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

...guess it had to happen eventually, only 21 minutes into this book and I realised I had made a terrible mistake and wasted my precious monthly credit. The feeling started to loom when the author, reading her book, made the announcement that it was not appropriate to share what had brought her to the point of writing this book, but apparently we were still expected to wade with her through her nobly avoiding lovers and maundering through her randomly and ramblingly defined concept of (oh no) 'god'...won't even give this a second chance...was hoping to deal with the real issues of marriage and depression, not the self indulgent memoir of a too wealthy, wet behind the ears thirty somthing...

I thoroughly enjoyed Elizabeth Gilbert's very honest account of dealing with depression and her search for happiness. She brilliantly describes the nagging dark thoughts encountered during so many people's depressive moments and she travels in pursuit of learning to live with her thoughts through a spiritual journey. The journey is also an escape from a toxic yet addictive relationship. It was refreshing to find a book about the truth of someones travel experience rather then the holiday brochure type travel book. She has a colloquial style that makes you feel like you could be listening to your most interesting and best friend over a coffee. Each time a new chapter starts it is like meeting for another coffee. I will be seeing the movie and I will listen to the book again one day. Even better to listen to this book while on a relaxing holiday!

The narrators voice, she sounds like Kathy Lee Gifford!

Of course the main character

A flow, she wrote the book, she knows how it sounded in her head when she wrote it. It makes the story more believable.

Yes!

This book has officially knocked "The Devil Wears Prada" off the top of my favs list! Another one I'll listen to more than once.

It was like sitting and haveing a coffee and a chat with a girl friend, nice to have the Elixabeth Gilbert narating it as well, for me I think that is what made it all the better.

I am not sure why this book (and now film) is such a runaway success. I found it an incredibly self-indulgent piece of writing especially in the second half of the book. Honestly I cannot understand what all the hype has been about - clearly I'm out of step with the majority of readers/ listeners! The writing style was at times fluid but often uneven which became annoying. Not recommended, but given that the rst of the world seems to be in love with it - you should probably endure it for yourself!

I loved the book, the movie and even the CD but the audiobook is perfect. Elizabeth Gilbert herself is the narrator and she does a perfect job of reading the book to you. She has the right emotions at the right times and does a wonderful job of integrating the other characters in her book with her own voice.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend it to everyone, men & women alike. In fact, Men are far more likely to listen to it than read it themselves, as I have found out with my own husband.

Thankyou Liz for an outstanding effort!

This book is fabulous. I saw the movie because everyone raved about the book but, the movie is so superficial and just does not get the book at all. This book is really about a journey of enlightenment and it is so spiritual and so beautiful but the best part of all is that it is narrated by the author so i really felt like I was listening to a friend telling me about her journey through a really tough time in her life. It was a wonderful read.

I loved this book, I found it funny yet interesting and learned so much from her character. Well done Elizabeth!!

This character is too self-absorbed for me and I found much of this tale tedious & boring. However, there were some great moments as well - some of the narrative really makes you think - YES!! I also laughed out loud many times. If you like self-help books, you'll love it. It would be hard to say this is not worth a listen, but I wish I had waited for the abridged version.