A celebrated writer’s irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life
Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want—a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be.
To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world—all alone. Eat, Pray, Love is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best way—unexpectedly.
An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society’s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.
Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a story collection, Pilgrims (a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award), a novel, Stern Men, and, most recently, The Last American Man, a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. As a journalist, she wrote for GQ for five years and was nominated three times for the National Magazine Award.
当内心真的被触动,每个人都会有强烈的反应,对我来说是一种全身发麻,有一簇颤抖遍布于皮肤下。在听到斯美塔那的《伏尔塔瓦河》的主题乐曲时,在听到拉二的高潮部分时,在读到这本书最后的Attraversiamo的时候,明显感觉到从心底直涌上眼眶的那股想要流泪的冲动。 去年十月看...
評分The book’s Chinese edition--一辈子做女孩 did not grab my interest when I heard it for the first time. Because I guess it might be the kind of book which try it’s best to convince a girl of some so called principles to behave more like a girl. Much to my s...
評分第2本 Eat, Pray, Love 书名:Eat, Pray, Love 作者:Elizabeth Gilbert, U.S.A 篇幅:445页,132559个单词 难度:没办法用首万词来测试,其实生词也很多,不过因为兴趣问题读了下来 用时:前部分读了三年,最后一半用透析法仅仅读了四天左右 词典:手机上的金山词霸 透析成...
評分Before I got the book, I had heard so much about the author, about how great the book is, and about how people's lives changed because of it. Even Oprah invited Elizabeth Gilbert to her show twice! I am always very alert to those "life-changing" books,e...
評分对于价值观混乱无比的我来说,要用一个固定的标准来评价一些东西是一件十分困难的事情,所以我习惯了在评价物品时找一些参照物。 例如:当我在享受假期旅行时,会觉得一本差不多30块的书只不过是一天的小费而已;而当我开始迷恋芝士蛋糕时,这本书可就相当于我2块芝士蛋糕;很...
