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Title: Disappointing
Review: I was hopeful for this book--especially because it comes with a blurb by Ann Lammot on the cover, whose "Traveling Mercies" is a great read about finding God and faith. But "Eat, Pray, Love" doesn't deliver what I'd hoped. I got tired of the author telling me how many other people called her "cute" and how social and open and friendly she is and so on. She struck me as an ebullient fourth grader. Cute? Sure, but her brand of emotional immaturity doesn't wear so well on a thirty-something-year-old.A friend of mine (we read it in tandem) said, "Maybe this book is like that mantra [the author] had to say that she hated in India. Maybe I'll get something out of it if I just stick with it." Alas, neither of us found much reward.The writing is stellar, really: descriptive, strong. Elizabeth Gilbert can tell a story. But I never did fall in love with her. I didn't even fall into like with her. She remains separate, cute, and even worse: cute-sy throughout.
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