Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

I liked it! (2010-03-10) : 4/5
Liz returns with the story of why and how she marries Felipe. They had vowed to spend their lives together but without getting married because they had both been through difficult divorces. Gilbert relates tons of information on the history of marriage and different cultural views on marriage. She shares some very personal information about the marriages of her mother and grandmother. This book is not as funny as "Eat, Pray, Love" but was still very enjoyable.
Painful (2010-03-09) : 1/5
Ugh. I was so disappointed with this book, having high expectations after "Eat Pray Love". I never skip pages, but I started skipping here. I felt like I was in a bar where the person next to you has one drink too many and won't stop talking about the same topic over and over... in this case, marriage.

I'm divorced and (happily) remarried so you'd think I could relate... I'm glad to see Gilbert taking her vows *very* seriously but God Bless, that was a long-winded "I Do".

Save yourself the trouble and just buy a textbook on relationships over this. There's no story, this is more of a rant than a book.
Great book, highly recommended! (2010-03-09) : 5/5
Provides great insight into the world of marriage and what it means in society today.
Saltine cracker dryness (2010-03-07) : 2/5
Ok, I'm probably only one of the only women in the U.S. who hasn't read Eat, Pray, Love; that being said, I came into reading Committed with a blank slate opinion of the author and her past experiences. I have to agree with some other reviewers when they say this book is creepily reminiscent of our college sociology textbooks, dissecting and overanalyzing every little minute detail on the concept of marriage. It was all just a bit much, without much lightness to balance it out. It was too much teaching and research, which I guess if you're doing research on marriage, it would be a great resource for you, but otherwise it was pretty darn dry. I admit I am a little biased, having been married and divorced twice now. I did feel a bit silly reading a book on marriage and devoting this much time to it, when I fully intend to never get married again, and yes I get the irony of that being the author's beginnning standpoint as well. She was trying so terribly hard to convince herself that it was alright to get married, it ended up feeling as if "if you have to talk yourself into that much, maybe it really wasn't meant to be after all." I get that she and Felipe feel they were "forced" to marry by Immigration, and boy did it ever feel forced. I hope they get some rewards out of their hard-pressed marriage after all.
COMMITTED (2010-03-07) : 5/5
This non-fiction book by Elizabeth Gilbert was very well written. I felt that I was truly involved in her adventures along with those of Felipe, her new husband to-be. Elizabeth certainly was just as amazingly clear in this book as she was in the first, EAT,LOVE AND PRAY. Her research on marriage in various cultures, thoughts, insights, loves, joys, pain, compassion and persistance were all in evidence. What a wonderful read!!