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Eat, Pray, Love (Large Print): One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

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Eat, Pray, Love (Large Print): One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

by Elizabeth Gilbert

Large Print Press | October 26, 2007 | Trade Paperback

Show synopsis It''s three 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. Miserable and desperate, she does something she has never done before: pray. ''Hello God. How are you? I''m Liz. Please tell me what to do.'' And then a voice responds. ''Go back to bed, Liz.'' It is more conversation than conversion. Three years later a bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair have left her battered and bewildered, but with a freedom she''s never had before. So Liz begins a year-long journey to find happiness and balance in her life. First four months in Rome, where she learns Italian from identically handsome twins and gains twenty five pounds. Then to an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor - and manages to lay some ghosts to rest. Finally she heads to 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. Funny, tender and thoughtful, Eat, Pray, Love is a hilarious travelogue and a brave quest for spiritual enlightment in the face of natural scepticism. Consoling and inspiring, written with tremendous wit, intelligence and sympathy, it is a book for anyone who has ever felt lost, or thought there must be another, better way.

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    There are already so many reviews on this wonderful book, so my word of advice is: Read the book first and see the movie later!

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    Rating: 1/5

    I Just Don't Get It

    khicks

    9 months ago

    I'm sorry, but I just didn't get it. There was absolutely nothing I could relate to in this book (which I guess is good for me) so it made it a very looonnng book. I cannot recommend.

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    Rating: 4/5

    Proud to have finished!

    Ashley L.P

    10 months ago

    This book is one which definitely takes a lot of time to read, because as three books, three entire journeys in one it is long. It is long and at times tedious, but I walked away from this book feeling like I had learned quite a lot about myself.

    I too have issues with the thought of a Christian God, and all that is written about Him, just like mentioned in the beginning of this novel. This also falls on, as my background dictates, having issues with the Jewish God. However this book made me feel more inspired and wishing I believed in the beautiful practices of other religions more than ever. It made me want to learn more about myself.

    Liz's issues throughout the book, her divorce, the pain of a breakup are something I feel a lot of people can identify with as everyone has had their heart broken in some way.

    The scenes in Italy made me yearn to visit their, to taste the buttery melting pasta, the pizza in Naples, and meet wondrous lively people.

    The scenes in India made me wish for the times when I actually used meditation as a tool not to get closer to God but rather to get closer to what I wanted to write.

    Bali was beautiful, and I could picture these people and the places she visited so perfectly, I could feel what she was feeling so much so. The ideas of Balinese meditation fascinated me even more and I'm probably going to try it. The thought of heaven and hell being circular, being one in the same fascinated me in a way that nothing from the bible ever did.

    This book is often tedious, but in the end I am so glad to have finished it.

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    Rating: 4/5

    Wonderful!

    lc

    4 years ago

    A great read, draws you right in. You'll read it again and again.

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    Destress Montreal

    I read the book and I think its amazing. Personally for me, the spiritual journey began when I took the "Art of Living Course" and since then I have experienced enhanced joy and peace of mind. I just thought I would share this, there is a stress reduction workshop happening at the Concordia University in Montreal this thursday evening. I am going. You should all come and experience how amazing it is. For more info, visit: www.destressmontreal.info

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Show synopsis It''s three 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. Miserable and desperate, she does something she has never done before: pray. ''Hello God. How are you? I''m Liz. Please tell me what to do.'' And then a voice responds. ''Go back to bed, Liz.'' It is more conversation than conversion. Three years later a bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair have left her battered and bewildered, but with a freedom she''s never had before. So Liz begins a year-long journey to find happiness and balance in her life. First four months in Rome, where she learns Italian from identically handsome twins and gains twenty five pounds. Then to an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor - and manages to lay some ghosts to rest. Finally she heads to 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. Funny, tender and thoughtful, Eat, Pray, Love is a hilarious travelogue and a brave quest for spiritual enlightment in the face of natural scepticism. Consoling and inspiring, written with tremendous wit, intelligence and sympathy, it is a book for anyone who has ever felt lost, or thought there must be another, better way.

About the Author

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of the short story collection "Pilgrims", which was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, a New York Times Notable Book, & one of "Glamour's" Best Books of the Year. "Pilgrims" also won best fiction awards from the "Paris Review", "GQ", &"Ploughshares". Currently a writer-at-large for "GQ", Gilbert lives in New York's Hudson Valley.

Trade Paperback

665 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5 x 1.26 in

October 26, 2007

Large Print Press

English


1594132666
9781594132667

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Gilberts prose is fueled by a mix of intelligence, wit and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible. ("The New York Times Book Review")

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