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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The film is better than the book, which probably won't make you feel better. It's all just a love letter from Elizabeth Gilbert to Elizabeth Gilbert. She sure loves how genius she thinks she is.

I can watch the film, but I cannot ever read that self-obsessed book again.[/quote]

OMG no the movie is the worst thing EVERRR

I LOVED the book when I read it at 22. I'm sure if I read it now I would roll my eyes hard. [/quote]

Whether people love this book or hate it tells you a lot about them and where they are in life. It's like a Rorschach test. [/quote]

I actually could see myself as potentially having liked it IF I had read it at 22.  At 35, with a little more perspective on life, marriage, and relationships, I thought it was awful. I thought she was awful. What a terrible person to walk out on an apparently very nice husband who loved her and wanted to work things out, just because she was bored. [/quote]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the book didn't she say she and the ex were at an impasse because he wanted kids and she realized that while she loved her nieces and nephews, the thought of becoming a mom was something she just couldn't do?  I'm a mom who always knew I wanted to be a mom, and yet I sympathize with this a lot.  If she knew deep down she didn't want to have children, wasn't it better that she let her husband go so he could have kids with a woman who wanted them?[/quote]

Yes, you are correct and I empathized with this too.

The other thing between them was that her first husband rarely worked. He was constantly reimagining himself - trying on new "careers" and a professional student. I'd think that after a while that would make me insane. I definitely couldn't have lived with that at all.

There were things about the book/movie that I liked/related to and other things that I totally didn't. I don't think it was a total waste of time. I think that if you asked 10 different people their impressions of the film you'd get 10 different answers. It's just one of those stories that strikes different nerves in different people.

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