I can’t get enough of Elizabeth Gilbert! Her work is truly a light of inspiration for me & I’m so grateful to have access to it.
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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.
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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.