Hulyo 1, 2016

Eat Pray Love... pick 2.

"I am separating from the man whom many of you know as 'Felipe' — the man whom I fell in love with at the end of the EAT PRAY LOVE journey," says Elizabeth Gilbert.

Oh, I'm sure the new story is good for another memoir. There'll probably be new love in it too. If you fell for the first one, I'm sure you'll fall for the next one. Your love affair with bullshit memoirs will go on.

51 komento:

HoodlumDoodlum ayon kay ...

The word "memoirs" was unnecessary, Professor.

Women love bullshit. That's science.

Oh, men love some bullshit, too, but 1.)it's a different sort of bullshit and 2.) men don't love it so deeply nor so well.

harrogate ayon kay ...

Ouch!

Earnest Prole ayon kay ...

zactly

rehajm ayon kay ...

Me-yow!

Otto ayon kay ...

$$$$$$$$

Mrs. X ayon kay ...

I couldn't understand the wild love affair many of my friends had with this book. I didn't make it past page 10. Self-celebratory crap, badly written.

Ignorance is Bliss ayon kay ...

Eat Pray Love... pick 2.

Eat & Love.

rhhardin ayon kay ...

Julia Roberts fans do well to skip right to the end of Eat Pray Love after the beginning. There's a lot, really a lot, of boring girl stuff in the middle.

Go back to Notting Hill, is my advice, and skip the whole Eat Pray Love thing.

It's curious that Roberts represents the women in general in NH but Grant doesn't represent men in general.

Roberts in EPL represents your crazy ex-girlfriend.

Sydney ayon kay ...

Pick Love and Pray. Nourish the soul.

madAsHell ayon kay ...

I'd like to believe the author had an epiphany, and realized her husband was full of shit.
No, instead it appears that she has fallen for another line of bullshit.

traditionalguy ayon kay ...

Oh, don't be so cynical. A woman's emotions are her reality. That's about it.

Wince ayon kay ...

I suppose at a certain age it becomes "eat, pray... shit, if you can".

Laslo Spatula ayon kay ...

Eat Pray Love.

Lather Rinse Repeat.

I am Laslo.

OGWiseman ayon kay ...

Sure sign of a crap writer: An unnecessary "whom" in the middle of a sentence just to sound posh. It's not a who/whom distinction, take the word out and the sentence becomes stronger.

Bob Ellison ayon kay ...

For me, the Hugh Grant character in Notting Hill is very real. Many men, probably most of us, are hopeless romantics. That moment when he says to the Julia Roberts character something like "can I say no?" draws blood.

Birches ayon kay ...

This post is why I read Althouse.

Comanche Voter ayon kay ...

Find Him; Fool Him; Feed Him; Shred Him; Shed Him.



Sort of a black widow approach here. Metaphorically speaking first she mates, then she kills. All for another book.

Ignorance is Bliss ayon kay ...

Laslo Spatula said...

Lather Rinse Repeat.

Usually Laslo's comments are both wildly offensive and downright creepy. At least the best of them are. Yet this one is neither offensive nor creepy yet hits it out of the park.

I am not Laslo. ( Though sometimes, late a night, I dress up and pretend that I am... )

MadisonMan ayon kay ...

At least she didn't call it a Conscious Uncoupling.

Susan ayon kay ...

Gay Talese she is not.

Guildofcannonballs ayon kay ...

Great White? I don't see Norm Borlaug though.


Well the times are getting hard for you, little girl
I'm a humming and a strumming all over god's world
You can't remember when you got your last meal
And you don't know just how a woman feels

You didn't know what rock and roll was
Until you met my drummer on a grey tour bus
I got there in the nick of time
Before he got his hands across your state line

Now it's the middle of the night on the open road
And the heater don't work and it's oh so cold
You're looking tired, you're looking kind of beat
The rhythm of the street sure knocks you off your feet

You didn't know how rock and roll looked
Until you caught your sister with the guys from the group
Half way home in the parking lot
By the look in her eye she was giving what she got

My, my, my, I'm once bitten, twice shy, baby
My, my, my, I'm once bitten, twice shy, baby
My, my, my, I'm once bitten, twice shy, baby

Woman you're a mess going to die in your sleep
There's blood on my amp and my Les Paul's beat
Can't keep you home, you're messing around
My best friend told me you're the best lick in town

You didn't know that rock and roll burned
So you bought a candle and you lived and you learned
You got the rhythm you got the speed
Mama's little baby likes it short and sweet

My, my, my, I'm once bitten, twice shy, baby
My, my, my, I'm once bitten, twice shy, baby
My, my, my, I'm once bitten, twice shy, baby

I didn't know you had a rock and roll record
Until i saw your picture on another guy's jacket
You told me I was the only one
But look at you now, it's dark and you're gone

My, my, my, I'm once bitten, twice shy, baby
My, my, my, I'm once bitten, twice shy, baby
My, my, my, I'm once bitten, twice shy, baby
My, my, my, I'm once bitten, twice shy, baby

So shy, so shy, so shy, so shy
So shy, so shy, so shy, so shy

victoria ayon kay ...

