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Title: One Dude's View
Review: I picked up this book out of curiosity as my wife was reading it at the time - it was well written and engaging in the technical sense, but I kept reading it for the big reveal, waiting for the author to pull back the curtain and let us in on the joke: "Ta da! I'm not really that narcissistic or self-indulgent!". It was not to be.Did you ever have that friend that went backpacking through Europe/Asia/South-America and came back as *that* person? You know, the one that wants to share with everyone their new found worldliness and appreciation for foreign cultures? As they hold you hostage in the corner, trying to convey the importance of every minutiae of their adventure to your increasingly wandering mind, you begin to realise that they are simply a self-centred bore who wants to dress up their fancy vacation in the guise of a shallow, faux-spiritual journey of the soul.No? Well, you're in luck. Elizabeth Gilbert can be that friend in 352 glorious pages!
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