All things that I enjoy - of course my order is Eat, Love, Pray of course. So sufficient to say I really enjoyed the book. But I must confess since I'd picked up the book after the movie promos of "Eat Pray Love" were already airing - Julia Roberts was narrating the whole story to me - like you always have an image of the author and the protagonist in your mind. So I didn't have too much left for imagination this time - I could almost hear Julia Roberts voice too!
The Italy journey was described as only a true gourmand can! And you hardly find a book that can talks about Italy without talking about Milan and fashion...so this is really different. And the thought of just learning a language without a purpose and practicing it with so much gusto makes me also want to find a language which I want to learn!
The India journey is amazing especially for the struggles with meditation and search for peace. For someone who has always felt so uncomfortable with meditation and an inability to get my mind still for even a minute - its good to know that everyone struggles similarly. Of course I'm yet to find an author who can do justice to India in a way that it truly deserves. It more than poverty, spirituality and vegetarian food, but that's of course a discussion for another day. Infact when I started reading the book, I too was going through these strange moods and loneliness and it got me surprisingly calm at the end of the it.
The funny part is when I read about Bali, I believed everything just the way it was described. And then maybe I thought all the places are also much more - of course its just a very individual way of seeing it! So Bali was fun too , but there wasn't much of a personal realisation from it. But for the die hard romantic that I am - I expected a little from the Love part of the book, but of course not chicklit...its mature love and of course its real - its not fiction!!
So all in all - a fun read and since for the first time I actually had the movie version protagonist reading out the book to me - Look forward to seeing the film!!!
2 comments:
Hey Manasi,
I checked out your blog after I saw it listed on your FB account. Guess what I am reading "Eat Pray & Love" and after every sentence of yours my mind went"Ditto", "Exactly!" esp the part on Julia narrating the whole story, didn't get a chance to develop protagonist's character the way I usually do. I purposely didn't want to see the movie before I read the book, bcoz I always feel the movies are a big let down after reading the book, after all how much of ~200 pages or so are you going to cram into 60-90 mins of the movie!?
Nevertheless loving the book and I think my fav part of the book is Bali :)
How've you been otherwise?
Care,
Manisha
Hey Manisha...we should exchange more notes on books we read since our comments seem to match!! Thanks for reading the post! Did you finish the book?
How have you been? I'm doing well!!
Cheers, Manasi
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