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Great review. Totally agree about the really nice, wonderful, touching moments and how they were nearly washed out by the constant WRITING A BOOK IS SO HARD Y'ALL!! nonsense. Too bad - I had such high hopes!
Agreed. I finished listening to the audiobook just because I started it and wanted to see it though. I felt like she was a little out of touch and hard to relate to. I get that she worked hard to be where she is, but it bothered me when she kept talking about how she knew she'd get to where she was and she deserved it. I felt that sounded a little entitled and frankly, people who are humble about their accomplishments get a lot further with me. The whole book came across as vain to me, and even when she would throw in stories about giving back, forgiving, or admitting to mistakes, the tone came across as she wanted the audience to know how self-aware she was and convince us that she was a good person. I think overall, I was just expecting something different than what I got.
I totally agree. I like her and generally think she's funny but this book felt half-assed, rushed and phoned in.
I was going to write a review...But you've already written it! Thanks!
I came here specifically to see if anyone else was annoyed by, as you put it, "name-dropping and barfing on the pages,". I love Amy Poehler but it's like, we get it, you've got a lot of famous friends - I felt like there were whole essays in the book that were just "I did this thing with this person, and this person, and this person, oh and this person was there too,"
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Nov 10, 2014 11:11AM
Great review. Totally agree about the really nice, wonderful, touching moments and how they were nearly washed out by the constant WRITING A BOOK IS SO HARD Y'ALL!! nonsense. Too bad - I had such high hopes!
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Agreed. I finished listening to the audiobook just because I started it and wanted to see it though. I felt like she was a little out of touch and hard to relate to. I get that she worked hard to be where she is, but it bothered me when she kept talking about how she knew she'd get to where she was and she deserved it. I felt that sounded a little entitled and frankly, people who are humble about their accomplishments get a lot further with me. The whole book came across as vain to me, and even when she would throw in stories about giving back, forgiving, or admitting to mistakes, the tone came across as she wanted the audience to know how self-aware she was and convince us that she was a good person. I think overall, I was just expecting something different than what I got.
I totally agree. I like her and generally think she's funny but this book felt half-assed, rushed and phoned in.
I was going to write a review...But you've already written it! Thanks!
I came here specifically to see if anyone else was annoyed by, as you put it, "name-dropping and barfing on the pages,". I love Amy Poehler but it's like, we get it, you've got a lot of famous friends - I felt like there were whole essays in the book that were just "I did this thing with this person, and this person, and this person, oh and this person was there too,"
