So I got this book because of the movie. I struggled to read it. The author goes into tooooo much detail about things and it just drags on. She also writes the book for higher level readers which turns me off since there is toooo much detail

I had heard mixed reviews on this book and finally decided to read it for myself to see what I thought of the book, and having done that, I've reached a few conclusions.
Yes, the author can be incredibly self-absorbed. As can all memoir authors. That's why they call them memoirs.
Yes, the author was able to run away, to escape from her life, to try (successfully) to find herself. What woman hasn't wanted to do that, I ask you? Just because she has been able to do that doesn't make her evil or self absorbed. It makes her blessed.
Yes, I truly believe that unless you've suffered something catastrophic such as a bad accident, the death of a close loved one, or a divorce, you will find the author to be narcissistic. Having gone thru a disasterous marriage and subsequently divorce, coupled with the death of my brother and two rounds of unemployment, I am highly qualified to relate, and relate well, to this author's plight.

This book is an enjoyable read, and one of the few books I've ever strung out into days worth of reading just because I've wanted to savor the reading.

The whole idea of the book is how unhappy the author was in her dream job with a successful husband and large country home, so she abandoned it all to spend a year traveling to exotic places and not working. Basically a testimony to elitist upper class problems and in trying to be self depracating and relatable, she just created a larger void between herself and the readers she was trying to appeal to. Plus, the ending was stupid. Her message was basically that she opposed marriage, but couldn't be happy without a man.

If you're going to write a book about not being able to handle your upper-class problems, so you combat them with an upperclass solution that a 17-year-old with a trust fund would come up with, you sure the heck shouldn't try to get a bunch of housewives living on 35K a year to read it....