With the ubiquity of the Internet and smartphones, nobody’s doing anything new anymore. Memoirs in the 21st century are taking a hit, as far as interesting narrative goes. So, it’s a cheeky parody of an old book mixed with an old, dated Internet slang reference. It’s wild, it’s stupid, it’s repetitive, it’s terrible.Īlso, can we talk about that title? Really, “Eat Pray #FML”? I get that it’s a play on “Eat, Pray, Love”, but “FML” is such a dated term. Every man who meets her absolutely cannot understand how anybody would ever cheat on her because they would give their eyes to marry her. When Gabrielle is not showering herself with compliments, she’s writing about how much everybody is obsessed with and loves her and would do anything for her. Photo credit: Eat, Pray, #FML by Gabrielle Stone She includes pages, PAGES, of the most nauseating text message conversations you will ever read. It takes a lot for me to physically cringe, but this book accomplished it on numerous occasions. There were times while reading this that I physically cringed. It makes no sense, and she reports that everybody finds her to be the strongest, most passionate, most amazing woman on the planet, but also kind of an idiot? Who doesn’t know how to navigate the world? Eat Pray #FML is the most cringe-inducing book on Planet Earth The level of concern that her family seems to carry for her matches the concern for a toddler going into Afghanistan. The way she talks about her adventure (she literally calls it “a cross-the-world trip”), she earnestly writes as if she is Magellan discovering a new continent. Not before inviting her on a month-long trip to Europe that he was already going on.ĭespite their breakup, she decides to go on the trip anyway and honestly thinks she is discovering Europe. But this grown-ass adult woman who thinks that this is the ultimate love story is absolutely instantly obsessed with this man, starts planning her future with him, and then dumps her a month later. Gabrielle goes through a pretty typical cheating–turned–divorce situation and then, the next day after serving her husband divorce papers, meets a new man and falls immediately into a new relationship. Anyway, I came across this incredibly cringy title and thought, “okay, why not? It’s free.” Eat Pray #FML summary I came across this book on my library’s Libby app, as I am trying to read as many travel books and memoirs as possible. I honestly don’t know how this became a book and had to check if it was self-published because I honestly cannot imagine any publisher or any publishing house reading this and thinking, “we can make money from this.” Eat Pray #FML by Gabrielle Stone is probably the worst travel memoir I’ve read, ever.
An impressively, gloriously, intensely bad book. Eat Pray #FML Review: This is a bad book (affiliate link).
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