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Title: A genuine page ripper.
Review: Because my reading group chose to read this book, I made every effort to finish it, but right around Indonesia, I just couldn't pick it up one more time. I gave the book away, relieved to be free of this drivel, but hoping that I had not cast a curse on the generous soul who took it off my hands. Throughout the two-thirds of the book I managed to get through, the word "insipid" just kept popping up in my mind, like so many soap bubbles on summer's day. It was bad enough that Ms. Gilbert was paid 200,000 dollars to make the journey on which the book is based, but worse yet, that the result of her narcissistic meanderings was considered suitable for publication, afterward. Much like the book, A Million Little Pieces, Eat, Pray, Love, is mostly an unverifiable account of a woman's journey to enlightenment, a journey where she is--surprise, surprise--the hero, page-after-page. I think we all wish we could get Ms. Gilbert's gig.
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