Search - Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

Didn't like it. Gilbert struck me throughout the book as someone who looks in the mirror, is completely enamoured with what she sees, and then writes 300+ blase pages about it. This book is literally all about herself - and I do understand that this is an autobiography - but she just goes on and on and on about how she's feeling or her weight problems or her love life and it does grow tiresome after about 100 pages. The fact that this book is a NY Times bestseller is what kept me reading, but I ultimately gave up. Lovely cover though.

I didn't like it and gave up reading it halfway through India; I skimmed the rest of the book and was glad I didn't spend more time reading it. I don't easily stop reading books, I'll tough it out to the bitter end, but I couldn't with this book. I found the author to be entitled, whiney, and she didn't seem to be enlightened by any of the wonderful opportunities laid at her feet. She added every challenge to her collection of woe and misery as more proof her life is so difficult, and she has every right to be ungrateful and complain. A paid trip to Italy? "Oh, so horrible that I don't have a lover to share it with, because I LEFT HIM." A paid trip to India? "Oh, meditation makes me cranky." I just couldn't tolerate it and gave up.

Eat Pray Love? How about, "Traveled the world paid for by my publisher and had to write some drivel that seemed profound to justify the expense account, and then my publisher felt bad that they spent so much money for me to have no fun and marketed the hell out of this book to make back their money."

I don't get why this is a best-seller, other than the ferocious marketing.

I have to say that I did not even finish reading this book. I have been a voracious reader all my life and I can only think of 3 books that I have not finished in 37 years and this would be one of them. I got this book based on all the great reviews I saw, but found myself completely bored out of my skull with trying to read this.

I loved this book and read it in 24 hours. The movie is by no means an accurate depiction of the book or Gilbert's reported experiences. It's uplifting and a great read.

Amazing, magical, well written, inspirational! I loved this book so much I sent one to a friend and told everyone I knew about it. Then I read it again. If you like travel, food and spirituality this is a must read.

After hearing some many individuals talk about the movie and the book I decided that I needed to read it. While I understand that this is a reflection of herself and a small memoir, I felt that the author showed that she was very whiney and selfish. It is not the self reflection that I thought I would see. There were several times where I found myself skipping over paragraphs, not to hurry through the book, but because I was bored with the book.