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“Eat, Pray, Leave”: Let The Backlash Begin

Seven million copies, 170 weeks and counting on the New York Instances Most effective Vendor Checklist, and a single Julia Roberts-starring movie later on, Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray, Really like,” may perhaps, surprisingly, just be getting into the backlash phase that was inevitable from a guide with such runaway achievement. We’ve witnessed this story just before: Peter Mayles helped make sure a price hike in summer rentals in the south of France with “A Year in Provence,” Frances Mayes did the very same for Tuscany with “Underneath the Tuscan Sky,” and Alex Garland inspired hordes of backpackers to swarm Thailand with “The Seashore” — incidentally, a guide criticizing just that. As Time notes, the biggest recipient of visitors due to the book looks to be Bali, in which they note, from “January to March of 2006, 237,260 foreign tourists stopped by Bali. Since then the number has swelled steadily, and in the exact same three months of this 12 months, there had been 551,186 g...