I absolutely hated "Eat,Pray, Love" and despised the movie. I wouldn't read anything of hers at all. Makes me gag

Vicki from Pasadena

Guildofcannonballs ayon kay ...

Just saw Sarah Palin.

Wow.

Live is better, even if prohibitively expensive to keep the riff raf riffed and raffed.

In case any shits might foment: indeed more beautiful in person.

Oh, and Islam puts the eye in ISIS.

I consider you fucks the ears, thought the Great Palin never said that, that is only my extrapolation.

You idiot ears of ISIS.

Eric the Fruit Bat ayon kay ...

I thought the movie was pretty good.

I especially liked the scenes where the father prepares the Chinese banquets for his daughters.

I had no idea you could inflate a chicken like that!

Eric the Fruit Bat ayon kay ...

Duck?

Eric the Fruit Bat ayon kay ...

Duck?

Eric the Fruit Bat ayon kay ...

Duck?

Eric the Fruit Bat ayon kay ...

GOOSE!!!!1!1!!!!!

jr565 ayon kay ...

Anew a novel - Eat, pray, Hate.

MayBee ayon kay ...

I cannot tell you how uplifting I find it that there are women who disliked that book/movie. Thank you, Althouse!

Freeman Hunt ayon kay ...

It wouldn't occur to me to read that book.

Carol ayon kay ...

The first one sounded odious. Women do tend toward exhibitionism, whether on the pole or in memoirs.

Why is that.

Freeman Hunt ayon kay ...

Another book it never occurred to me to read: the one where the guy hits the girl during (before?) sex, and she likes it. Or maybe she didn't like it. I don't know because I didn't read it. I was amazed at how many people read that. Why? Boring.

Mary Beth ayon kay ...

That book taught me self-control. I never read it, but I eventually managed to not roll my eyes anytime it was mentioned. I consider that a personal victory.

Rick.T. ayon kay ...

One of the many fascinating TED talks was on the subject of parasites in which a very bad (good?) pun was had at the expense of this book:

This is Toxoplasma gondii, or Toxo, for short, because the terrifying creature always deserves a cute nickname. Toxo infects mammals, a wide variety of mammals, but it can only sexually reproduce in a cat. And scientists like Joanne Webster have shown that if Toxo gets into a rat or a mouse, it turns the rodent into a cat-seeking missile. If the infected rat smells the delightful odor of cat piss, it runs towards the source of the smell rather than the more sensible direction of away. The cat eats the rat. Toxo gets to have sex. It's a classic tale of Eat, Prey, Love. (Laughter) (Applause)

Sebastian ayon kay ...

"It's curious that Roberts represents the women in general in NH but Grant doesn't represent men in general." Particular women represent womanhood, and particular men not manhood, when that makes women look best; otherwise, the opposite.

Matt ayon kay ...

Your love affair with bullshit memoirs will go on.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Thank you for this, ma'am. Best chuckle of the day. Yet, anyway.

William ayon kay ...

There's a kind of economy of words in the title. Those few words encapsulate all the drivel that women inflict on mankind. I hope she has a nasty, sordid divorce, and then goes on to write fan fiction using Cersei as her persona.

MarkW ayon kay ...

I was instantly reminded of this classic take-down by the ex-boyfriend of another writer of relationship-BS-for-ladies:

http://jezebel.com/5467630/email-interview-with-lori-gottliebs-ex-tim

rhhardin ayon kay ...

Eagle vs Shark (2007) with Loren Taylor and Jermaine Clement has the guy representing all guys, and the woman with womanly grace.

Also it has a New Zealander telling a joke in an Australian accent for comic effect, something you don't see every day.

A flick that's good when you think back on it the next day.

pm317 ayon kay ...

Well she has to make a living I suppose. What is wrong with that.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Without having followed the link or read the book, let me guess:

"Felipe" left Our Heroine for a younger woman, or

Turns out "Felipe" is gay.

wildswan ayon kay ...

Shoots, Eats, and Leaves - Part 2 The Breakup.

jg ayon kay ...

Yes, Eagle vs Shark is *amazing*. Go watch.

Jon Ericson ayon kay ...

Indeed,
Eats, shoots and leaves,
Pandemonium.

Jon Ericson ayon kay ...

err, PANDAmonium
needs more roughage, or something...

One Eye ayon kay ...

I read the book and really enjoyed the Eat and Pray parts.

The entire Love part was very contrived. I'm surprised they made it 9 years. My guess is they've been done for a long long time.

I also enjoyed her Ted talk on the nature of genius. She's not all bad, just needy / nutso.

donald ayon kay ...

That's a Mott The Hoople song.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

After I finish 'Tuesdays With Morrie,' while watching 'Air Bud 8,' while fondling the tchotchke Gramps gave me, I'll check it out.

Ron ayon kay ...

This entire comment thread and no one has done a Marry, Fuck, or Kill joke? Where have the great Althousian barflys gone?

mtrobertslaw ayon kay ...
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