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......
还没看完,是被她开头的无助描写吸引的。同事看见书上的一句话“不想结婚”,而把本书界定为会教坏我的书,有些冤枉了
評分很早以前写的读后感,不算是书评,不过还是给挪过来吧。 看完了《一辈子做女孩》,觉得好像和这个汉语译书名没多大关系,还不如用英文名《eat,pray,love》,更能准确直观地表达出书的每一部分所描写的内容。虽然我觉得作者好像有点精神分裂症,但是看完这本书,还是觉得心灵也...
評分Before I got the book, I had heard so much about the author, about how great the book is, and about how people's lives changed because of it. Even Oprah invited Elizabeth Gilbert to her show twice! I am always very alert to those "life-changing" books,e...
評分 評分我相信,这世上太多事情,太多人与人之间的际遇,是讲求缘分的。 我不得不说的是,中国出版业的编辑,毁掉了不少非常不错的原版书。无论是编辑对原著书的精神的理解,以及拿着低稿费草草了事的翻译们,都是对原著有着某种程度上的曲解。但是,话又说回来,他们也的确是不容易...
The people you meet who affect your life, and the ups and downs you experience, help to create who you are and who you become.
评分上班偷閑三個月讀完,是時候考慮辭職去泰國旅行瞭呢|2014.10 Thailand√
评分期望太高,結果反倒失望。估計電影能更精彩些。
评分一個更心靈雞湯味兒的《遇見未知世界》。。。治愈係的風格,就是寫的太墨跡瞭。堅持看完主要是為瞭練閱讀速度。
评分The appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one’s humanity. 療癒大師
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