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'Highly entertaining ... Booth has always been a very funny writer, and his descriptions of the yoga classes are hilarious. Stimulating and thought-provoking'
--Simon Griffith, Mail on Sunday
'Consistently funny thanks to Booth's default mode, which is curmudgeonly and self-immolating. Deliciously comic, compelling and ultimately inspiring.' 5 stars.
--Time Out
'Consistently funny thanks to Booth's default mode, which is curmudgeonly and self-immolating. Deliciously comic, compelling and ultimately inspiring.'
--Time Out
`charming ... deliciously comic, compelling and ultimately inspiring' --Time Out
--Simon Griffith, Mail on Sunday
'Consistently funny thanks to Booth's default mode, which is curmudgeonly and self-immolating. Deliciously comic, compelling and ultimately inspiring.' 5 stars.
--Time Out
'Consistently funny thanks to Booth's default mode, which is curmudgeonly and self-immolating. Deliciously comic, compelling and ultimately inspiring.'
--Time Out
`charming ... deliciously comic, compelling and ultimately inspiring' --Time Out
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A book dedicated to all those approaching middle age, confronting dispiriting, irreversible physical decline, plagued by a gnawing sense of mortality, and frittering their time away on distractions, regrets and and thwarted ambition...
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Eat Pray Eat was actually less about eating than I expected, and if you're looking for the 10 best Mango Lassi recipes, this might not be for you. It's the unfolding of a full blown mid-life crisis, in a brutally honest and mostly hilarious (though at times tragic comic) way. It's about eating too much, drinking too much, obsessing too much, wanting too much. I relate.
Even though there are plenty of great bits on Indian food in the book, the most interesting theme for me, surprisingly, became the existential self-therapy he is more or less willingly thrown into. I would ordinarily skip the yoga boot camp chapters out of sheer Chick Lit phobia, but as he undergoes his transformation while maintaining a healthy distance to mumbo jumbo spiritualism, palm readings etc., it all became very gripping.
As always with Michael Booth, this is a food and travel writing at it's best, but given the more serious backdrop it also became a personal, insightful and very inspiring experience.
Even though there are plenty of great bits on Indian food in the book, the most interesting theme for me, surprisingly, became the existential self-therapy he is more or less willingly thrown into. I would ordinarily skip the yoga boot camp chapters out of sheer Chick Lit phobia, but as he undergoes his transformation while maintaining a healthy distance to mumbo jumbo spiritualism, palm readings etc., it all became very gripping.
As always with Michael Booth, this is a food and travel writing at it's best, but given the more serious backdrop it also became a personal, insightful and very inspiring experience.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
'Eat, Pray, Eat' details Michael Booth's three month travels around India in an attempt to write the definitive gudie on Indian food. He travels around the country with his wife, Lissen and their two young children Asger and Emil. While he can't wait to sample every type of food, she would like to visit cultural places of interest so it is an interesting mix of both.
This is a fascinating insight into the country, culture, people, religions and places in India - both popular tourist attractions and the more remote areas of the country. For me, it was his descriptions of the food which were the most evocative and it often led me craving all the foods he described.
At times, though this did feel a little self-indulgent. It also highlights his 'mid-life crisis' and his attempts (mostly through yoga and meditation) to overcome this. However, the use of humour throughout showed it wasn't much of a crisis and I would have also liked the hear more about his family and their adventures. Or perhaps a male reader will be more sympathetic to his plights?!
Overall though, I would recommend this to anyone who is thinking of travelling to India or who have interest in food.
This is a fascinating insight into the country, culture, people, religions and places in India - both popular tourist attractions and the more remote areas of the country. For me, it was his descriptions of the food which were the most evocative and it often led me craving all the foods he described.
At times, though this did feel a little self-indulgent. It also highlights his 'mid-life crisis' and his attempts (mostly through yoga and meditation) to overcome this. However, the use of humour throughout showed it wasn't much of a crisis and I would have also liked the hear more about his family and their adventures. Or perhaps a male reader will be more sympathetic to his plights?!
Overall though, I would recommend this to anyone who is thinking of travelling to India or who have interest in food.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
THREE certain facts mark the fate of all men: You will be born, you will die, and somewhere in between you will have an urge to own a Harley Davidson or start wearing inappropriately tight trousers.
In Eat, Pray, Eat, Michael Booth describes his own mid-life crisis, one which works out a lot happier than most. He drags his family to India and hauls them round ghettoes in a bid to write the difinitive Inadian cookery book. Can he do it before he goes mental? Well, let's just say there are hopeful twists and honest lessons to be learnt in this book of man-wisdom.
In Eat, Pray, Eat, Michael Booth describes his own mid-life crisis, one which works out a lot happier than most. He drags his family to India and hauls them round ghettoes in a bid to write the difinitive Inadian cookery book. Can he do it before he goes mental? Well, let's just say there are hopeful twists and honest lessons to be learnt in this book of man-wisdom.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
An awseome, honest and humourous read
I loved this book by the as-yet-largely-unsung author Michael Booth. He has a brilliant, alluring, witty writing style. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Miriam Fogarty
Not so much about food.
I have read two of Michael Booth's other books, the one about Sushi and another about life at a French cookery school so I knew what to expect and was looking forward to this one. Read more
Published 6 months ago by J. Livsey
Good, but not quite as good as the reviews
I read the reviews in the newspapers which led me to buy this book. Although it was good, it didn't quite live up to the energy of the reviews that it got; the best bits were... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Nearly40
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