July 25, 2008 
The main point of The 4-Hour Workweek is to be able to work just enough to live the life you want to lead — for some people that means traveling around the world, for others it means volunteering, and for others it means sitting in a little house in the woods overlooking a peaceful lake…. At the end of Eat, Pray, Love, while getting ready to leave Bali and head back to the states she writes about the expatriate society in Bali: “Everywhere in this town you see the same kind of character–westerners who have been so ill-treated and badly worn by life that they’ve dropped the whole struggle and decided camp out here in Bali indefinitely, where they can live in a gorgeous house for $200 a month, perhaps taking a young Balinese man or woman as a companion, where they can drink before noon without getting any static about it, where they can make a bit of money exporting a bit of furniture for somebody.
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Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert details the author’s journey from New York to Italy, India, and Indonesia. It could be read as a travelogue, detailing experiences in varying cultures. But, what separates Eat, Pray, Love from most travelogues is the intensity with which you as a reader become engrossed in Gilbert’s emotional journey. Gilbert [...]
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