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title: "Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child"
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# Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child

**Brand:** ms kris dahl noel riley fitch
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Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child

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## Customer Reviews

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    Appetite for facts
  

*by M***D on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 November 2012*

Although I read this book with some enjoyment, I felt that a competent editor might have wielded the red pencil with a little more authority. If Julia and Paul gave a dinner, you felt that every name would be mentioned, and I almost gave up reading near the end with all the shenanigans at the California Institute. The book does, however, give a more rounded portrait of Paul Child than Bob Spitz's does, and the reader comes to realise that Julia Child was probably more the creation of that talented and frustrated artist than she was by her own efforts.

### ⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Very poor printing quality
  

*by K***D on Reviewed in the United States on 31 July 2022*

Print quality of the text is poor, with many pages so faint on on one side, they're difficult to read. The paper is flimsy and darkish, and in the two photo sections, images from the other side of the page can be seen. The photos themselves were clearly not photoshopped as many as so dark, faces can't be discerned at all, and again poorly printed, some with streaks as in the attached screen shot. Just a poorly produced softcover. Will see if the hardcover is more professionally produced. Julia deserved better than this poor edition.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great biography
  

*by G***L on Reviewed in the United States on 25 August 2009*

I bought this book after seeing the movie Julie and Julia a couple of weeks ago. I really didn't know much about Julia and Paul Child - who were indeed a team as this bio points out - until reading Fitch's book. Her writing is excellent, and I'd rather know too much than too little about a subject. I just cannot understand any of the bad reviews of this book that have been written.I have also read "Julie and Julia", which I didn't quite care for. I still have the third book, Julia Child's own "My Life in France" next up on my reading table. But to get back to Fitch's book, which ends before Child's death in 2004, it is a complete biography of all of Child's life up to the point it was written. Fitch incorporates most of Julia'a (and Paul's) family and friends and makes special mention of their WW2 duties in the OSS in Ceylon and China. Most of all, the reader can "see" how Julia McWilliams and Paul Child fell in love and created "Julia Child".Fitch's work is a good addendum to the movie Julie and Julia.

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