Book #9 "Julie & Julia" -Julie Powell: So I've come to the point that I am a little more then halfway through "Julie & Julia" and there are 3 main thoughts that have come to mind thus far. One being what we are going to consider the 'bad' thought ( to tell you the truth it's a bit of a 'soap-box-issue' for me), one being the 'good' thought I guess you could call it that, I mean it only makes sense that if your going to have a 'bad' thing you might as well follow it up with a 'good' one right?, and finally the thought that is leaving me in a bit of a predicament. So let's get started, shall we?
Okay before I start in on this first one I promise that I will try my very best not to go on to much of a rant...try being the key word. My issue is this: It always works one of two ways, either the book you are reading will be this amazing/awesome book and there is nothing that you can think of could make it better and then you find out that they made it into a movie and you go watch it and they totally take out all the good stuff from the book and replace it by pointless... wait for it...sex. If you have ever read and then watched "The Vow" you know exactly what I am talking about. However, if it doesn't happen this first way then it will be the opposite: you will end up seeing this movie and you fall in love with it and watch it a billion times and then you find out that its a book and you get all excited and go to read it and ...well I don't really need to explain that there is a bunch of pointless talk about sex in the whole book do I? "Julie & Julia", I'm sorry to say, is a perfect example of the second example mentioned above. It was just so unnecessary and really just takes away from the storyline in general.
Moving on the 'good' thought, for lack of a better name, the whole chapter and half when Julie is talking about killing and then cooking lobster serisously made me laugh so hard. The way she writes when she is talking about standing in her kitchen faced with the task of cutting up a live lobster has a way of making you feel like you are there with her. Part of me wonders however, if it is not slightly over-dramatized for the books sake. But serisouly though, if it's not then I want to be there in person to see someone cook a lobster for the first time someday cause I'm pretty sure it would be the most entertaining thing in the world. :)
Final thought is this: I have always been a very kind of monkey-see-monkey-do kind of person, for example when I first saw the movie "Racing Strips" when I was like 10 (or something) I went around pretending that I had a imaginary pet Zebra for at least a month. Sad I know. Anyways, I am older now, and hopefully not quite as crazy as my 10 year old self used to be, but as I sit and read about all this cooking I am having the insane urge to go and try to cook something myself. This is quite a predicament though when you consider that my cooking abilities start with a bowl of cereal and end somewhere around kraft mac n' cheese. I find that it will probably be best not to put my family members, not to mention myself, at risk with lack of cooking skills and I should probably just avoiding the urge to cook all together. Leave it to Julie Powell, besides she makes it so much more entertaining for the rest of us.
That's all for now, book should be finished with the final thoughts up by the end of the week.
Until next time,
Michaela Jane
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