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Title: Read, Read, Read!
Review: I wasn't enthused when my book club chose this. The travel memoir as tale of self-discovery has been done. But reading Elizabeth Gilbert is like catching up with your funniest, most sensitive friend. Unlike other reviewers, I really didn't need her to offer up any post-divorce wisdom, observations on Indian poverty, or anthropological insights on the Balinese. I can get that elsewhere. This book entertains. Yes, she can come off as self-indulgent (claiming to pass on meeting the Dali Lama -- as if). But I couldn't help liking her and I thoroughly enjoyed her company. This is a good, fun, summer read. Maybe the title misleads; wisdom seekers can skip it.
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