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Book Review of Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
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For the most part I enjoyed this book. The writing flows well, though it leans a bit too much on colloquialisms I find annoying, such as "Me and my lover, we.." (I forget now what they did, but it was annoying. I would have rated this book higher, but as a vegan I find it difficult to reconcile sprituality with the continued oppression and mutilation of animals, especially for those of us who live in western countries where non-animal alternatives abound. To me that smacked of hypocrisy.

That said, there is still an inspirational and hopeful element to the book, while it is at the same time an intimate memoir.