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| Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously | 
 enlarge | Author: Julie Powell
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 11956
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0316013269
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5092
EAN: 9780316013260
ASIN: 0316013269
Publication Date: September 7, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 get over yourselves March 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm not sure why people hated this book. It is a humorous memoir. If you are looking for deap reflections on JC, or her recipes, don't look here. This is a good read. I suspect the negative reviews come from republicans who got their over sized view of themselves bruised.
 Distasteful February 26, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I couldn't get through this book either. I originally picked it up because my name is Julia and my mom's name is Julie...so it was, literally, calling my name. I thought it would be a fun, quirky story of a woman finding herself through food...but instead it was a really abrasive, whiny story about the author, with the occasional mention of Julia Child and French cooking. Just couldn't slog through this one.
Messy, disastrous, and wonderful February 21, 2008
Delightful! Powell has a natural, anecdotal voice that draws you into her chaotic life. She's even able to present her impulsive decision to cook all of the recipes from Julia Childs' "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" as a sort of valiant last stand against the increasing mediocrity of her life. Powell lays out the ensuing year of culinary obsessiveness in all of its messy detail. This is a great read if you're at all interested in Molly Ivans-style wit or the down-to-the-wire suspense of an episode of Iron Chef.
A foul-mouthed treatise on ... February 7, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I had hoped to read cooking stories, instead I found Julie & Julia to be a foul-mouthed treatise on sex, politics, bigotry, bad manners, drinking and other not-so charming things.
Ms. Powell describes her job working with the families of the 9/11 victims as "emotional sh** work". She complains constantly about her biological time clock; throws temper tantrums in her doctor's office; openly confesses to having sold her "eggs" (twice) for money to pay off credit card debt; and brazenly shares about her sloppy house keeping: one episode involved backed up plumbing that was left to bubble for an evening while Julie and Eric got drunk. Another involved flies and maggots in the kitchen, where she blithely comments, " ... part of you just assumes there's gotta be some maggots somewhere around."
She describes her kitchen as " ... absolutely disgusting -- dabs of butter stuck to the side of the fridge, various meat juices spattered in violet arcs across the walls, layers of doughy, buttery, dusty, cat-hairy [...] on every surface."
It should go without saying that I found Ms. Powell to be a self-centered, selfish, foul-mouthed, bigoted, and uncaring woman. She lacks any compassion for others; she paints people with a broad brush filled with her own cold, bigoted views; and really needs her mouth washed out with soap. Add in her appalling lack of concern for hygiene in her home and we have one disgusting book. Why any publisher would pay good money to publish this filthy tripe is beyond me.
My rating for the book and the author are the same: -4 stars (only Amazon doesn't have a minus system)
 Just OK January 23, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The character was self-absorbed past distraction. In fact, she was so distracted that most of the time she could not get out of her own way. And where was she going? And why do I want to read about it? I also found it difficult relating Julia Child's "diary" excerpts to the life-experiences of Julie that they were spliced into. If it wasn't a book club book, I wouldn't have finished it.
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