Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Deserves 1 start except introduced me to Julia

Everything about this book is pretty terrible: narcissistic, whiny, boring. Anybody with a blog seems to get a book deal. So you cooked her recipes for a year, big deal. Julia actually wrote those recipes and retested them and used them for a lifetime, not as a gimmick. But it was a gift and so I dutifully read it because I like to cook and it introduced me to Julia Child so I must say thanks for that. It led me to read My Life in France a few years ago (Julia's memoir)which I loved but now I am reading Dearie, a well written biography about Julia's whole life, not just the happy bits in France, by Bob Spitz. If you want inspiration in cooking, read either of these, not Julie and Julia!