Unfortunately I did not enjoy this book and i really thought I would. I could not get into it at all. I did not even finish it. I just couldn't.

This book has received great reviews but I thought it was so-so; I skipped half of the section on Italy because it was not interesting to me. All the whining and crying about her failed marriage wore a little thin. The sections on India and Indonesia were a little more appealing. And, I really did not need/want to know the details of her bladder infection after several encounters with her new boyfriend . . .

I am an avid reader and was really looking forward to reading this book. I found it really hard to get involved in I never made it past the first chapter it just didn't grab my interest.

As an English, I could find almost no literary value in this book. As an avid chick-lit reader, I had even more trouble with it. The main character is so self-involved and doesn't engage the reader whatsoever. She feels all too important and talks in cliches. Instead of empowering women, I feel like she stepped into stereotypes that otherwise could have been avoided.

I was so disappointed in this book. I looked forward to this book arriving on my doorstep and jumped right in , I waited to see the movie as I always do. The author was so ..... I guess self absorbed is the closest I can get - I literally found myself annoyed by the constant boo-hooing and self centered obsessing - especially by a woman who clearly had the good fortune and resources to take not one but three trips of a lifetime and still managed to boo hoo. Self discovery maybe , great for many I'm sure - just plain irritating to me - and even more bummed..... I was so sure I would enjoy it that I already bought the book that follows it. I am however on board with other reviewers , the movie was excellent , maybe even worth adding to any respectable chic flic collection.

I enjoyed the Italy part but was not into the beginning or the last two sections. It didn't captivate me and the only reason i pushed myself through it was because it was a book club book. I'm glad I read it, but only because I had wondered about it. The movie was nothing like the book and actually more enjoyable.

Book Pretty good book,could been better in many,many ways.But it's good for a bedtimevbook,to bore you to sleep aleast.

i wasn't a big fan of this big.

Great first section (Italy), then it just fizzeled out. Read it for book club and only 1/2 the people actually finished it. Very tough to get thru after that first section. If you do make it through, the ending is pretty good.

I think that this book is interesting depending on where you are in your life. My younger co-worker hated this book whereas I could relate to her issues with her husband and with trying to find herself and to find meaning in her life. I thoroughly enjoyed the Italy section. It was fun, light and vibrant. The part in India is much harder to get through but I think she learns a lot in that section and it's a person education. It might not click with everyone. I would recommend it to my friends who are in a quandary about their lives.

I work in a bookstore and read A LOT of books, especially biographies. I shied about from this book for a long time because it was so mainstream but when I began to see the previews for the Julie Roberts movie, I decided it was time to try it. Elizabeth Gilbert tells a wonderful story of discovery but it drags in many places. I flew through the Italy and Indonesia sections but the India section seemed to slow the overall pace of the book. This may have been intentional, especially when one considers that portion of her life story but it doesn't help the reader want to continue to the end. And the end is definitely worth the long journey to get there.

I liked it ok, I kept feeling like it was going in circles and not really changing all that much. I was hoping to love it so much I would want to read it again or even want to read the next one. But it didn't grab my attention that much!

Starting out I enjoyed this book however somewhere in reading it started to lose my interest. It seems that it took me twice as long to read this book than any other book.

I thought this was just ok. I thought it was upity and didn't really care for it.

i liked this book and the movie but the movie was better since it showed bali and the yoga retreat where elizabeth met the cool guy from texas.