After
a long time, I am writing a review… In fact, after a long time have
read a book worth reviewing – Eat Pray Love… Not that it is a classic or
must read… But it just is closer to my heart in many terms…
Title:
Eat, Pray, Love
ISBN: 0143038419
(ISBN13: 9780143038412
Author:
Elizabeth Gilbert
Genre: Memoir
Setting: Italy, India, Bali
Simply
I loved the way the term GOD has been dealt with… My philosophy of God
is also more similar to Liz’s, maybe less compulsive and more forgiving…
But that’s how God is supposed to be… I hate the clutter around the
term GOD and since there was none found in her world, things seemed more
acceptable…
Secondly, the lucid style in her narration
that wasn’t too hard to imagine, yet very pleasant… Her stay at Bali as
well as India were just as fresh in our mind as hers… I simply loved
the cheeky Richard from Texas and the plumber/poet though they had not
much to give the story in terms of substance or the usual clichés…
Wayan
and her simple daughter would easily touch anybody’s heart but the
reality in them, in terms of being practical enough to squeeze whatever
one could from Liz, was much needed in the “too good to be story”…
Because this what is the real life is all about, isn’t it?
But
again a year taken as sabbatical, is too much to dream of even, so I am
happy enough for Liz… God knows none of us could afford it…
Bottom-line:
I loved it – not for the writing style or for the wonderful language or
any of the technical stuff – but for the realism maintained in an
unrealistic environment… J I could not stop imagining Julia Roberts in
every scene, even when I have not seen the film yet, So definitely an
“one time read” rating for the surreal fairytale…