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update on "Eat, Pray, Love"
Datum:15.03.2010 - Rating: 5/5This book is a woman's study of love and marriage. If you have read Eat, Pray, Love by this author you will remember that she has fallen in love but both she and her new partner do not wish marriage. They had both made bad experiences with divorce. Now Elizabeth Gilbert tours parts of the world and makes a study of marriage. This study becomes a wonderful book, a very personal book. She travels far and wide and it is almost a guided tour of a meditation on love, in all its forms. She pays great attention to all the small things that really matter, and great attention to every soul she meets along her way. After examining compatibility, fidelity, infatuation,family tradition, social expectations and divorce risks, her fear of marriage finally dissipates and she is ready to accept marriage a second time. In the end the book becomes a celebration of love. She is ready for marriage to her friend Felipe! This book provokes thinking of all the complexities of love and marriage in one's own little world. A remarkable book. A must read!
Multidimensional tribut to marriage
Datum:02.03.2010 - Rating: 5/5I don't agree at all with the opinion of the reader who said that the book "Committed" shows good reasons against marriage. At the end I felt more like it was a serenade praising marriage. Elisabeth Gilbert has considered the marriage as a very complex matter, which it is. And she has shown various marriages which she witnessed or participated in. Some were very happy, including children, some had their failures, most resulted in losing something and winning a lot. And she shown different perspectives you can look at it. Her research about marriage in history and psychology of it helped her to understand that marriage as a creature of its own, and it is born through contribution of two partners and the way it develops depends only on these two partners. Only these two can save it from rough influence of various environments and only these two have the ultimate power on its success or its failure. And she has also shown that this partnership is more powerful than any society and that it survived all the rough attacs from society, church, governments, etc. etc. etc.
This book is very different from "Eat, Pray, Love" but it is as profound as comforting as helpful.
Of all books from Elisabeth Gilbert, I read only these two books so far: "Eat, Pray, Love" and "Committed" and these two belong to the four books that impressed me most. I liked many books among hundreds I read so far, but these four including the two from Elisabeth Gilbert are those which touched me deeply within and will always remain in my memory.
Elisabeth sounds as a good friend or a sister in her last two books. She doesn't try to give a recipy, she just tells you her story and somehow in many places you recognize yourself.
I will definitely read her other books. I am curious how she wrote before these two.
Poor advice on getting married
Datum:24.01.2010 - Rating: 1/5Elizabeth Gilbert writes well. "Eat, Pray, Love", her last book, was a bestseller, primarily among women, it seems. It was the nonfiction story about a journey that she took after a bad divorce. At the end of that journey she falls in love again. Gilbert's new book "Connected" is about why she got married a second time. Why did she have to write a whole book about that? Well, it appears that the first marriage fell apart because, among other reasons, Elizabeth did not want to have children while her first husband did. She felt that she had the right to give priority to the realization of her creative talents as a writer even if the price for renouncing maternity was divorce. As a modern woman that was her choice and she was prepared to face the consequences.
The curious thing is that she feels bad about getting married again because external pressures rather than a change of her mind on marriage seem to have governed the further course of events. The pressures come from a missing visa of her new partner who does not possess US citizenship. Everything else is ok. The incoming husband is 17 years Elizabeth's elder, has two adult children from a previous marriage and does not aspire to additional paternity. Had the US Immigration authorities not raised fuss about that visa, Elizabeth would probably just have carried on living together with her new partner without getting married.
"Connected", in fact, continues to list all the good reasons for not getting married at all, which is quite all right and legitimate. But it also gives a number of bad reasons for getting married without having children, which are a nuisance.
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