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Title: What is "spiritual" about this book?
Review: I agree with the reviewers who said that Gilbert's writing is "dishonest" - it's as if she deliberately dumbed down her experiences in order to make Oprah's book list and to sell a lot of copies of this marginally written shallow book.Even her experience in Italy is sort of depressing. THAT is hedonistic pleasure and re-awakening? Her life before her journey appears to be identical to her life during the jouurney- being paid to travel and write about it in a way that appeals to the masses - essentially saying nothing at all. And how are any of her actions or beliefs spiritual? She is more self-obsessed than a teenager and I was sad and embarrased for her.I should have been scared off when I saw it was a best-seller. It's not entirely awful because it's amusing in places but ultimately not worth it.
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