DNF Audiobook Review – Yes, Please by Amy Poehler, Narrated by various (2/5 stars)
Reading Level: Adult
Genre: Autobiography/Humor
Length: 7 hours and 31 minutes
Publisher: HarperAudio
Release Date: October 28, 2014
ASIN: B00MP22QRQ
Stand Alone or Series: Stand Alone
Source: Audiobook from Audible.com
Rating: 2/5 stars
“Amy Poehler is hosting a dinner party and you’re invited! Welcome to the audiobook edition of Amy Poehler’s Yes Please. The guest list is star-studded with vocal appearances from Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Michael Schur, Patrick Stewart, Kathleen Turner, and even Amy’s parents – Yes Please is the ultimate audiobook extravaganza.
Also included? A one-night-only live performance at Poehler’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Hear Amy read a chapter live in front of a young and attractive Los Angeles audience.
While listening to Yes Please, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll become convinced that your phone is trying to kill you. Don’t miss this collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, lists, and haikus from the mind of one of our most beloved entertainers. Offering Amy’s thoughts on everything from her “too safe” childhood outside of Boston to her early days in New York City, her ideas about Hollywood and “the biz”, the demon that looks back at all of us in the mirror, and her joy at being told she has a “face for wigs” – Yes Please is chock-full of words, and wisdom, to live by.”
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.
This book goes towards the following reading challenges:
– Goodreads Reading Challenge