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I honestly don't know how anyone can like this book. The main character, Julie/Julia is a complete b*tch. I only made it to page 50 of this book before I said, "enough!" and nearly set fire to it for wasting an hour of my time.
To recap, Julie lives in a small town but dreams of being rich & important. She puts down her hometown upbringing as country/hick and brags about now living in D.C., being a big time party planner, having a rich husband who made 70 million for his flavored water, owning a multi-million dollar home, driving a Jaguar that she parks out by the fountain in their driveway, admiring the 5 dozen roses the maid put out, blah blah blah. I got so sick of her bragging about having money then boo-hooing over her husband spending more time at his job than with her. To make matters worse, her husband collapses in the office one evening and is declared dead for over 4 minutes before he's brought back to life from a defibrillator. During those precious minutes, he sees the err of his ways and now wants to get back to the basics, including on working on their marriage. Julia is annoyed by this as "they're even atheists for Gods sake!" (taken directly out of the book).
After that, I'd had enough. I couldn't stand the materialistic main character and couldn't bear to read anymore of her woe is me whining. Skipping A Beat = skipping this book.
To recap, Julie lives in a small town but dreams of being rich & important. She puts down her hometown upbringing as country/hick and brags about now living in D.C., being a big time party planner, having a rich husband who made 70 million for his flavored water, owning a multi-million dollar home, driving a Jaguar that she parks out by the fountain in their driveway, admiring the 5 dozen roses the maid put out, blah blah blah. I got so sick of her bragging about having money then boo-hooing over her husband spending more time at his job than with her. To make matters worse, her husband collapses in the office one evening and is declared dead for over 4 minutes before he's brought back to life from a defibrillator. During those precious minutes, he sees the err of his ways and now wants to get back to the basics, including on working on their marriage. Julia is annoyed by this as "they're even atheists for Gods sake!" (taken directly out of the book).
After that, I'd had enough. I couldn't stand the materialistic main character and couldn't bear to read anymore of her woe is me whining. Skipping A Beat = skipping this book.
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