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Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Paperback – 5 Mar. 2007

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'Eat, Pray, Love has been passed from woman to woman like the secret of life' - Sunday Times

'A defining work of memoir' - Sunday Telegraph

'Engaging, intelligent, and highly entertaining' - Time
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It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it.

A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.
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'Gilbert's prose is fueled by a mix of intelligence, wit and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible' - The New York Times Book Review
'Life changing' - Daily Express
'A meditation on love in its many forms - love of food, language, humanity, God, and most meaningful for Gilbert, love of self' - Los Angeles Times
'If you read one book, this should be it' - Sun
'Everyone who reads it has a new best friend' - The Times
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5 Mar. 2007
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12.9 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm
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0747585660
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978-0747585664
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If Eat Pray Love has become a bible for women wanting to initiate change in their lives, then Gilbert is their patron saint ― Sunday Times

A defining work of memoir ― Sunday Telegraph

Everyone who reads it has a new best friend ― The Times

If you read one book, this should be it ― Sun

Life changing ― Daily Express

Gilbert's prose is fueled by a mix of intelligence, wit and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible ― The New York Times Book Review

An engaging, intelligent, and highly entertaining memoir ― Time

A meditation on love in its many forms - love of food, language, humanity, God, and most meaningful for Gilbert, love of self ― Los Angeles Times

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'Eat, Pray, Love has been passed from woman to woman like the secret of life' Sunday Times

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Paperbacks; New edition (5 Mar. 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0747585660
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0747585664
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 3,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 20 in Divorce & Separation (Books)
- 42 in Travel Writing (Books)
- 97 in Women's Biographies

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Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love, as well as the short story collection, Pilgrims—a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. A Pushcart Prize winner and National Magazine Award-nominated journalist, she works as writer-at-large for GQ. Her journalism has been published in Harper's Bazaar, Spin, and The New York Times Magazine, and her stories have appeared in Esquire, Story, and the Paris Review.

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Bought this book years ago with the audio narration. Overall book good but have to say the the audio is not always accurate with text. Plus had problems and had to keep downloading the narration as it wouldn’t sync with text if reading at same time as listening.

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Lots to interest and even love but this book was surprisingly unsatisfying

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I recently read "The Signature of all Things" by this author and, having adored that novel, I decided to seek out more of her works. I had heard of this book but know nothing about it - guessing it might be a novel or a self help book. Before I started reading I did some research about the background and was particularly interesting in the funding story (turned out to be a great investment!)
The idea of travelling in order to "find yourself" always seems attractive, particularly to middle aged women.
Initially I found the memoir difficult to engage with. The author is in her thirties and I though she was trying to use this as a barrier to readers. I also found her chaotic thought processes quite complex to work through. What kept me reading through this was the gorgeous descriptions of sights and emotions. I'm not a religious person but strongly acknowledge a spiritual side of the world which seems to escape understanding - this book made me confront that and think a lot.
At one point, the author describes that her spirituality interests her sister from a point of "intellectual curiosity" which I can understand and think this is how I approached this whole book.
During the year, Elizabeth Gilbert visits Italy, India and Indonesia. In each place she looks for different experiences, all working towards giving her some contentment with her life. I struggled with the transitions between countries as they seemed to happen very swiftly. Overall, I found that I was never really given the chance to properly understand the author and gain any deep understanding of her motives - I think I~ would have preferred this book to be three separate volumes.
What I did love was the open minded way that the author approached everything that came her way and the accessible way in which she described her experiences. I partly envy her religion as it does seem the means to a wonderful way to approach the world and everything that is thrown at you.
Throughout the book there are all sorts of little gems which I am trying to remember to make me a better person.
I may recommend this to some friends but will be very careful who I select. It took me a long time to read this book which is an indicator of my enjoyment.

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It is a well structured book - you can see that the person is a writer and a very disciplined one - usually happens when you have had a blue pencil taken across your work over several years (showing my age, aren't I) ... I bought it because I thought that Elizabeth Gilbert's video on TED was so interesting. She was talking about a subsequent book, but I bought the first one first, to see what had made it the best seller it became. It began like the real 'I was devastated by my conclusion that I needed to divorce this man' whine - you know, anyone who has done the divorcing thing or sat by a friend contemplating it.... I was about to put it down, but the writing style sustained it, when the plot didn't.... I carried on.

Self discovery notebooks can be boring - she turns hers into a series of amusing and reflective anecdotes, and in each part of it, there is something which is not about her, which makes it more than merely bearable. What made me like it is the second section, pray. Here she had authentic experiences of prayer as it is practiced and experienced in India, which made it very exciting. Here was someone who got to speak about the experience, which is perhaps why she went there in the first place. She mingles it with humour, which is great. Love, the final section has also its immensely funny content. It also tells you something about the conventions of the world, and the US Homeland Security department, of itself a revelation to me. Overall, I thought it was worth reading. Is it high literature ? No, but over all, I think it deserves the sales it got.... people enjoyed reading this story, because it is a fine blend of entertainment and insight.

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During the past three years, I have gone from believing in nothing (or so I thought) to being intensely aware of The Universe/God in almost every moment of my waking life. Falling deeply in love and taking up meditation and various other things helped too, but it all started with Eat Pray Love.
I have read Eat Pray Love five times. Each time I read it, I turn down the corners of different pages, so by now almost half of it has been marked out as especially significant, so that rather than refer back to those pages, it's simpler (and more pleasurable) to just read it all through again. In any case, the reason so many pages are turned down is that each time, I get something different out of it.
I first bought the book in February 2009. I was in town and it occurred to me to go and have a look for a Valentine's Day present for my then boyfriend. Now, this was simply out of convention; we were no longer in love and I was desperate to leave but too scared to actually do it. I saw Eat Pray Love and bought it for myself.
The first time I read it, I was into all the bits about being despairing and suicidal, as that's how I felt at the time. I recognised so clearly the woman sobbing on the bathroom floor, wanting to get out of her marriage but not knowing how. On later readings, those passages still hit home, but I enjoyed the falling in love fairytale too.
The meditation and spiritual teaching parts went over my head the first couple of readings, but, influenced by the book, I took up meditation and went on a retreat. Later readings have illuminated my understanding of spirituality as I have absorbed more of this aspect of the book.
Eat Pray Love can be read as a depression survivor's memoir, a love story, a travel journal, a personal account of a spiritual journey, an introduction to meditation or as an introduction to religion. For me, it's been all of those and more. I love this book.

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