Reviews

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

oceanday8's review against another edition

2.0

This book was not as great as I wanted it to be. The writing was fun but for a nonfiction story, I didn't buy the storyline. Not that I think the author was dishonest about her personal stories, I was simply annoyed by the parts that she conveniently left out of her story. Everything would fall into place so easily, there were no perceived difficulties traveling. If you've ever lived abroad, your life doesn't fall nicely together like a planned out novel plot line, it takes a while to orient yourself, you get lost all the time, if you don't speak the language, you are constantly frustrated, you don't instantly make a group of friends in 2 weeks. I guess I'm trying to so say that the story was highly romanticized which makes for a fun book so that being said, I would recommend this book as a good beach read for women.

makenahreads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

ebwestrose's review

5.0

When I began this book, I fully expected it to be cheesy and fake and unnecessarily dramatic. I resisted buying it for a long time for those reasons, but it kept showing up around me, and after finishing it, I wouldn't be surprised if I was predestined to read it. "Eat, Pray, Love" made me laugh out loud (my roommate got sick of hearing me talk about the funny parts). It made me question the assumptions I've made about religion. It made me think about some of my own relationships with people in very different ways. It stopped me in my tracks and made me put in my bookmark and just sit there and absorb what I'd read. And it actually did make me cry. Plenty of readers have said that "Eat, Pray, Love" changed their lives. I've only read it one time through - and I'm sure I'll read it many more - and I think it's just changed mine a little bit.

kmurray00's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

annie_nonnymouse's review

1.0

I wanted to love this book. I had heard that it was transformative and empowering. But by page twenty, I was disgusted and outraged. Self-absorbed WASP bemoaning her white-lady problems. Dripping with white privilege. I can't even. And I'm a white lady...

snaxwelll's review

5.0

i am slightly ashamed of how much i enjoyed this fucking book.

rsuray's review against another edition

4.0

I don’t understand all the controversy and negativity surrounding this book. Liz Gilbert is a terrifically witty and personal writer, and you finish the book feeling like a longtime friend of hers. You don’t have to agree with every thought and decision she makes (or any at all) to appreciate and enjoy the journey she took. I wanted to give it 5 stars but found the last section (Indonesia) lacking compared to the others.

tenderedge's review

Goofy fun reading

emilym1093's review against another edition

emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

angietravel's review against another edition

Not uplifting.
She acts like a whinny, rich, spoiled brat who runs away from her problems to “find herself” for a year and is obviously a democrat who dislikes everything republican (mentions several times in the first half), could’ve left politics out of it! Way too wordy.
Her “how to introduce new chickens to the flock” story is false, that doesn’t work.
Will not recommend.