Eat Pray Love: A Journey of Self-Discovery Through Italy, India and Indonesia

Bloom: I'd seen the movie and decided to get the book. Not only does this completely refreshing your thought process, it takes you on a journey of self discovery and reflection into the things that matter in life. Highly recommended!

United Kingdom on Nov 23, 2023

Rai: I loved the film and watched it quite few times. I was very keen to read the book as normally I find that story in it fills the gaps in the movie. Not this time… I just couldn't get into it from the start. I felt like I was climbing a very steep mountain and just couldn't reach the top soon enough. I persevered and finished it but was left disappointed with the story. It kind of put me of the film too. It's only my opinion. I am not a very spiritual person and maybe I just needed to be a little bit more open-minded when reading this book.

United Kingdom on Oct 31, 2023

Gabriella Rocha: Eu já era uma grande fã do filme e tinha o sonho de ler este livro em Inglês. Apesar de já conhecer o filme de trás para frente, o livro superou muito as minhas expectativas. A parte sobre a Índia é mais arrastada, confesso que fiquei algum tempo tentando sair dela. De resto, adorei cada segundo lendo este livro. É engraçado, é leve e cheio de ensinamentos e frases que vou levar para o resto da vida. Adorei.

Brazil on Oct 19, 2023

Kandica Kiolbasa: I’m stumped on this one because so many people are saying that it’s the best thing ever. I’m not going to be able to agree with that. I’m not sure why people are in love with this book. I found it incredibly draining and boring. She spent so much time complaining it took 300+ pages to get anything positive. The descriptions of each area are disappointing and could be filled with descriptive colors and Scenery. Hoping that the movie is better. Hopefully Julia Roberts will save it.

United States on Jul 25, 2023

Sincere: 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.

United Kingdom on Jun 28, 2023

TheAmazonWoman: This is, by far, my all time favorite book. It meant, and still means, so much to me, especially as a woman. I was a single mother for most of my now adult daughter's life, and I was so desperately sad and lonely after my divorce with my husband/her stepdad (Our wedding, which was obviously well pre-planned, ended up being on the day of Princess Diana's funeral (9/6/1997) and our divorce was finalized on 9/11/2001 (yep, THE day)...There's my "sign"... Anyway, several years passed and I still just couldn't see a future....of anything, happiness, travel, love, ???...(other than going through the motions and working on being the best mother I could be)...I too, was 36 years old at this time. When my daughter was old enough to have a stable relationship with her biological father, I would have every other weekend alone. I used to go to the bookstore "Borders" every Friday night and I would walk aimlessly around the entire store, just looking for any sign, the next sign for the next move, for me... I prayed and prayed constantly, just not knowing what or where I needed to be... with my physical life, my spiritual life, my love life, my motherhood... and then I looked up. On the top...

United States on Aug 10, 2017

Crystal-lee Quibell (Literary Speaking): The first time I saw Eat, Pray, Love I didn't really understand the cover or what it was about. I was a young new mother and had no inclination or time to read anything too heavy or too involved because days might pass before I could pick up a book again. Still, I purchased the book after a girlfriends glowing review. I began reading, tired, overworked and in the throws of mommy hood I quickly became bored, irritated, skipped ahead and like many of the poor reviews left here - I just gave up and passed the book on to someone else. I had similar sentiments in that I was just a regular joe blow who would never have the time or the money to take a year and find myself. Find yourself? Who has time for that, and like other reviewers I judged Liz for being able to do such a thing. Everyone I spoke to that mentioned the book I would say, "I just couldn't get into it." To say I was jealous of Liz was an understatement. However, my jealousy was masked with judgement.

When the movie came out I was quick to line up and be there on opening night. Why I wasn't sure, but I was curious if the movie would translate better for me. My sister and I attended the movie and I completely lost my...

Canada on Jan 30, 2014

Lisa Shea: Eat, Pray, Love is very explicitly a prepaid writer's journey for an entire year where she tries to heal from a painful divorce. She has no children, and her job IS to fly around the world writing about things. It is important to understand this up front. I find that people either love this book or hate it, and often their feelings revolve around this one fact. Detractors feel she is "spoiled" for going off to Italy, India and Indonesia to be on her own. That is what she does! Ths is her job. It is like complaining that Steve Irwin jetted around playing with animals, and did this on his vacations too. If someone has this as their normal lifestyle, and they are actively paid for this, then being jealous or upset that they live this way seems unreasonable. We are hearing notes from a person who DOES live this way. It would be the same as picking up Steve Irwin's book about going around and interacting with animals. To complain that he should have stayed at home makes no sense. It is not who he is. It is not who Elizabeth is.

So, that being said and understood, let's look into this year. It's always easy to throw stones at other peoples' lives. As has been said many times,...

United States on May 19, 2008