HOW LONG IS THE EAT PRAY LOVE AUDIOBOOK MOVIE
There's no question that I think about her book - and the mediocre Hollywood movie resulting from it - differently than I otherwise might, because I have no doubts about the genuineness and generosity of Liz's intentions. (She was then married to the man she leaves at the beginning of "Eat, Pray, Love.") She's a wonderful writer and an even better human being.
(A personal note before continuing: I knew Elizabeth Gilbert some years ago, when we worked together at Spin magazine. She's aware that her personal and literary odyssey contains potential contradictions: The tale of a well-connected New York writer traveling the globe on somebody else's dime and sampling an array of seemingly disconnected experiences might strike many people as a symptom of our cultural dislocation and commodity fetishism, not a cure. Gilbert is a sharp and amusing prose stylist and an openhearted critic of her own foibles and failings. Every move in this dance is so well rehearsed that none of it can escape cliché: not the original complaint about our shallowness and materialism, not the presumptive moral high ground and false modesty of the evangelist-observer, not the exaggerated, Bill O'Reilly-style scorn of those who feel their iPhoned and Twitterized lifestyle is under attack.Īs almost everyone reading this will already know, "Eat, Pray, Love" is the autobiographical and presumably truthful story of a woman who "pulls a geographic" (as some 12-steppers say) on an epic scale, fleeing first her troubled marriage and then her relationship with a hot, younger boyfriend for a year-long voyage of self-discovery to Italy, India and Bali. There is nothing affluent Westerners of the information-economy class like better than being told that our lives lack soulfulness, sensuality and a sense of purpose - except, perhaps, for heaping derision on those who bring us this news. The enormous success of Elizabeth Gilbert's travel memoir "Eat, Pray, Love" is one of those paradoxes that pretty much define modern life.
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