Book Review: ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ by Elizabeth Gilbert - A Book that Teaches You How to Live

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A praised essayist's powerful, genuine, and articulate record of her quest for common joy, profound dedication, and what she truly deeply desired. 

Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-attack emotional meltdown. She had everything an informed, driven American lady should need—a spouse, a house, an effective profession.

In any case, rather than feeling glad and satisfied, she was overwhelmed by frenzy, melancholy, and disarray. She went through a separation, devastating wretchedness, another bombed love, and the annihilation of all that she at any point thought she should be. 

To recuperate from this, Gilbert made an extreme stride. To give herself the existence to discover who she truly was and what she truly needed, she disposed of her assets, quit her place of employment, and attempted a yearlong excursion all throughout the planet—in isolation.

Eat, Pray, Love is the retaining account of that year. Her point was to visit three spots where she could analyze one part of her own tendency set against the background of a culture that has generally done that one thing quite well. 

In Rome, she contemplated the craft of joy, figuring out how to communicate in Italian and acquiring the 23 most joyful pounds of her life. India was for the specialty of dedication, and with the assistance of a local master and a shockingly shrewd cattle rustler from Texas, she left on four continuous long periods of otherworldly investigation.

In Bali, she considered the specialty of harmony between common delight and heavenly greatness. She turned into the understudy of an old medication man and furthermore fell head over heels the most ideal way—out of the blue. 

A strongly eloquent and moving diary of self-revelation, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you guarantee obligation regarding your own happiness and quit attempting to live in impersonation of society's standards. It is sure to contact any individual who has at any point woken up to the tenacious requirement for change.

Introduction

Book’s name - Eat, Pray, Love

Author - Elizabeth Gilbert

Genre - Memoir

Language - English

Reviews

Oprah Winfrey delighted in the book and dedicated two scenes of The Oprah Winfrey Show to it. 

Maureen Callahan of the New York Post intensely scrutinized the book, calling it "narcissistic New Age perusing" and "the most exceedingly terrible in Western fetishization of Eastern idea and culture, guaranteed in its responses to existential issues that have puzzled minds more prominent than hers."

Likewise, she was reproachful of Oprah's attention on the book, just as Oprah's fans who appreciate the book, inquiring as to why her fans are "enjoying this senselessness" and why they aren't "clamoring for more weight with regards to Oprah's female writers". 

Katie Roiphe of Slate concurred with Egan about the strength of Gilbert's composition. In any case, she depicted the excursion as excessively phony: "excessively willed, excessively unsure."

She expressed that given the clear imitation of the excursion, her "love for Eat, Pray, Love is ... stealthy" however that "it's anything but a fantastically incredible seashore book."

The Washington Post's Grace Lichtenstein expressed that "the solitary thing amiss with this comprehensible, clever diary of a magazine essayist's yearlong journey across the world looking for joy and equilibrium is that it appears to be such a lot like a Jennifer Aniston Film." 

Lev Grossman of Time, nonetheless, commended the profound part of the book, expressing that "to find out about her battles with a 182-section Sanskrit serenade, or her (fruitful) endeavor to ruminate while being devoured by mosquitoes, is to occur as close as possible to illumination as a substitute."

He did, notwithstanding, concur with Roiphe that her composing periodically is by all accounts "making a decent attempt to be preferred; one feels the overemphasized system of her jokes." 

Lori Leibovich of Salon concurred with a few different commentators about the strength of Gilbert's narrating. She concurred with Egan too that Gilbert appears to have a limitless measure of karma, saying, "Her favorable luck appears to be boundless" and asking "Is it feasible for one individual to be this fortunate?" 

Diversion Weekly's Jessica Shaw said that "regardless of a couple wince commendable turns ... Gilbert's excursion is certainly worth taking."Don Lattin of the San Francisco Chronicle concurred with Egan that the story was most fragile while she was in India and scrutinized the total veracity of the book.

Barbara Fisher of The Boston Globe additionally adulated Gilbert's composition, expressing that "she depicts with extreme visual, discernible detail. She is the epic artist of euphoria." 

In mid-2010, the women's activist magazine Bitch distributed a basic survey and social editorial called "Eat, Pray, Spend." Authors Joshua Sanders and Diana Barnes-Brown composed that "Eat, Pray, Love isn't the main book of its sort, however, it's anything but an ideal illustration of the class of priv-lit: writing or media whose communicated objective is one of profound, existential, or philosophical illumination dependent upon ladies' diligent effort, responsibility, and persistence, yet whose genuine hindrances to section are fundamentally monetary."

The class, they contended, positions ladies as innately and profoundly defective and offers "no genuine answers for the cosmically high taxes—both monetary and social—that prohibit everything except the luckiest among us from partaking."

Personal Verdict

It's anything but a grand read. I adored the trustworthiness with which this diary is composed. There are times when the creator is a slight bit humiliated to uncover reality yet she does it in any case. The way she has shared her weaknesses in the book would cause you to feel that it's totally OK to be defective.

Additionally, taking a break for yourself in life to sort out your stuff is likewise OK. In case you're going through a tough time, pick this book and make arrangements as you read.

My Ratings for the book - 3 on 5 

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Written By - Vaidehee