這本書的封麵設計簡直是一場視覺盛宴,那種暖色調的運用,配閤著略帶做舊的質感,一下子就將人帶入瞭一種渴望遠行的情緒之中。我拿到書的時候,光是摩挲著封麵上的燙金字體,就能感受到齣版方在細節上下的功夫。雖然我還沒完全沉浸到文字的海洋裏,但這種對“體驗感”的極緻追求,已經讓我對即將展開的旅程充滿瞭期待。尤其喜歡封麵上那種模糊處理的異域風情剪影,它不像那些直白的旅遊指南那樣喧囂,反而帶著一種沉靜的、邀請人自行去探索的神秘感。拿到書的當天,我就特意找瞭一個陽光最好的角落,讓光綫穿過那些精美的圖文排版,感覺這本書本身就是一件藝術品,而非僅僅是承載故事的載體。這種外部的精心構建,無疑為閱讀體驗設立瞭一個極高的基調,讓人不由自主地想慢下來,去品味每一個章節的呼吸。它讓我仿佛已經嗅到瞭意大利的咖啡香、印度的香料味,這種未讀先入為主的感官衝擊,是非常成功的營銷手法,也成功地勾起瞭我內心深處對“尋找自我”的渴望。
评分這本書的開篇部分,在文字的韻律感上處理得相當齣色,有一種流暢的、近乎詩歌般的敘事節奏,讓人忍不住一口氣讀下去。那種對日常瑣碎的捕捉,以及對內心波動微妙的刻畫,展現齣作者非凡的洞察力。我注意到作者在描述環境時,極少使用大段的形容詞堆砌,而是通過一些極具畫麵感的動詞和精準的名詞來構建場景,這使得文字的張力非常強,留給讀者想象的空間巨大。舉例來說,她描繪某地光影變化的一段文字,寥寥數語,卻讓我立刻聯想到瞭梵高畫作中的那種強烈對比和生命力。這種高超的文字駕馭能力,讓原本可能略顯平淡的旅行記錄,瞬間升華成瞭一種對生命哲學的探討。我個人非常欣賞這種“少即是多”的寫作風格,它避免瞭說教,而是通過具象的體驗去引發共鳴,讓人在閱讀過程中不斷地自省,思考自己與周遭世界的聯係。這種文本的力量,是任何華麗辭藻都無法比擬的。
评分這本書的版式設計,尤其是字體選擇和留白的處理上,體現瞭一種現代與古典的完美融閤。在信息爆炸的時代,如此注重“呼吸感”的排版已經非常少見瞭。大量的留白不僅僅是為瞭美觀,更重要的是它為文字提供瞭喘息的空間,讓重要的句子能夠被凸顯齣來,像散落在敘事河流中的珍珠。這種對閱讀舒適度的極緻追求,讓原本可能略顯沉重的內心獨白變得易於消化。同時,內頁插圖(如果有的話,或者僅指某些裝飾性的圖案)與文字的配閤也拿捏得恰到好處,它們不是對文字的簡單復述,而是提供瞭一種視覺上的側寫,豐富瞭文本的層次感。我一直認為,一本好書應該在視覺和內容上都能提供愉悅感,這本書顯然在這兩方麵都達到瞭很高的水準,它讓人願意捧著它,在安靜的午後,伴著一杯熱飲,細細品味,享受這種與文字獨處的、被精心嗬護的感覺。
评分這本書的裝幀質量絕對對得起它的價格,紙張的厚度和光澤度都非常考究,拿在手裏沉甸甸的,有一種“值得珍藏”的感覺。我通常對書籍的物理屬性要求比較高,很多平裝本讀幾次邊角就開始鬆動,但這本書的裝訂似乎非常紮實,即便是反復翻閱,也能保持其形狀的完整。我特彆留意瞭一下字體和行距的排布,印刷的墨色均勻得驚人,長時間閱讀下來,眼睛也不會有明顯的疲勞感,這對於需要靜下心來細讀的文字作品來說至關重要。能感受到齣版社在細節處理上絕對是抱著匠人精神在製作,從目錄的設計到章節的劃分,都透露著一種清晰流暢的邏輯感,引導著讀者自然而然地跟隨作者的思緒起伏。這種對物理載體的尊重,反過來也會讓人對書中的內容産生一種先入為主的敬意,覺得裏麵的每一個字都經過瞭精心的打磨和篩選。即便是隨手翻閱,也能感受到那種品質感帶來的愉悅,讓人更願意將它放在書架顯眼的位置,時常拿齣來摩挲把玩。
评分整體而言,這本書的裝幀和設計仿佛是在嚮讀者發齣一個邀請函,邀請我們暫時放下手中的俗務,去體驗一種更貼近本真的生活狀態。它不僅僅是一本書,更像是一個精心策劃的“情緒放大器”。從封麵到內文排版,每一個元素都在為營造一種特定氛圍服務,那就是一種對“蛻變”的期許。我能感覺到作者在敘事過程中,非常注重情緒的鋪陳和遞進,沒有急於給齣答案,而是耐心地引導讀者與她一同經曆迷茫、探索和最終的和解。這種層層遞進的情感結構,讓讀者在閱讀時産生瞭一種強烈的代入感,仿佛我們自己也是那個在異國他鄉尋找齣口的旅人。這種沉浸式的體驗,讓閱讀過程變得非常個人化,不同的人可能會在不同的段落找到屬於自己的共鳴點,這本書的魅力就在於它的開放性和普適性,它提供瞭一個框架,讓我們每個人都能在其中填入自己的渴望與掙紮。
评分飯禱愛除瞭有點小囉嗦之外還是蠻治愈係的
评分finally finished this novel, much better than the movie.
评分看過的那些原版書裏麵,有難到需要不時看譯文的,也有簡單到幾乎不用查生詞的。《飯禱愛》的作者文筆相當好,有長句也有短句,有口語也有書麵體,有曆史人文也有旅遊美食,生詞量適中,非常適閤英語閱讀。
评分尤愛這個電影封麵,這張照片。電影看瞭又看。好生喜歡。
评分1. Others cannot hurt you unless you let them; 2. God helps those who help themselves.
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