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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
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1730 reviews)
Sales Rank: 90
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:
 Like Looking into a Mirror November 28, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
After 3 women had recommended this book to me within the space of one week, I knew I had to pick it up. It didn't disappoint. Any woman at a crossroads who is still looking for herself, inner peace and a sense of perspective in this crazy world will find some incredibly profound thoughts. It's a book to keep on your shelf and re-read a couple times a year. I've bought it for two friends since and have recommended it to my women's group.
Oak Tree November 17, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I like Liz--a lot. It takes immense courage to admit that merging herself within the conventional, traditional American culture has led to misery. She doesn't want marriage, children or the perfect house in the suburbs and has repressed her real desire to write and publish her own works full time. Choosing to cross over to the perilous, confusing journey of her own needs, Liz, not knowing what will happen, visits three countries as she frees herself to become a mature, balanced and fully actualized woman. How does four months each in Italy, India and Indonesia help transform Liz, the acorn, into Liz the oak tree?
She chooses Italy for pleasure in food and language and learns, among many things, that to devote herself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty can be serious (yet comical) business. She chooses an Ashram in India and learns to move away from the worldly into the eternal, from the village to the forest, to seek the eternal compassion of the divine. She chooses Bali, searching for balance between worldly pleasure and spiritual devotion, and learns from the Medicine Man who teaches that madness of the planet results when human beings have difficulties coming into virtuous balance within themselves.
Throughout the year, Liz finds people who help her along the way. Giovanni in Italy, Richard in India and Philip in Bali are among the many people attracted to this friendly woman who seriously, yet joyfully, seeks her own destiny which may be imperfect but better than an imitation of somebody else's life. She must be her own rescuer to become the oak tree that pulls the acorn into being.
(I not only thoroughly enjoyed this book but used it for our October book club choice and look forward to the upcoming film.)
 Interesting story, great reader! November 13, 2006
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Enjoyed this quite a lot. Learned a lot of things about Italy, India and Indonesia that I didn't know before.
This is not a novel, nor does it seem like one. It's more of a travel narrative; still quite good to listen to. I especially enjoyed the reader (the author, I believe). She did a great job, which makes all the difference when listening to books on CD.
Honest and Inspiring November 10, 2006
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is an incredibly honest and inspiring story. I laughed and I cried along with Ms. Gilbert. She says things I have thought but never thought could be said out loud. I am recommending this book to everyone I know!
Great read... especially the first and third sections November 10, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Laugh out loud funny, well, the first section mainly. Then it gravitates to deeper issues. This book is about a spiritual quest. But it's readable and welcoming! I'm usually not into reading spiritual books. I could never get even through the first page of most.
But not this one. Ms. Gilbert writes from her heart and is willing to share every bit of herself, which I'm not exactly sure why she would, and I don't think she is quite sure either but she committed to writing the piece, no matter what. I respect and appreciate that on many levels.
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