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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
she really got on my nerves and hearing her impressions of indian and indonesian people were embarrassing and borderline offensive, still got through the whole thing though and was reasonably entertained for large portions of it
Wonderful book but I was surprised that this was less a travel book than marriage (or break down of marriage) book. I re-watched the movie (because I watched the movie before reading the book) to see what the differences were and the movie turned the story into more of a rom-com and also sanitized the experience. The experience with Wayan, the medicine woman in Bali, to me was - outside of the marriage topics - one of the most important pieces in the book and it was not in the movie at all... That experience being the poverty of people twisting expectations from both local and Westerner. I wish there were more of those travel twists in both book and movie.
at the beginning of this book, i hated the author. i thought she was a self-absorbed, selfish, whinging baby.
by the end of the book, i was weeping with happiness for her.
so yeah, i liked it. good stuff. a little bourgeoisie, but good stuff.
by the end of the book, i was weeping with happiness for her.
so yeah, i liked it. good stuff. a little bourgeoisie, but good stuff.
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
reflective
slow-paced
slow-paced
I don’t get the hype. Like it wasn’t a BAD book, but I wasn’t suddenly inspired or anything. I gave it three stars because I enjoyed it, I wanted to keep reading, but it’s not a new favorite of mine by far.
[I just re-read this, now married and older, and enjoyed it more than ever.]
Come into this book with open mind and spirit. Be able to laugh at the knee-jerk, horribly 'western' reactions that your own heart will surprise you with, and the watch them pass like the trains in the station you're inspired to picture while meditating. Elizabeth Gilbert gives it all to you - dazzling, hideous, gut-wrenching, soaring. This book has a literal life and death about it - only in reverse. It goes from the death of a spirit and sense into the birth of something unimaginably bigger.
I think it's very brave for this author to share her transcendental experiences, both physical and spiritual. Most readers have never had such an experience, or wanted to, and many have minds closed off to even their consideration. Sharing the intimate details of something so personal, so profound, is an exercise in both fulfilling the potential these experiences have revealed in you and also in showing your new, more intrepid face to the world.
Come into this book with open mind and spirit. Be able to laugh at the knee-jerk, horribly 'western' reactions that your own heart will surprise you with, and the watch them pass like the trains in the station you're inspired to picture while meditating. Elizabeth Gilbert gives it all to you - dazzling, hideous, gut-wrenching, soaring. This book has a literal life and death about it - only in reverse. It goes from the death of a spirit and sense into the birth of something unimaginably bigger.
I think it's very brave for this author to share her transcendental experiences, both physical and spiritual. Most readers have never had such an experience, or wanted to, and many have minds closed off to even their consideration. Sharing the intimate details of something so personal, so profound, is an exercise in both fulfilling the potential these experiences have revealed in you and also in showing your new, more intrepid face to the world.
I enjoyed going on this journey with Elizabeth. It was interesting, funny, sad and beautiful
