2 Book Reviews

Hey all,
Just a quick couple book reviews.
I read Eat, Pray, Love. Yes, that´s super gay of me. I did it because I have been toying with the idea of writing a book about my travels and what led up to them. So, I picked it up at a book swap for research.
First, let me say this. If you are a dude, and aren´t gay, you will hate this book. If you are a chick, or a gay dude, you will probably like this book. Without spoiling to much, the book follows Liz (the author) through Italy where she eats, India where she prays, and Bali where she loves. Clever title, huh? The problem that I had with this book is that she is a total nut job. I like the fact that she goes travelling and like to read about what she does, but she is really fucking preachy. The authors voice is authoritative, masked by what seems to be humility, on the matters of eating, praying, and loving; esp. on the matters of praying. This voice also doesn´t seem to notice glaring contradictions in itself, nor does it leave room for her being wrong about anything (even though she feigns this). Then, by the end of the book, she seems to have most of her act together. However, if the dude she ended up with were to dump her, she´d be exactly back where she started cause she never really gets her head straight.
It was really hard for me to read after her eating phase, cause all I could say "you don´t have a fucking clue what you´re talking about. Stop pretending to have your shit together."

Second book: The Anthologist: A Novel. This book is about a poet who has to write an anthology and struggles with it. I loved this book. Besides learning a ton about poetry that I´ll never remember, I loved the simplicity. The author isn´t trying to accomplish too much; it´s just an interesting guy, who you can relate to, doing normal shit, while trying to write a book. Oh yeah, and woo his girl friend back. It´s a quick read, and great. Get it.