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).
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......
發表於2024-06-26
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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...
評分放下:當你一覺醒來,感覺不再有熱情,不再有熱度,不再有火花,不再有信仰,那麼,勇敢地齣發吧。 靜默:不要用眼睛看世界,用心去看,你會更接近心中的神明。 平衡:去愛、去相信,追尋內心的答案,當雙腳再次觸碰到大地,你會走得真實而堅定。
評分放下:當你一覺醒來,感覺不再有熱情,不再有熱度,不再有火花,不再有信仰,那麼,勇敢地齣發吧。 靜默:不要用眼睛看世界,用心去看,你會更接近心中的神明。 平衡:去愛、去相信,追尋內心的答案,當雙腳再次觸碰到大地,你會走得真實而堅定。
評分還沒看完,是被她開頭的無助描寫吸引的。同事看見書上的一句話“不想結婚”,而把本書界定為會教壞我的書,有些冤枉瞭
評分說到睡前讀物,《Eat pray love》絕對是極好的選擇。邊讀就邊想,一定要和你們分享這本書,但看到一半時,就送給瞭朋友。等到卓越再送書來,半個月已經過去瞭。可惜的是,朋友卻無心看這本書。不禁感嘆:有心栽花,花不開。我以為可以緩解她糾結許久的心事,卻不料並無裨益。 ...
圖書標籤: 旅行 女性 英文原版 人生 小說 外國文學 愛情 美國文學
額,讀下來就覺得這書文筆好差啊= = 電影和書都看瞭幾遍瞭,除去矯情的主人公光環橋段以外,在意大利和巴厘島一路的見聞還是很有意思的,描寫也很細膩。主人公穿越瞭大半個地球,終於找準瞭自己的位置。我們都不是萬能的,也沒那麼弱不禁風,安。
評分韻兒所贈。
評分: K837.125.6/G464-2
評分真誠而又直接,俺喜歡。而且太高級的詞兒不多,不用翻字典,太雞凍瞭! 熱烈慶祝本人讀完人生中第一本超過400頁的英文小說!!!
評分第二次看瞭,意大利還沒看完,棄瞭。女主真的挺作。
Eat, Pray, Love 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載