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Wonderful. I have read every book on Julia Child, and I had the great privilege of meeting her once. This is the best of all the books, by a long shot, well-researched and insightful. Highly recommended.

Umm, not so wonderful. Clichèd, gossipy and unbearably cutesy in spots, loaded with insignificant details. Spitz gives far too much attention to what Pasadena was like during Child's growing up years and not much at all comparatively to her life after her husband's death. Who cares how much Child's Smith roommate weighed or that students at Child's prep school wore waitress-like uniforms? Had Spitz not overloaded the first half of the book with trivia he might have sustained his own energy level enough to have done a better job of conveying how Child reformulated her life after the death of her husband. He appears eventually to have foundered in his own overladen details. The gossipy trivia is interesting as that, but surely a subject as iconic as Julia Child deserves a more respectful approach. Skip this one unless you're a faithful reader of People magazine.

Dearie. This book holds your interest from beginning to end! The parade of characters and Julia's spirit shine thru. What a marvelous, unique person she was!

A Great Read. I've read all of the recent Julia Child biographies and this is the best and most complete yet. It gives deep insight into the psyche of this American icon. It is a page turner even though it is over 500 pages in paper form. Bob Spitz has done a really thorough job of documenting her life, beginning and ending with her life in California. He paints a picture of an attractive but somewhat difficult person for whom getting things right was a major driver. I especially liked getting the details of her intelligence assignment in Asia during WWII. It puts real meat on both her book writing and TV careers. By the end of the book one feels that you've met a good friend in Julia. In fact, the final pages describing her death almost brought tears.

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