I re-titled this book, "How I Reaffirmed My Addiction To Male Attention and Affirmation Across Two Continents and Three Countries!"
Gilbert is an engaging enough writer, but all the charm in the world can't mask the essential emptiness of this memoir, in which every single character exists for one purpose only: to help propel the monumentally self-absorbed Gilbert to her privileged American version of Enlightenment.
The dialogue is inauthentic and precious, and the writing degenerates badly by the third chapter, which also features Gilbert and her Brazilian boyfriend dishing the Balinese from their all-wise, Western perspective and shows how unsparingly Gilbert will turn her journalistic lens on those she claims as her "friends."
A book that began with great promise and ended in embarrassing vapidity.
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
PeaceBang, March 27, 2007
I re-titled this book, "How I Reaffirmed My Addiction To Male Attention and Affirmation Across Two Continents and Three Countries!"Gilbert is an engaging enough writer, but all the charm in the world can't mask the essential emptiness of this memoir, in which every single character exists for one purpose only: to help propel the monumentally self-absorbed Gilbert to her privileged American version of Enlightenment.
The dialogue is inauthentic and precious, and the writing degenerates badly by the third chapter, which also features Gilbert and her Brazilian boyfriend dishing the Balinese from their all-wise, Western perspective and shows how unsparingly Gilbert will turn her journalistic lens on those she claims as her "friends."
A book that began with great promise and ended in embarrassing vapidity.
(33 of 52 readers found this comment helpful)