Eat, Pray, Go @#$* Yourself

I may have to boycott the Internet if I see one more thing about the movie Eat Pray Love. I can't escape it. This morning Firefox was hijacked with an advertisement and the only escape was to close the tab. Everywhere there's advertisements and Julia Roberts was on Oprah today talking about it. Let me say that I have not read this book. I will never read this book. I will never see this movie. Just the thought makes my blood boil. All of this constant advertising is ruining my day. My absolute disgust of this book, author, promotions, movie and anything to do with it, stems from the author's appearance on Oprah several years ago and how the book was presented on the show and is why I broke up with Oprah. I've not watched Oprah since and I think Oprah knows everything. Here's the story:

I wanted to read this book. I was interested in this woman who was trying to figure out what her life was going to be like sans homme. I wanted to hear how she was going to figure out who she was by eating, praying and loving. It was during a time in my life when I really wanted to know about how someone was living by themselves, alone and making it work and not crying hysterically most hours of the day. I thought I could learn something from that. Then, the moment that ruined everything was when Oprah said, "And when we return, all about her Fairy Tale Romance!" And that was the sentence that lost me forever. I nearly choked on disgust. What a farce! What rubbish! This lady didn't learn how to live by herself. I was infuriated! Infuriated in the same manner as when I watched the final episode of Sex and the City. These ladies spend all these years single and then the 'ending,' the only possibility for their characters, for them to be happy is that they all have to be in relationships? Why the "fairy tale ending"? There was nothing different about this book. There wasn't anything to learn from it. It was the same story that doesn't end until you find a man and have a 'fairy tale ending.' And I thought the whole point of the book was to find peace in the fact that you are man-less. "Fairy tale romance" changed the whole point of the book. No longer was Eat Pray Love the goal, but only a temporary and necessary state before finding another man and I didn't want to hear about that story. I wanted to hear about the story about the woman who was single and not with a man and for whom that wasn't a temporary state and how she was dealing with that.

I understand that my reaction is irrational, sprinkled liberally with acute bitterness and that the urge to shout "Fuck you!" at the computer when the advertisements come on is juvenile and useless, but I'm going to continue to do it.