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Like the previous poster, I've read Eat Pray Love too. I wasn't expecting much. I think I am like most readers of salon --judging by the letters at least -- a secular lefty intellectual. So a book about a middle class white woman's spiritual awakening is something I would never pick up in a million years. Sounds too much like something Dr Phil would be hawking. But I've loved everything else I've ever read by Gilbert -- Last American Man, her GQ articles, Pilgrims -- so I pre-ordered it from amazon and read it over the weekend.
Like the old movie poster says, I laughed, I cried. I thanked God I wasn't reading it on a transatlantic flight because my alternate guffaws and tears would have been really annoying to my neighbors for 8 hours. It didn't make me want to take up yoga or run away to Bali, but it made me think about my own life, my own choices, my own compromises. If a book can do that and entertain at the same time, I'm pretty happy.
