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Book Reviews of Eat, Pray, Love

Eat Pray Love
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
ISBN: 43828
Pages: 334
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 6 ratings
Publisher: Penguin Group
Book Type: Paperback
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3 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

reviewed Eat, Pray, Love on + 3 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
this book is wonderful. honest, refresing with a sense of humor. if you are looking for clarity and revelation without searching the self help aisle, this is for you
anjil avatar reviewed Eat, Pray, Love on + 45 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
THIS BOOK WAS SO MUCH FUN... I TASTED THE FLAVORS, FELT THE SPIRIT-FILLED MOMENTS AND WAS SHOWERED WITH THE LOVE ELIZABETH SPRINKLED SO GENEROUSLY ABOUT IN BALI. FINISHING THIS BOOK WAS LIKE SAYING GOODBYE TO AN OLD FRIEND. FIVE STARS!
Minehava avatar reviewed Eat, Pray, Love on + 829 more book reviews
First, pleasure: savoring Italy's buffet of delights -- the world's best pizza, free-flowing wine and dashing conversation partners -- Gilbert consumes la dolce vita as spiritual succor. "I came to Italy pinched and thin," she writes, but soon fills out in waist and soul. Then, prayer and ascetic rigor: seeking communion with the divine at a sacred ashram in India, Gilbert emulates the ways of yogis in grueling hours of meditation, struggling to still her churning mind. Finally, a balancing act in Bali, where Gilbert tries for equipoise "betwixt and between" realms, studies with a merry medicine man and plunges into a charged love affair.

Sustaining a chatty, conspiratorial tone, Gilbert fully engages readers in the year's cultural and emotional tapestry -- conveying rapture with infectious brio, recalling anguish with touching candor -- as she details her exotic tableau with history, anecdote and impression.