Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
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Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Author: Julie Powell
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5092
EAN: 9780316013260
ISBN: 0316013269
Label: Back Bay Books
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2006-09-07
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Studio: Back Bay Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5092
EAN: 9780316013260
ISBN: 0316013269
Label: Back Bay Books
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2006-09-07
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Studio: Back Bay Books
Editorial Review of Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell resolved to reclaim her life by cooking, in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her unexpected reward: not just a newfound respect for calves' livers and aspic, but a new life--lived with gusto.
Customer Reviews of Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Can't quite put my finger on it
Review: I must confess up front that, whilst I give Julia Child major props for her life and her work, I'm not a big fan. This fact notwithstanding, I dove into this book over a vacation weekend and, though I enjoyed it, I wasn't as blown away as I had hoped. I thought many parts were laugh-out-loud funny and her use of obscenities I found quite natural, not at all forced, and I took no offense. I felt a bit squicked out with some of the sexual references but only because it was a work of fact, not fiction, and I don't really want to know these things about an author when he or she is writing in the first person. I also became quickly annoyed with the constant quirkiness of her friends and her brother, something that always gets on my pecs. They seemed a little too larger-than-life and I couldn't help but wonder just what kind of embellishment they had received. What I did enjoy was her writing style as it seemed very relaxed and friendly, like she truly enjoyed telling her story and wanted to share that feeling with her readers. I guess, in a nutshell, it's not a waste of time to read this book, but don't expect a wealth of insight into either Julia Child or French cooking. It lives up to its title, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Good Book for Foodies
Review: I love to read books about "food." It plays such an important part of our lives and tells so much about us. This book was more than just about food, but about a universal feeling of inadequacy that we can all identify with. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Just keep trying. Eventually you'll figure out how to master mayonnaise.
Review: I rounded up. I'dve gone with a 4.5., mainly because I think that some points were belabored, but it was a hysterical memoir filled with mistakes and blunders, cursing and all-in-all a wonderful narrator. I think one of the paragraphs towards the end summed it up for me: "Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no good reason. Julia taught me that." In other words, life is messy. And that's if you're doing it right.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Love Julie!
Review: This lady is funny, quick witted, especially insightful and brutally honest. And I'm not talking about Julia Childs. I found this book belly-laugh funny. Even if you don't like to cook, it's a good read.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Yummy, then not
Review: This blog/book is like a bag of Cheetos. It's so yummy and cheesy and you just can't stop and you really should stop and you kind of slow down and then you feel full and then you have another handful and then you fold up the bag and start to put it where you can't reach it and then you eat another handful and feel kind of yucky and then you wish you'd never seen those Cheetos ever because they weren't really that good to begin with. You don't eat Cheetos again for a long time. This book is a tidbit, not worth the money.
Review Summary: Can't quite put my finger on it
Review: I must confess up front that, whilst I give Julia Child major props for her life and her work, I'm not a big fan. This fact notwithstanding, I dove into this book over a vacation weekend and, though I enjoyed it, I wasn't as blown away as I had hoped. I thought many parts were laugh-out-loud funny and her use of obscenities I found quite natural, not at all forced, and I took no offense. I felt a bit squicked out with some of the sexual references but only because it was a work of fact, not fiction, and I don't really want to know these things about an author when he or she is writing in the first person. I also became quickly annoyed with the constant quirkiness of her friends and her brother, something that always gets on my pecs. They seemed a little too larger-than-life and I couldn't help but wonder just what kind of embellishment they had received. What I did enjoy was her writing style as it seemed very relaxed and friendly, like she truly enjoyed telling her story and wanted to share that feeling with her readers. I guess, in a nutshell, it's not a waste of time to read this book, but don't expect a wealth of insight into either Julia Child or French cooking. It lives up to its title, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Good Book for Foodies
Review: I love to read books about "food." It plays such an important part of our lives and tells so much about us. This book was more than just about food, but about a universal feeling of inadequacy that we can all identify with. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Just keep trying. Eventually you'll figure out how to master mayonnaise.
Review: I rounded up. I'dve gone with a 4.5., mainly because I think that some points were belabored, but it was a hysterical memoir filled with mistakes and blunders, cursing and all-in-all a wonderful narrator. I think one of the paragraphs towards the end summed it up for me: "Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no good reason. Julia taught me that." In other words, life is messy. And that's if you're doing it right.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Love Julie!
Review: This lady is funny, quick witted, especially insightful and brutally honest. And I'm not talking about Julia Childs. I found this book belly-laugh funny. Even if you don't like to cook, it's a good read.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Yummy, then not
Review: This blog/book is like a bag of Cheetos. It's so yummy and cheesy and you just can't stop and you really should stop and you kind of slow down and then you feel full and then you have another handful and then you fold up the bag and start to put it where you can't reach it and then you eat another handful and feel kind of yucky and then you wish you'd never seen those Cheetos ever because they weren't really that good to begin with. You don't eat Cheetos again for a long time. This book is a tidbit, not worth the money.