Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a story collection, Pilgrims (a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award); a novel, Stern Men; and The Last American Man (a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award).

出版者:Penguin Books

作者:[美] Elizabeth Gilbert

页数:464

出版时间:2008-6-1

价格:GBP 6.70

装帧:Perfect Paperback

isbn号码:9780143113997

图书标签:旅行女性英文原版人生小说外国文学爱情美国文学

The only thing wrong with this readable, funny memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure and balance is that it seems so much like a Jennifer Aniston movie. Like Jen, Liz is a plucky blond American woman in her thirties with no children and no major money worries. As the book opens, she is going through a really bad divorce and subsequent stormy rebound love affair. Awash in tears in the middle of the night on the floor of the bathroom, she begins to pray for guidance, “you know —— like, to God.” God answers. He tells her to go back to bed. I started seeing the Star headlines： “Jen's New Faith！” “What Really Happened at the Ashram！” “Jen's Brazilian Sugar Daddy —— Exclusive Photos！” Please understand that Gilbert, whose earlier nonfiction book, The Last American Man, portrayed a contemporary frontiersman, is serious about her quest. But because she never leaves her self-deprecating humor at home, her journey out of depression and toward belief lacks a certain gravitas. The book is composed of 108 short chapters (based on the beads in a traditional Indian japa mala prayer necklace) that often come across as scenes in a movie. And however sad she feels or however deeply she experiences something, she can't seem to avoid dressing up her feelings in prose that can get too cute and too trite. On the other hand, she convinced me that she acquired more wisdom than most young American seekers —— and did it without peyote buttons or other classic hippie medicines. When Gilbert determines that she requires a year of healing, her first stop is Italy, because she feels she needs to immerse herself in a language and culture that worships pleasure and beauty. This sets the stage for a “Jen's Romp in Rome,” where she studies Italian and, with newfound friends, searches for the best pizza in the world......

读后感

当内心真的被触动，每个人都会有强烈的反应，对我来说是一种全身发麻，有一簇颤抖遍布于皮肤下。在听到斯美塔那的《伏尔塔瓦河》的主题乐曲时，在听到拉二的高潮部分时，在读到这本书最后的Attraversiamo的时候，明显感觉到从心底直涌上眼眶的那股想要流泪的冲动。 去年十月看...  

我相信，这世上太多事情，太多人与人之间的际遇，是讲求缘分的。 我不得不说的是，中国出版业的编辑，毁掉了不少非常不错的原版书。无论是编辑对原著书的精神的理解，以及拿着低稿费草草了事的翻译们，都是对原著有着某种程度上的曲解。但是，话又说回来，他们也的确是不容易...  

对于价值观混乱无比的我来说，要用一个固定的标准来评价一些东西是一件十分困难的事情，所以我习惯了在评价物品时找一些参照物。 例如：当我在享受假期旅行时，会觉得一本差不多30块的书只不过是一天的小费而已；而当我开始迷恋芝士蛋糕时，这本书可就相当于我2块芝士蛋糕；很...  

The first time I read this book dates back to 2012, when I was still in the United States, I borrowed it from the library but it was a busy time so I only finished about one-third of the book and returned it. However, it is so amazing and interesting that I...  

用户评价

如果这种题材，并不是以一个完美男人为结局该多好。

一个更心灵鸡汤味儿的《遇见未知世界》。。。治愈系的风格，就是写的太墨迹了。坚持看完主要是为了练阅读速度。

Italy≥India>>Indonesia. 很长很厚，看了好久，不过还算值得。A road to the soul.

The appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one’s humanity. 療癒大師

The appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one’s humanity. 療癒大師