Eat, Pray, Love - Have you read this book?

[DaintreeDream]

I have just seen the movie trailor for 'Eat, Pray, Love' and I think the book would be lovely to read, I ordered it on the net last night but I am curious if there is anyone out there who has read it already? did you enjoy it?

[Visitor7]

I haven't yet, but I watched the book review on Oprah last week. It sounds amazing.

[Beach Mama]

Gorgeous book, I read it a few years ago and since then I have read it about 5 more times. It is my pick up and read from any chapter book that I read if I am feeling a bit spiritually flat. I love love love it. I am preparing myself for the movie to be nothing like the book! Once you have read it you can see how the tiny nuances and feelings that she describes won't be able to come out on big screen but I want to see it anyway!! Happy reading - are you going to read before you see the movie or the other way around??

[DaintreeDream]

When I saw the movie trailor I knew that I wanted to read the book instead (or first atleast), I love the depth in books, if there is a book I much prefer it over the movie, but then I see the movie and nit-pick the whole way through.

Ohh I cannot wait for my book to arrive now, I am feeling a little flat at the moment, I need a pick me up (and not of the chocolate kind )

[Enchanted]

Beautiful book and I love the journey within it.

I am looking forward to the movie too, just not sure how it will size up to the book!

[Beach Mama]

It really is a lovely book hun. I know some people call it self-indulgent, selfish cr@pping on from someone who spends the whole 200 odd pages navel gazing but I think that navel gazing about ourselves as humans is normal and a necessary part of life. xoxox

[littlelara]

I have it but haven't picked it up yet. Something about the way Oprah carries on has put me off. Can't explain why, cos it shouldn't matter. Guess I'll get to it in my own time

[ss_storm]

I bought it a few weeks ago, but my 'to read' pile is huge, so I may get around to it this time next year

[Heaven]

I tried to but got bored half way through, lol. But I still want to see the movie, I love Julia Roberts!

[nickle730]

I'm one of those people who think it's self-indulgent cr@p! I read it some time ago and wanted to slap that woman the whole way through! Nothing wrong with some navel-gazing, nothing wrong with spending some time examining and improving ourselves... but that woman seems like a narrow-minded, self-centred pain in the a**!!

It took me twice as long as it should have to read the book because I kept rolling my eyes... (That smilie is reeeeally not the effect I was after!!)

Having said all of that, I know heaps of people who loved the book.

[appletree]

:yeahthat:

Its one of the only books i have paid full price for in years and i thought it was rubbish! I stopped reading after only a few chapters as just kept getting too annoyed and i will read absolutely ANYTHING!

In saying that though, i want to see the movie to try and separate the writer from the story and maybe come back and give it a second go.

[Sagres]

I read it recently and some how had no idea there was going to be a movie, I think I live under a rock

Like others have said, I found the writer to be very self centered. I wouldn't go as far as to say the whole book was total self indulgent cr@p - there are parts where you warm a little more to Liz - but it is hard to get over the 'I am the centre of the universe' writing style. Like nickle says there is nothing wrong with documenting you spiritual journey and spending a bit of time contemplating how you work and what makes you tick, but this crosses some kind of line that makes it a bit tiresome.

I assume this book fits in a bit better with the culture in the USA? I don't mean that as bad as it sounds, I am not trying to say all Americans are self-centered, I just get the impressions that they have a bit of a different perspective on the individual and the importance of the individual, meaning this book is found to be less jarring than we find it?

Anywho I am looking forward to seeing the movie because I think it would be hard to be as self centered as the book in movie form.

[kelebek]

I just recently bought the book and I enjoy it when I get time to read it I can see what other posters are saying about it being self-indulgent but because I am looking for ways to be happy within myself I relate to what she is trying to do even if I could never do it her way (hope that made sense)

[MummaSue]

I keep meaning to read it but have also heard others say that it's self indulgent so have been a little put off by that. But have also heard really good things about it too!

[Beach Mama]

I just recently bought the book and I enjoy it when I get time to read it I can see what other posters are saying about it being self-indulgent but because I am looking for ways to be happy within myself I relate to what she is trying to do even if I could never do it her way (hope that made sense)

Totally get you hun, that is exactly where I am with it. I have a Christian background, and without a church home for the last 10+ years feel that I am floundering at times, reading this book somehow grounds me and for all her flaws I really like her. (Haven't we all got some??)

[Manhattan]

I read it a couple of years back. Was so excited becuase of the rave reviews it had gotten, but I was sooooooooo disappointed. I love love love reading, but I found it extremely difficult to get into it. Like Heaven, I was pretty bored with it. I did read it to the end though just to see if it got better, lol.

Hope you enjoy it though Daintree x

[bon]

I enjoyed it, although I did get bored by the time she got to Bali and ended up skipping to the end. The part where she is in India was my favourite. I did think it was self-indulgent, and also the fact that she spends a year of her life travelling to different countries and finding herself is something that is out of reach for most people - lovely for her that she could do it, but most of us can't just pack up and leave our lives for a year. But I think that was the point really - she wrote the book for herself, about herself and doesn't apologise for that.

I did end up feeling very sorry for her ex-husband. She does not paint him favourably at all, makes him look like the bad guy and I couldn't help wondering how he felt about all of it. Two sides to every story, and I was left wanting to know his.