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In Amy Poehler s highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice some useful, some not so much , like when to be funny and when to be serious Powered by Amy s charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, Yes Please is a book full of words to live by. Download Yes Please – kino-fada.fr This is not a comedy book I mean, it s funny Amy Poehler can t write a book and not be funny, because she s Amy fuckin Poehler But and this is not the first time I m going to compare the two memoirs where Tina Fey s Bossypants contained humorous essays written specifically for the purpose of being funny, Poehler s does not Everything is presented in a straightforward, matter of fact, fa...YES REALLY I almost gave this two stars, except it includes George Clooney and that would be a crime This book is fine It didn t charm me It actually took me about three or four days to read 288 pages, which is funny because a lot of those pages don t include any actual words she s got a ton of photocopies and inspirational signs intermixed with the text It just wasn t as fun to read as I anticipated The problem is that she spends most of the book talking about how hard it is to write a YES REALLY I almost gave this two stars, except it includes George Clooney and that would be a crime This book is fine It didn t charm me It actually took me about three or four days to read 288 pages, which is funny because a lot of those pages don t include any actual words she s got a ton of photocopies and inspirational signs intermix...It breaks my heart to give this book one star.I love Amy Poehler In fact I love every member of that early two thousands the decade, not the century female Saturday Night Live cast ensemble Poehler, Fey, Rudolph, Dratch I often mentally include Kristen Wiig in the mix, too, because she s fantastic, but she was sort of late to the party, having joined SNL a year before Dratch and Fey left.But as I was saying, I think highly of Poehler I enjoy her comedy, her intelligence, her personality It breaks my heart to give this book one star.I love Amy Poehler In fact I love every member of that early two thousands the decade, not the century female Saturday Night Live cast ensemble Poehler, Fey, Rudolph, Dratch I often mentally include Kristen Wiig in the mix, too, because she s fantastic, but she was sort of late to the party, having joined SNL a year before Dratch and Fey left.But as I was saying, I think highly of Poehler I enjoy her comedy, her intelligence, her personality overall But I didn t like this book.To me, Yes Please readslike a scatterbrained diary than the well crafted memoir I had been hoping for Very little of the book seems to have been composed with any forethought it s as though Poehler were performing improv in lit form Except while she may be a master of the art on a stage, her improvisational talent doesn t really migrate to the written page Her stories meander ...No, thank you.I was supposed to love this book and as I always do when I find myself super disappointed, I looked back through other reviews to see if I was alone I don t think I am alone, but no one is expressing my disappointment quite how I need it to be expressed, so I get to do that myself this time around.I just kept waiting and waiting and waiting The moment it was going to get good and awesome had to be right around the corner Soon I would get past all the filler and all the No, thank you.I was supposed to love this book and as I always do when I find myself super disappointed, I looked back through other reviews to see if I was alone I don t think I am alone, but no one is expressing my disappointment quite how I need it to be expressed, so I get to do that myself this time around.I just kept waiting and waiting and waiting The moment it was going to get good and awesome had to be right around the corner Soon I would get past all the filler and all the fluff and dig into the heart of the book It would be so great I was so excited And then I realized I had under fifty pages ...Audiobook A little non chronological memoir by famous comedian Amy Poehler A bit of everything, childhood, parents, improv beginnings, pregnancy, motherhood, divorce, sex, drugs, pudding, career, Tina, womanhood, time travel, the Biz, Parks and Recreation, SNL,SNL, and, lastly, little bits of SNL sprinkled into every other topic that you may think is not related to SNL, but somehow is.I start to think memoirs are not my thing, didn t care much for Poehler s, Fey s or Barry s I ve Audiobook A little non chronological memoir by famous comedian Amy Poehler A bit of everything, childhood, parents, improv beginnings, pregnancy, motherhood, divorce, sex, drugs, pudding, career, Tina, womanhood, time travel, the Biz, Parks and Recreation, SNL,SNL, and, lastly, little bits of SNL sprinkled into every other topic that you may think is not related to SNL, but somehow is.I start to think memoirs are not my thing, didn t care much for Poehler s, Fey s or Barry s I ve found them somewhat interesting, yet not really enjoyable I ve never watched SNL I know it s there, I know it s cool, I know I should watch it, but it doesn t really air over here so Anyway, I m positive this would totally hit it with any SNL fan Amy Poehler is one badass dudess, you can tell even if it is your first time hearing her, and she s probably gonna make you sm...Find all of my reviews at Good Christ just obtaining a library copy of this f % g book was like going on an adventure After my third trek down to the local bibliotheca, I finally had success Look at the happy You re probably asking yourself if she s such a Poehler fangirl, why didn t she just go to the BN and grab herself a copy Well, you see I am cheap Yes Please also wasn t getting real stellar ratings and reviews so I decided to err Find all of my reviews at Good Christ just obtaining a library copy of this f % g book was like going on an adventure After my third trek down to the local bibliotheca, I finally had success Look at the happy You re probably asking yourself if she s such a Poehler fangirl, why didn t she just go to the BN and grab herself a copy Well, you see I am cheap Yes Please also wasn t getting real stellar ratings and reviews so I decided to err on the side of caution Turns out reading a synopsis can be really helpful sometimes You see, the blip pretty much lays it right out there that this is a book containing real life advice and words to live by If you re expecting another Bossy Pants or Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me , you aren t going to find it here...This was pretty good I have the paperback but I listened to it on audio She read the book herself and I love that You get all of the true feelings when they read their own work I loved looking at all of the pictures in the book as well My copy is a small paperback and it has those soft glossy pages that you love to snif And all bookaholics know what I mean I actually sat down my phone to sniff the book again while reviewing The book is set up in different sections as well I have to This was pretty good I have the paperback but I listened to it on audio She read the book herself and I love that You get all of the true feelings when they read their own work I loved looking at all of the pictures in the book as well My copy is a small paperback and it has those soft glossy pages that you love to snif And all bookaholics know what I mean I actually sat down my phone to sniff the book again while reviewing The book is set up in different sections as well I have to admit I have ne we watched Parks and Recreation but I did ad...Inspired me to continue on watching Parks Rec Very much enjoyed this, and I loved how Amy brought in others to help voice some sections of the book.HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE AUDIOBOOK Amy Poehler is so genuine and awesome On the audiobook she has special guests, a live audience for the final chapter, lots of random conversation, and all sorts of extra awesomness LOVED THIS DWhelp, look for a flood of reviews coming in, cleaning out my bedroom office before I go on the road for book tour That also includes a lot of autobiographies I read as research pleasure in the last year, preparing and writing my book that I need to add to Goodreads.I had to cut myself off from reading books in this category, actually, because I started getting intimidated and comparing my structure writing to other peoples autobiography structure writing which only served to paralyze me and Whelp, look for a flood of reviews coming in, cleaning out my bedroom office before I go on the road for book tour That also includes a lot of autobiographies I read as research pleasure in the last year, preparing and writing my book that I need to add to Goodreads.I had to cut myself off from reading books in this category, actually, because I started getting intimidated and comparing my structure writing to other peoples autobiography structure writing which only served to paralyze me and make me play video games instead of getting my own draft done So I binged a lot of books the last few months in this category because my book is done and almost out and I c...

Yes Please
  • English
  • 22 January 2019
  • Hardcover
  • 329 pages
  • 0062268341
  • Amy Poehler
  • Yes Please