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That she chose a formidable French cookery tome by Julia Child to prove her mettle is both highly entertaining and metaphorically satisfying. The desperation of a bright young woman about to hit 30 who's mired in a life that's much too small for her is palpably felt in this book's prose, as well as in the author's voice (She's both a talented writer and an expressive reader). I was attracted to this book because of its author's desperation to find meaning in her life-and the creative approach she took to resolving this all-too-common symptom of our empty-calorie society. But if you want the insight on what it is like to make all of Julia's recipes from her first book in one year, skip this one.

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If you want to know about Julie Powell's life over a one year period then this is for you (which you could read for free on her blog). She even goes so far as to refer to Julia Child as JC. She's also a frustrated actress and her reading style shows this. Nor do I want to hear her bashing GW Bush (and I'm no fan of this president).

I really don't want to hear about pink dildoes and c*ock (not the rooster) in a book on Julia Child's recipes. The language can be foul at times and I'm no prude. In the first hour and half (out of nearly 6 hours) of this audiobook she address 2 recipes! When she says at 1:20 minutes into the the audio 'Day 38 recipe 46', I wanted to scream, 'What about the other 45 recipes!' She is obsessed with 9/11 as she worked as a temp secretary for some some federal agency after the attack. I loved Julia Child and her cookbooks and couldn't wait to read of one person making all recipes to Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year. I was so looking forward to this title and so disappointed when I listened to it. I think the producer, director, editor, whomever ought to be responsible for making sure an audiobook with this much French vocabulary is comprehensible to those who listen and want to understand what they hear. If people don't speak French they can at least look the words up when they see them written on the page, but for those who actually DO speak French, there is no way to solve the problem of figuring out a mispronounced word in an audiobook.

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Further, there is no point in recording a book with lots of French words in it if they are mispronounced-the author might as well use English words if she didn't need the French ones in the text-and if she did need the French words then she ought to have learned how to pronounce them correctly for the audiobook. This is ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE when no attempt is made to pronounce an entire specialized vocabulary within the book correctly. How much extra time and expense would it take to consult a French dictionary or even just a French person and get some phonetic spelling to permit French words to be pronounced with some resemblance to French? The whole purpose of listening to an audiobook is to HEAR the text. My biggest problem is not with the author as author, but rather with the author as narrator or perhaps the lack of appropriate directing/editing which is characteristic of not only this audiobook, but most audiobooks based on any significant percentage of French vocabulary. Most of the author's commentary was witty and funny, and only occasionally marred by the unnecessarily childish vulgar language that better suits a blog perhaps than a book.

I was surprised and pleased by how much I enjoyed this title.