Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: I've read one third of the book, and then dumped it.

I liked the idea of the book's basis; that is, blogging about learning French cooking by using Julia Child's book about French cooking. But I couldn't stand the author's personality style as it came through in her writing. It's not so much that she uses the F-word a great deal, but the fact that she is a whiney, crybaby, mean-spirited person. I feel sorry for her husband for having to put up with her histrionics. My copy is the paperback of 300 pages, and after having read the first 100 pages I cannot take any more of her. I've never felt this way about a book before, but it makes me angry. Sorry.