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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Pretentious & self-absorbed author breaks sacred vow of marriage and pursues a journey of carnal excess in a vain attempt to find spiritual fulfillment. (8/13/2010)
The book is beautifully written, but I found the author/protagonist shallow, self-absorbed and pretentious. I was turned off at the opening, and reviewer Wanjugu nailed it when she wrote “The only thing that I could not get past is her leaving the marriage, and that she did not understand why her husband who thought she would never leave him could not forgive her! Many people say it was courageous for her to leave him, but the word selfish kept coming to my mind. Also thought about the DOUBLE STANDARDS in the American culture because a man who leaves his wife because he is sad in the marriage I bet would not sell so many books."
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