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Title: You're buying a book, not choosing a godparent
Review: While I share the low opinion of Ms. Reichl's character expressed by several reviewers here, I feel they are missing the point. John Updike once said, when accused of writing unsympathetic protagonists, that it was the author's duty to present believable characters and that the reader was free to like them or not. In this case, the memoirist has a number of interesting stories to tell and she has told them with skill and an unusual amount of candor. Would that all celebrity books could claim the same.
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