Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks Gilbert's a tool. Cheryl Strayed is another one.

Me too. Although I thought the movie Wild was better than the Eat Pray Love movie.

Her other books are quite different from this one. I wouldn't write them off.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

I also thought the book was self centered and narcissistic, which is why I have no interest in seeing the movie, or reading anything else she writes!

I read a couple of pages of the book, and it happened to be the part where she told her husband she was leaving him. She just seemed so unconcerned with his feelings that I was horrified. I never understood the "phenomena" of the book/movie.

This sums it up nicely

http://www.stereogum.com/1765909/the-hunt-for-the-worst-movie-of-all-time-eat-pray-love/vg-loc/videogum/

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks Gilbert's a tool. Cheryl Strayed is another one.

Hated this movie with a passion. The only reason we stuck it out at the theater was that we saw at the Avalon and I had a big glass of wine to make it almost bearable. What a smug narcissist that woman is.

Anonymous wrote:She needs the guise of the journey to justify why she married a man in Bali.

She did not do that. She did begin a relationship with a man in Bali but they had no intentions of marrying at all until years later when he tried to move to the U.S. and could not. She moved to Brazil with him for a year to get it straightened out and ultimately the only way they could live in the U.S. Together was if they married so they did. This was at least 3-5 years after the events in Eat Pray Love occurred.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:She needs the guise of the journey to justify why she married a man in Bali.

I'm PP, btw.

She needs the guise of the journey to justify why she married a man in Bali.

I'm another 20 minutes in, and it's not getting any better. She's completely narcissistic. Why doesn't she just skip the traveling and get a fucking shrink already??

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.

I love a "ditch the man and find yourself" story as much as the next feminist, but I'm halfway through this movie and it just sucks. The woman is a depressed, self-centered, indecisive wacko. Please tell me it'll get better off I keep watching?