Eat, Pray and Love received very severe and conflicted reviews when the book first came out. The synopsis didn't exactly knock my socks off and that's why I've yet to read it thus far. A real love/hate thing going on with that book based on initial reviews.

I'm only reading 2 books now and am totally transfixed: Arabs and Jews (Pulitzer Prize winner) by David K. Shipler

http://www.amazon.com/Arab-Jew-David-K- ... 902&sr=1-3


and the great classic (finally, heh): O Jerusalem By Larry Collins and Dominique LaPierre

Now I VERY BADLY cannot wait to read their other masterpiece: The Fifth Horseman. Oh boy! What a treat.

http://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Horseman-La ... 492&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/O-Jerusalem-Larry ... 727&sr=1-1

For people who have some interest in the Middle East, I highly recommend these, the others I may have mentioned and I can come up with eleventy-eleven more. Just ask.

lindad_amato wrote:I haven't read Eat, Pray, Love. It sounds too sappy. Kind of like it's precursor, Bridges of Madison County. Remember that hype a number of years ago?

OMG


After hearing how my mom described it, that is EXACTLY what I said "Sounds like Bridges of Madison County".

In that case, I know I will not read it. It seems to have been written solely for the purpose of commercialization.

I find this entire phenomenon amazing. 1,000 people love it and 500 people loathe it yet they've made a movie out of it with Julia Roberts on a book that's always had lukewarm ratings (at best) from the get-go.

I wondered where Julia went these last years - where did she go - overseas for mucho plastic surgery I thought she went into seclusion or worse, became very, very ill. No work that I know of. No photo-ops that I've seen. No ink in the gossip columns.

Instead we are fed a steady diet of swill on Lindsay Lohan and 50 other nobodies. Like I said, totally amazing.

Eat, Pray, Love is a true story, yes? The Bridges of Madison County is a novel, so there is a difference right there. I was never able to get through Bridges of Madison County, I was just totally annoyed by it. Eat, Pray, Love was more entertaining, but it bothered me, too, mostly because I was so jealous of the author! She spent four months eating everything in sight, but I guess she has a fast metabolism, because just one cupcake for me and I can't zip my jeans. And just being able to take off a whole year , how lucky is that? If I could have gotten over my envy I probably would have enjoyed the book more

rainbells wrote:Eat, Pray, Love is a true story, yes? The Bridges of Madison County is a novel, so there is a difference right there. I was never able to get through Bridges of Madison County, I was just totally annoyed by it. Eat, Pray, Love was more entertaining, but it bothered me, too, mostly because I was so jealous of the author! She spent four months eating everything in sight, but I guess she has a fast metabolism, because just one cupcake for me and I can't zip my jeans. And just being able to take off a whole year , how lucky is that? If I could have gotten over my envy I probably would have enjoyed the book more

I don't know if it is true or not, but I have to agree with you. I probably am a bit envious of the heroine. I know I would take full advantage of the year to travel if I were in her shoes. lol

If a guy had written this book, it would have been:

Eat, Love, Sleep.

If a guy had written this book, it would have been:

Eat, Love, Sleep.

Awwww. That's not fair. Men and women are both very diverse. Maybe the guys you have known.

seespotrun2008 wrote:

If a guy had written this book, it would have been:

Eat, Love, Sleep.

Awwww. That's not fair. Men and women are both very diverse. Maybe the guys you have known.

Lol. I can assure you, you are very confused and I have never "known" any men in that light. Just going by what the women at work complain/joke about.

Its ok. Sometimes we find something funny and when we tell the joke going on in our hear...........we find out no one else gets it or it just wasn't worth mentioning. Happens all the time. Don't be embarrassed.

I can assure you, you are very confused and I have never "known" any men in that light. Just going by what the women at work complain/joke about.

Don't be embarrassed.

This probably is not worth expanding on but I am not really sure what you mean by your first comment. And I am not embarrassed.