I really loved this book's first third, then I hooked up with the author (Elizabeth Gilbert) on youtube and this turned me off, like; right off. It's a memoir and I'd shaped an image of the central character, only to be disappointed when I saw and heard her in-the-real. THEN, having forgotten about her and her cheesy publicity interview videos, I fell in love with the book again while following her through her awakening in an ashram in India.Why is it a good read? Mostly I like her unique approach to the topic of God (not a personal favourite to chat or think or write about) and devotion and prayer and ... all that jive (I find myself embarrassingly inarticulate on the subject of spirituality, though I do dig it). My friend G has read this book too, she liked. I asked her how she felt about all the God reference and what she thought of the author's approach to God. G and I are not very alike/quite alike: she can't remember God being mentioned. So, I suppose EG's commentary on the topic of The Big 'G' must be pretty light on, because my friend, She Who Looks Hot in Denim 'G', didn't notice it. Fear not then heathen, this book though doused in God-stuff, it will not burn your retina.
When a very strong Americanism is audible in the tone of a narrative, I tend to shy away, but EG holds me in just enough to sometimes only-kinda notice her self-deprecation New Yorker sense of humour. You know how Americans tend to make something funny out of stating or overstating the obvious, longwindedly so, rendering it not funny at all, even annoying? That odd soap-box kinda mode of funniness?? Yeah, well sometimes you gotta dodge it in EAT PRAY LOVE, but mostly, she's great company.
5 frank folks find it in their hearts to say::
o no! How embarrassing. I have been outed as one vague MF!!
I have to add that even on further, more casual probing I can't remember that much about this book at all - this book I read a month ago, two? That is weird.
And the most I do have is from the final third.
hello dude!
you have not been hung as a vague MF ... just as a person who is not so hooked on the G work (unlike me, for whatever reason...maybe it's my obsession with death ... had I mentioned that to you ever??). You not vague. You, on a more positive level have been outed as looking HOT in denim (jeans).
Want me to take the G reference out??
Or perhaps write you back in as being worldly and not-vague??
love and kisses...
D
LOL it is all so OK - very hilarious I thought - and you know, the denim ref. smoothed it out v nicely. :}
My death obsession manifests in a passion for rotting things, and skull collections - such a bloody typical earth-sign incarnation eh?
xxxx g
ahh, yes very earth sign.
you make me laugh.
i have some thoughts for you.
1. think more about tassie map-book idea.
2. Have you thought any more about Tassie hand made knitted garments, granny sweat shop?? (I have and think perhaps it wouldnt be a bad idea to write a business plan ... any thoughts??)
3. let's plan next knitting circle meeting.
4.simon gave me another italian national team t-shirt...
thinking thinking thinking . . . x
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