In the end the overall effect was rather like sitting at a party listening to someone tell a long involved story all about themselves, and you're alternately annoyed and fascinated and you want to get up and leave but she's just so entertaining that you keep telling yourself you'll leave in the next minute-and so you end up sticking through the whole thing. I couldn't decide if I loved it or hated it and it seemed like every few pages I'd go from thinking Gilbert was delightfully witty to thinking this was the most horribly self-absorbed person to ever set foot on the earth. Thank you Liz.Wow, this book took me on a roller-coaster ride. I enjoyed the cast and the writing and will listen to this over and over. We are all looking for fulfillment, and reading the search from others is awe inspiring. I would recommend this and the original to anyone looking for the inspiration to make a change, however small, in the context of their life's purpose. Where I do disagree with some of Elizabeth Gilbert's motivations, I was happy to hear the stories of others who read her memoir and were also inspired to make a life change in order to truly find their direction.
Eat, Pray, Love Made Me Do It is funny, difficult, cry inducing, and humbling. This book showed me that not only was I not alone, I was amongst friends. Between the two, I was greatly inspired to make several life changes. It moved me, but not in an earth shattering way. I first read Eat, Pray, Love a year or so after it came out. Just don't expect the same heart, wisdom, pathos either.īeautifully written and gorgeously read. That's not what you're looking at when you consider this book. Of course you're not expecting "Eat, Pray, Love" itself. We don't really get to know the relief and bliss they find. We don't really get to know anyone, know their confusion, know their suffering. But really, the stories are so basic: they run anywhere between 2 to 8 minutes, and there's only so much you can do with so short a window. It turns out he was my David." And "I brought out my Bible: 'Eat, Pray, Love.'" It's wonderful that people were and continue to be transformed I think that's fantastic. Basically it's fan mail and "Eat, Pray, Love" becomes a trite metaphor with people saying, "I thought he was my Felipe. So when I saw a book about how other people were inspired to change their lives, I couldn't click on "Pre-Order" fast enough! I thought: Great! People on the same journey I'd been thinking about!. The wisdom, the emotion, in that book is extraordinary. And it was mind-blowingly fantastic! Seriously, I did nothing else that day except listen to the book from cover to cover, feeling inspired, feeling joy, feeling like I could do anything I wanted in the world. Okay, so like a couple of days ago I used a credit to finally see what "Eat, Pray, Love" was all about. Read by Cassandra Campbell, Marc Cashman, Robbie Daymond, Mark Deakins, Ariana Delawari, Jorjeana Marie, and Emily Rankin. Introduction written and read by Elizabeth Gilbert. Entertaining and enlightening, Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It is a celebration for fans old and new. Some writers face down devastating illness and crippling fears, and others step out of their old lives to fulfill long-held dreams of singing, acting, writing, teaching, and learning. One writer’s search for the perfect pizza leads her to New Zealand and off-the-grid homesteading, while another, in overcoming an eating disorder, redefines her relationship not only with food but with herself. A woman goes to divinity school and grapples with doubt and belief. A man leaves seminary, embraces his sexual identity, and forges a new relationship with God. One writer, reeling from a difficult divorce, finds new love overseas another, a lifelong caregiver, is inspired to take an annual road trip, solo.
The journeys they recount are transformative - sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always deeply inspiring.Įat Pray Love helped one writer to embrace motherhood, another to come to terms with the loss of her mother, and yet another to find peace with not wanting to become a mother at all. Here, in this candid and captivating collection, nearly 50 of those readers - people as diverse in their experiences as they are in age and background - share their stories. In the 10 years since its electrifying debut, Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love has become a worldwide phenomenon, empowering millions of readers to set out on paths they never thought possible, in search of their own best selves. True stories inspired by one of the most iconic, beloved, best-selling books of our time.
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