years. I will admit that I did remove the book jacket of one book that I was reading on the metro("The Right Man" a love-fest about Bush). I was reading it in exchange for a conservative friend who I forced to read Micheal Moore. I am no longer proud of either 1) removing the book cover or 2) forcing someone to read Micheal Moore.
Read proudly and ignore the people who judge you for what you read.
You said: "What I really love about "Eat, Pray, Love" is that it's all about asking the simple question, "what do I want,” a question that would have come in handy in Australia and numerous other times in my life. It's so hard for some people, including me, and it really shouldn't be."
You can do it -- it's hard in DC, but start by reading what you want on the Metro. Perhaps with "The Geography of Bliss" another travel book along the same vein of figuring out what you want. AND the author lives in DC.
I loved this book and was not at all worried about what other people thought about my reading it.
You really "got" this book, and I seriously enjoyed reading your opinions! And girl, i feel you on the GOTTOMAKETHEMONEYLASTFOR3MOREMONTHS when I lived in Europe for a year as a 22 year old...only it was SIX-EIGHTMOREMONTHS...and only after about 4 or 5 months did I get over the "have to see every museum" compulsion!! And yet, if I had asked myself (AND listened to the answer) "what do I WANT?" I think my experience would have been entirely different...
Thanks for opening my eyes to a new way of looking at this book that I so dearly love!!!
You should be a writer! I haven't read this book yet, but I would read anything you wrote!
There are so much better books to be reading. Gilbert is lucky and yucky. Her writing reminds me of twitty pop singers. A lot of people seem to like them.
Cat's review
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
Cat's review
rating:
I am embarrassed to read this book in public.
The title and the flowery, pasta-y cover screams, "I'm a book that contains the relentless rants of a neurotic 34 year-old-woman."
So, I'm afraid that the strangers on the Metro will think I identify with her.
But in the comfort of my own bed, I am totally falling for this memoir. Yes, Gilbert is emotionally self-indulgent (are we supposed to feel bad that she lost both houses in the divorce?), annoying (she's just tickled when she gains 23 pounds after eating her way through Italy) and often really immature (oh! The endless, endless crying).
Then again, this is a memoir and when the writing is just so clever, so hospitable, so damn funny, it's really hard to hold that against Gilbert in the end.
The plot goes something like this: A 30-year-old writer has everything she wants, including several successful books, a husband and two houses. When she realizes she doesn't want to have kids and that she's not happy after all, she ...more
The title and the flowery, pasta-y cover screams, "I'm a book that contains the relentless rants of a neurotic 34 year-old-woman."
So, I'm afraid that the strangers on the Metro will think I identify with her.
But in the comfort of my own bed, I am totally falling for this memoir. Yes, Gilbert is emotionally self-indulgent (are we supposed to feel bad that she lost both houses in the divorce?), annoying (she's just tickled when she gains 23 pounds after eating her way through Italy) and often really immature (oh! The endless, endless crying).
Then again, this is a memoir and when the writing is just so clever, so hospitable, so damn funny, it's really hard to hold that against Gilbert in the end.
The plot goes something like this: A 30-year-old writer has everything she wants, including several successful books, a husband and two houses. When she realizes she doesn't want to have kids and that she's not happy after all, she ...more
you are so right, but the book was still so loveable. i like your point about her 2 houses... so true... wah, wah.
this is the best review ever. thanks!
I so relate to yur comments about chasing life....we have just emigrated to Australia, and I have stopped working for the first time. How do you stop rushing and relax??? Who am I when I don't work??? Perhaps I should read this book!
i love how your review starts out! caught my eye. you are hilarious! well done.
This review is perfect. Everything I found annoying and utterly charming about the book in a few paragraphs. Good readin'.
I was sucked into your review, it was incredible! Normally I find myself just skimming the long reviews, thinking I don't have the time or patience for them. But you kept me there and when I was done I realized how wrong I've been. You're a wonderful writer and after reading your review I think we all can say that we feel like we "know you".
I couldn't agree with you more! I usually don't take anything to read while I'm doing cardio at the gym, but today I couldn't help myself..I HAD to keep reading this book! And I was too embarrassed by the flowery cover, afraid people would judge me as a non-serious reader.
It's like you read my mind and interpreted my thoughts about this book, precisely. Gilbert annoyed the heck out of me, but I liked her very smart and patient and funny friends, so I kept reading. It turned out to be a truly self-indulgent experience, and it was okay with me that I couldn't sympathize much with her, because I still learned a lot about myself in the process. (Incidentally, I got caught reading this on a plane, sitting across from the flight attendant, who kept talking about it as a self-help book. I haven't taken it out in public since.)
What a fabulous summary. I think you're going to make it easy for me to spend the Book Store gift certificates that I got for Christmas!
Read on the metro, girl!!! I recently left DC after living (and commuting on metro) there for 5 years. I will admit that I did remove the book jacket of one book that I was reading on the metro("The Right Man" a love-fest about Bush). I was reading it in exchange for a conservative friend who I forced to read Micheal Moore. I am no longer proud of either 1) removing the book cover or 2) forcing someone to read Micheal Moore.Read proudly and ignore the people who judge you for what you read.
You said: "What I really love about "Eat, Pray, Love" is that it's all about asking the simple question, "what do I want,” a question that would have come in handy in Australia and numerous other times in my life. It's so hard for some people, including me, and it really shouldn't be."
You can do it -- it's hard in DC, but start by reading what you want on the Metro. Perhaps with "The Geography of Bliss" another travel book along the same vein of figuring out what you want. AND the author lives in DC.
I loved this book and was not at all worried about what other people thought about my reading it.
You really "got" this book, and I seriously enjoyed reading your opinions! And girl, i feel you on the GOTTOMAKETHEMONEYLASTFOR3MOREMONTHS when I lived in Europe for a year as a 22 year old...only it was SIX-EIGHTMOREMONTHS...and only after about 4 or 5 months did I get over the "have to see every museum" compulsion!! And yet, if I had asked myself (AND listened to the answer) "what do I WANT?" I think my experience would have been entirely different...Thanks for opening my eyes to a new way of looking at this book that I so dearly love!!!
You should be a writer! I haven't read this book yet, but I would read anything you wrote!
There are so much better books to be reading. Gilbert is lucky and yucky. Her writing reminds me of twitty pop singers. A lot of people seem to like them.