Eat Pray Love

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Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth
Gilbert
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Author

• Elizabeth Gilbert is an award-winning writer of
  both fiction and non-fiction.
• A Novelist
• A News reporter

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• In 2002The Last American Man, which was a
  finalist for both the National Book Award and the
  National Book Critics' Circle Award.
• Best know forher 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love,
  which was published in over thirty languages and
  sold more than seven million copies worldwide.
  The film, released in 2010, stars Julia Roberts
  and Javier Bardem
• In 2010 Committed

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In Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love
with Felipe , which seemed to be a satisfactory
ending. Just like most of the love stories, the
two stay together and we think they will marry
and lead a happy life.
Committed
a follow-up to
Eat Pray Love
A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
A romantic and magical love story
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• However, you may be wrong. Marriage means that
  the two persons will open a door to another
  different world and began another life, which
  involves social responsibilities and lots of
  trivia.
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• In these two books, Eat Pray love is a romantic
  and love story, while Committed is related to
  matrimony thinking after their passionate love.

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Book description
Eat Pray Love

• This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir
  touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers.
• Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the
  difficult choice to leave behind all the
  trappings of modern American success (marriage,
  house in the country, career) and find, instead,
  what she truly wanted from life.

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• Setting out for a year to study three different
  aspects of her nature amid three different
  cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in
  Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then
  a balance between the two on the Indonesian
  island of Bali.
• At the end of her book, she fell in love with
  Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian
  citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when
  they met.

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Book description
Committed

• Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal
  fidelity to each other, but also swore to get
  legally married under any circumstances. (Both
  were survivors of previous divorces, so they are
  afraid of marriage)
• But providence intervened one day. The United
  States government detained Felipe at an American
  border crossinggave the couple a choice they
  could either get married, or Felipe would never
  be allowed to enter the country again. ()

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• Having been effectively sentenced to wed,
  Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving
  into this topic completely, trying with all her
  might to discover through historical research,
  interviews, and much personal reflection what
  this stubbornly enduring old institution actually
  is.
• Told with Gilberts trademark wit,
  intelligence and compassion, Committed attempts
  to turn on all the lights when it comes to
  matrimony, frankly examining questions of
  compatibility, infatuation, fidelity(??), family
  tradition, social expectations, divorce risks and
  humbling responsibilities.

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comments

• Committed is more realistic than Eat Pray Love.
  The author tried to search as much information as
  possible, through the complex western marriage
  history, in order to persuade herself to accept
  the marriage again. It relates to feminist
  movement, comments on marriage scholars, guidance
  on interests of property, and even advices from
  Buddha.
• Most of people maintain that they will get
  married someday with somebody. It is like a rule
  that the society made. But before that, we should
  clear your thoughts about marriage. Be
  responsible for yourself. As is at the end of
  committed, Gilbert found her own supporting
  reason she needs her own space for love.

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• Her official website
• http//www.elizabethgilbert.com/eatpraylove.htm
• Trailer
• http//v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTg2NTUyMzQ0.html

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• Thank you!