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Title: grow up
Review: Elizabeth Gilbert turns 35 during her year of self absorbed indulgence. Her time in Italy read more like that of a run away teenager eating, drinking and lusting for Italian men while missing the great opportunity to study the ancient civilization, art, religion and culture that exists in Rome. In India she talks obsessively about "her guru" (who we never meet) and the difficulty to unselfishly be introspective. Bali shows Elizabeth having so much sex she must reach for her collection of antibiotics. Her behavoir is immature and reckless. And, of course, she did all this on the publisher's dime - imagine had she genuinely taken this journey, kept diaries and THEN pitched it to her publisher.
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