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Title: Not worth the hype
Review: I picked this up because I heard about it endlessly on NPR and trusted them to direct me to a great book. I was sadly disappointed. Julie Powell tried to tie together a series of disparate blogs into a meaningful and humorous account of a year but didn't succeed very well; I felt like I was bouncing from one story to another to another without any strong connections between them and, unfortunately, there wasn't much humor or well-rounded characters to make up for it (Julie, the one fully fleshed character, was more annoying that sympathetic). I don't recommend this at all. Believe it or not, I'm sure the movie will be better.
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