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

这是一个问题。 按照鲁迅先生的说法，女人身上的女儿性和母性是天性，妻性是逼出来的。 原书名倒是颇为直白，吃，祈祷，爱，象什么？难道不象嚼着薯片躺在沙发上和男友看电视的小女孩吗？ 女人要是不做一个真正意义上的妻子，那就只有回归自然的天性，要么做女孩，要么做母亲。...  

The book’s Chinese edition--一辈子做女孩 did not grab my interest when I heard it for the first time. Because I guess it might be the kind of book which try it’s best to convince a girl of some so called principles to behave more like a girl. Much to my s...  

迄今为止，对这本书最不满意的就是中文译名，一辈子做女孩。如果有的时候对书的名字拿捏的不是很准的话，不如直接按字面翻译，可能结果要好一些。不过，除了名字之外，其他整本书的翻译都很灵，看起来很舒服。 我想，书的作者不仅仅是想要女孩般干净，年轻，宁静的心态，更是...  

说到睡前读物，《Eat pray love》绝对是极好的选择。边读就边想，一定要和你们分享这本书，但看到一半时，就送给了朋友。等到卓越再送书来，半个月已经过去了。可惜的是，朋友却无心看这本书。不禁感叹：有心栽花，花不开。我以为可以缓解她纠结许久的心事，却不料并无裨益。 ...  

补充一下本书作者在TED的演讲，这个演讲在TED近千个演讲中排名前三(基于观众“Favorite”投票)，尤其后半部分讲得极好，Elizabeth是很有慧根的那种人，这在她的文字和演讲里多有体现，下面是上周刚翻好的中文字幕版本： http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/chi_hans/elizabeth_gilb...  

用户评价

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。

第二次看了，意大利还没看完，弃了。女主真的挺作。

很多地方是不能忍受的无趣和狗血的，但是很多地方又很美好的平静。

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。

Liz is an emotional person,but pls believe urself more than mantras...pls pls~~at least,live in AmericaAustraliaBrazilBali,,,,it only belongs to Capitalism