I was fully prepared to not like this book. Not for necessarily rational reasons - I've never read Eat, Love, Pray, and have refrained from doing so both because of the immense hype around the book and the message that in order to find yourself, you had to be someone who already had an immense amoun...
I'm in the minority of people who read EPL and had a lukewarm reaction to it, so I wasn't eager to read Committed at first. A few friends who are EPL devotees told me that Committed is nothing like EPL, so I gave it a shot. Perhaps it was due to the fact that I listened to the audiobook rather t...
At the end of Eat, Pray, Love, we know that author Elizabeth Gilbert has met a Brazilian gentleman named Felipe and fallen in love.Felipe is a pseudonym, but that's not the important point here. Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage is about what happens later between Elizabeth and Felipe. ...
This book drowned in discalimers. Before it even starts, the author throws in a lengthy discalimer, which basically says "I'm sorry, but this isn't 'Eat, Pray, Love' anymore." Even in her descriptions of people and cultures, she keeps interfering. She doesn't let her readers read, and she doesn't le...
So, I wasn't crazy about Eat, Pray, Love but I didn't hate it. I felt a bit like it talked down to the reader and I am always skeptical about spiritual manners. I saw this on a few recommended lists, but it wasn't until I started reading it that I realized it was the same author as EPL. I think i...
I really enjoy Liz Gilbert's style and humor. I found her examination of the history and culture of marriage quite fascinating. I like her candor in discussing her inner thoughts and fears. And as a 58-year-old single woman, I really appreciated her thoughts on single women, and on the value of what...
After my pretty negative reaction to the last 2/3rds of Eat, Pray, Love, I'm as surprised as you are that I even picked this book up. But 1) I'm actually very interested in reading about women who are skeptical of the institution of marriage/actively do not want to be married and 2) I thoroughly enj...
Ugh, I hated this book. I should have know, I hated EPL too. I really wanted to like EPL, I figured maybe I was missing something because everyone else really loved it and I just didn't get it because I'm not into meditation (which bored the crap out of me in that book.) So my thinking was, everyone...
The story of Elizabeth and Felipe continues. Since Felipe has been denied access to the US the two of them are now planning a wedding. This sounds romantic but for the two divorcees the decision was not an easy one.After I had read EAT, PRAY, LOVE I have been fooled a little by this sequel. I though...
About 90% of the book was like a dissertation on the institution of marriage. Granted it was the author's self-exploratory and coming to terms with the whole notion of commitment, but it was a rather long and drawn out monologue. Did not enjoy this quite as much as the more introspective 'Eat, Love,...
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