Reviews round-up
All the Way to the River
by Elizabeth Gilbert
2 of 5 critics positive
8 reviews: 2 positives, 1 mixed, 2 pans; 3 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
“self-indulgent and shameless – like all good memoirs”
Elizabeth Gilbert doesn’t deserve the hate
“a beguiling tale of drug abuse, addiction, and co-dependent love”
She was the queen of the spiritual memoir – so how did Elizabeth Gilbert end up plotting to murder her girlfriend?
“has one big problem”
Eat Pray Love writer Elizabeth Gilbert’s painful memoir has one big problem
“Wealthy, whiny and wildly tone deaf”
Wealthy, whiny and wildly tone deaf: Elizabeth Gilbert’s new memoir exemplifies ‘priv-lit’
“excruciating to read”
All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert review – excruciating to read
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Epiphanies, in “All the Way to the River”
“startling story of divorce, sex and grief”
Elizabeth Gilbert’s self-help addiction
My life with a drug addict — the Eat, Pray, Love author’s new memoir
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