Helpful Score: 3
This is one of the best celebrity memoirs I have ever read. Possibly the best. It is beautifully worded and well written. Amy is brutally honest and raw yet remains graceful and humble. She comes across as genuinely human and flawed yet positive and well intentioned. I love that the underlying message is the importance of maintaining friendships and being kind. The book itself is gorgeous to look at, it has glossy pages filled with colorful images, lists and quotes.
Helpful Score: 1
Love this audio book and will post after I lend it to a friend. She reads it herself, which is great. Smarter and funnier even than you thought! Highly recommended.
I really enjoyed the parts when she talked about her childhood and shared her thoughts on current issues (parenting, technology, role of women). I was less interested in who she performed with in Chicago or New York in which year in which theater.
DNF: I ended up stopping this book about 80% of the way through the audiobook (I had a couple hours left). I rarely stop audiobooks but I really didn't enjoy this one. The story was scattered all over the place; jumping around willy nilly from past to present and back again.
The portions where Poehler has her parents come in to do chapters were awkward and uncomfortable to listen to. Generally I just found the whole thing to be very boring. There is a lot of throwing names around, mostly names I didn't know, and very little of this was actually funny.
It actually got to the point where I was dreading listening to this each morning on my commute so I decided to stop.
Overall this was disappointing for me. I wouldn't recommend unless you are a die-hard Poehler fan or a die-hard SNL fan.
The portions where Poehler has her parents come in to do chapters were awkward and uncomfortable to listen to. Generally I just found the whole thing to be very boring. There is a lot of throwing names around, mostly names I didn't know, and very little of this was actually funny.
It actually got to the point where I was dreading listening to this each morning on my commute so I decided to stop.
Overall this was disappointing for me. I wouldn't recommend unless you are a die-hard Poehler fan or a die-hard SNL fan.
This was a light and easy read but I was a little disappointed. At times it felt a little self-serving, like it was written just as an excuse for her to reminisce about the good old days of improv and drop names of people you may or may not have heard of. But definitely worth a credit from PBS if you like Amy Poehler.
