spicyayam
Well-Known Member
I thought this was a funny review of the Eat, pray love book on the ABC news website.
"It’s travel porn for those of us chained to our laptops in perpetuity, but in an utterly unique way, it’s freedom porn, too. Who amongst us hasn’t wanted to do what Gilbert did: secure a book advance, leave the ex-husband/boyfriend behind, and go to three of the most beautiful places in the world in an attempt to lift our depression?"
"..when I read the book, I was a 23-year-old, paying out the nose to live in a sixth-floor walk-up, and had just been dumped by a guy I was in love with. Where was my yearlong trip to Italy, India, and Bali, huh? Gilbert’s fairy tale was nothing but obnoxious to me—just a lucky woman rubbing her success in our faces."
"It’s travel porn for those of us chained to our laptops in perpetuity, but in an utterly unique way, it’s freedom porn, too. Who amongst us hasn’t wanted to do what Gilbert did: secure a book advance, leave the ex-husband/boyfriend behind, and go to three of the most beautiful places in the world in an attempt to lift our depression?"
"..when I read the book, I was a 23-year-old, paying out the nose to live in a sixth-floor walk-up, and had just been dumped by a guy I was in love with. Where was my yearlong trip to Italy, India, and Bali, huh? Gilbert’s fairy tale was nothing but obnoxious to me—just a lucky woman rubbing her success in our faces."
