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Eat, pray, love

Francine — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:29:13 -0400

It was a wonderful read. I bought the book for 3 friends! If only everyone going through a divorce could do this.

good read

Guest — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:49:06 -0400

i just happened to pick up this book without hearing any of the hype. I needed a good new read, and this filled it. I am in that phase of my marriage where I can't decide if what I have is exactly what I planned on. He's a sweet man, loving and doting, but there's no passion and i'm afraid that having a marriage just because I'm afraid to hurt someone else's feelings and disrupt my life is really worth it. Anyway, I thought the book was very entertaining, but far from applicable to every woman. There have been plenty of criticism that the author was selfish and motivated by the advance on the book deal, and that she seemed more self centered and selfish than the rest of the people and family around her. I think any one who reads this book should really extract whatever they can from the book and find some practical use for it. Not every element of her life will coincide.

Divorced Author Begins Book Tour

Faith Eggers — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:00:24 -0400

Looking for a good, cathartic read? Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert might be just it. Gilbert's memoir chronicling her year abroad following a painful divorce has become a huge success with more than 1 million copies in print and published in 30 languages.

This is not a huge surprise to us at First Wives World. With all of the divorced men and women out there, why wouldn't this book be a success?

Eat, Pray, Love details Gilbert's journey from a divorce to an enlightened, if more spiritual, place. She spends four months eating in Italy, four months praying and meditating in India, and four months finding a balance in Indonesia.

Gilbert, who begins her first national book tour this Friday in Arizona, says that her book tends to speak to all people, and said, "Even if you're not into the spiritual journey, you can enjoy the pizza."

She says that after her divorce, she desperately need to do what she did in order to "grow up" and get her life "back together."

Sounds like a great idea to me. But according to Gilbert, there are those have disagreed and told her that a year long vacation was nothing but a "selfish escape" from her "romantic failures." What do you think?

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