to think Eat, Pray, Love is a pile of self indulgent dross?

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Admittedly I have not watched it more than 5 minutes here and there but fuck me, it is irritating and shite is it not?

YY to Captain Corelli shite. I keep a copy for when my insomnia gets really bad.

I don't think I've ever seen such unison on MN :)

I wholeheartidly agree with everyone. I got bought the book for christmas and did actually manage to get about half way through before giving up completely.

Agree with whoever said it earlier, Coyote Ugly is definately the worst film ever.

Total absolute bollocks. Worst film of the year. In some parts it looked like an M&S food ad, but not as good as an M&S ad. Waste of fucking time. I thought Julia Roberts had more taste. Was also made by Brad Pitt's production company. Just shocking.

It's irredeemable shyte! I watched in a flight back from Seattle earlier this year and can honestly say it was the best remedy ever for inflight insomnia.

I hated it.

"In some parts it looked like an M&S food ad, but not as good as an M&S ad."

I liked some parts of the book, though the author annoyed me.

Thought the movie was crap.

The world is divided into two sorts of women.

Whiny, egotistical, naval gazing, first-person-in-the-world-to-experience-anything (i.e. divorce, good food, the developing world, finding self, etc, etc, ad nauseum), wisdom-imparters. And then set up book clubs to discuss it.

And those that find that sort of thing a load of old tut.

Read the book to the bitter end in the feeble hope that she might get a). less annoying, or at the very least b). a sense of humour and/or perspective. Apparently not...

I thought i would hate the book and hte film, but oddly I liked it.

Still confused about that. but I had VERY low expectations.

I liked the fact that she only became happy when she started focussing on helping someone else, instead of just thinking about herself.

Not only is this book crap, but it RUINED Oprah for me. Oprah said it was life changing and bought copies for everyone she knew. And that can ONLY mean that to be persuaded to say that, Oprah took a bung.

Irritating and shite yes. Watching the dubbed version is slightly more entertaining, but the part with Javier Bardem when he says "It's Time" really did put me off my popcorn. Nul points.

My husband bought the film thinking I might like it-I should leave him, shouldn´t I?

It has Julia Roberts in FFS.

And looks a load of crap anyway.

Someone lent me the book. I took it on my last beach holiday, read about 20 pages, thought fuck this for a game of soldiers and read a Lee Child/Jack Reacher instead. If I'm going to read drivel, I'm at least going to be entertained by it.

Then I tried to watch the film on Sky at the weekend...I got as far as where she went to Rome and then I went and cleaned the kitchen. I never voluntarily undertake housework...that's how bad the film is.

I didn't think it was that bad although when she was in India, it bored me and I actually fast forwarded a lot of it. I did see it out to the end though. I also don't understand this need to find oneself. I thought it would be like VickyChristinaBarcelona which I loved but sadly, it wasn't

Gawd, I have just watched this pile of crap.

And was going to start a thread, but you good ladies got here first.

Yes, to whoever said it was like an entertaining Americanised version of Italy/India/Bali.
Yes, thank god she hasn't got children, although do you not think having children just means you have no time left to worry about what the meaning of life is, you just get on with it.
Why oh why can people not find themselves in their own lives, I just don't get this.
Why do you have to spend loads of money and go and live someone elses?
That's not enlightenment