Dear Liz Gilbert,
Well, I am wrapping up the India portion of your book and I must say it was not as exciting as I would have hoped. I thoroughly enjoyed the Italy portion--your journey for happiness was fun to read about and there were so many funny experiences! I did enjoy parts of the India portion of the story--some of your reflections were so insightful and refreshing. However, the plot throughout these months was overall very slow and was not characterized by funny events like Italy. Instead, your chapters were centered mostly around the many long hours you spent in meditation and the powerful experiences you had. While these are definitely interesting experiences to hear about, reading about these similar occurrences over and over again started to feel very repetitive. Perhaps I didn't enjoy it as much because my religious beliefs are very different from yours--it's fun to learn about other perspectives but in the end I simply disagree with many of the beliefs expressed by you and your guru.
I am, however, really looking forward to the Indonesia portion of the book, as you have summarized that leg of the trip with the word "Love" in the title. That has always been one of my favorite part of books and movies-the love story (the other part being humor), so I have a feeling I'll enjoy reading it a lot more! I still love your book and your writing style, I just felt that the descriptions of your time in India became slightly repetitive and boring after awhile.
Can't wait to keep reading!
~A-Rod
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Really interesting how you liked one section over the other. Was it just because of the experiences the author had, or was it the fact that she was in those places that interested you? I think everyone would have a different opinion about what would be interesting, and so the author was right to put a multitude of sections in the story for the reader to enjoy and judge. I liked how in depth you were about your opinion.
-Dani
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