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Title: Awful, whiny book. Skip it. Stick to the movie.
Review: Something tells me that if I had read the book first, I probably wouldn't have bothered with the movie. Glad I saw it the other way around. The screenplay writers did an excellent job turning a sow's ear into a silk purse (or reasonable fascimile of it.)I barely made it through the first chapter without wanting to just throw the book across the room. Turns out Julie Powell was a whiner far earlier in the book than she was in the movie. At least in the movie, some of the whining is charming. In the book it is not at all charming. You just want to smack her and yell, grow up already! In comparison, Julia's memoir is far more interesting, and while Julia definitely had her moments, it was clear she was far more emotionally mature than Julie. No wonder Julia blew off Julie and her blog.
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