Bossypants

I did not read the book; rather, I listened to it on a Playaway from the library. I'm confident that I made the right choice because the author narrates the book, giving the stories real life. I would not have been able to hear the stories in her voice. Overall, it's funny and entertaining - I loved her unsolicited advice and opinions, no nonsense self-deprecation, and stories about family and love and learning. I did not love the detailed stuff about particular shows that feel too...too, um, close to the shows. Since I've never seen 30 Rock, I couldn't understand any of the discussion about the writers and actors and their MVP jokes. It felt like a list...a list that your friend is just rattling off about work or their kids that you just don't care.

Pick up the audio book if you want to laugh a little and are either: a) madly in love with all the shows that Tina Fey has been involved with or b) able to happily ignore the parts that will be boring to you.

I listened to the audiobook version read by the author.

Parts of this book had me laughing aloud. Tina did great with the voices and characters in her reading. She had some great advice. There were parts that I didn't love. A number of pieces just sounded like complaints. She's definitely somebody you don't want to anger. For that reason, I got the impression she'd be the boss you feared instead of your new best friend.

I did enjoy this more than Amy Poehler's audiobook, but didn't love it nearly as much as I loved Mindy Kaling's books.

So funny!!!!! Glad that I picked this up in audio book form, it really made the whole experience more enjoyable because Tina Fey herself read it.
Some parts were a bit draggy but Tina is so funny that I didn't mind listening to her ramble on and on.
My first audio book and my first autobiography - confident that I made the right choice by choosing Bossypants to widen my reading horizons.

I listened to the audiobook from the library for this, it adds a lot since Tina Fey herself narrates, doing impressions and sarcastic voices and all that.

There are some interesting insights into 30 Rock and SNL, but a lot of the book deals with her growing up as a young woman and is written to be relatable to other women, and while it was entertaining in parts, I definitely felt like I was missing something since I'm outside of the target audience.

A lot of her jokes are borderline uncomfortably stereotypical as well, be it race or sexual orientation... Not always offensive, sometimes just thrown in for cheap laughs. I found it a bit off putting.

Overall, Fey is charming enough that this works, I was just expecting more.

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Tina Fey is basically my mother except famous and Greek instead of not-famous and German, and reading this made me all nostalgic for home and making fun of people with her. (Because it's not like I live twenty minutes away or anything.) Witty and at times surprisingly introspective, and a good look into the behind-the-scenes life of the comedy circuit.

I sound like a review off a book jacket. Nice.

BLUF: Bossypants is a light, amusing read, but I would have been disappointed if I had bought the book instead of borrowed it.

Bossypants is essentially the ramblings of Tina Fey. This is mostly a benefit as the book reads like you're in a conversation with her. There are instances where I think she purposely made the writing seem awkward or went on a tangent with the humor, but it's exactly what you would expect from the author. (That said, the thing I found most interesting about the book was realizing that Donald Glover worked on 30 Rock.)

There is a downfall if you choose to buy/rent this electronically. All of the asterisks throughout the book correlate with a long list of “footnotes” at the end of the e-book. Even knowing this from the beginning, taking the time to read the correlating asterisk isn't worth it. I guess this doesn't really matter, but they seem amusing.

Hillarious, edgy and downright savage.

Tina Fey straight up roasts a bunch of haters on the internet in the middle of the book.
From her time as a writer on SNL to creating the show 30 Rock, she seems to portray writing a pilot of an episode as an easy job!

Another audiobook that reaffirms, comedians write the best biographies.

Written in her usual self-deprecating style of humor, I found the latter part of her life more interesting than her earlier pre-college days. I'm sure she can write an entire book on her parenting experience in her style of humor. I would read that. I hear that her audio version of this book is way better.

I enjoyed this book on more levels than I expected. Tina Fey is, of course, brilliantly funny, but I also found her life-lessons to be very applicable to the life of a female engineer as well as a female comedian. Apparently, whether I like it or not, I may be a feminist. But just the Tina Fey kind.

Autobiografieën in audioboekvorm, voorgelezen door de persoon die het boek over zichzelf geschreven heeft, dat is nog eens wijs, vind ik.

Bossypants was mij een tijd geleden aangeraden door Audible, ik vermoed omdat ik Steve Martin's (uitstekende) autobiografie Born Standing Up al had gekocht en beluisterd. Of misschien gewoon omdat het een enorme bestseller was, wie weet.

Tina Fey (Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock) sprint zeer luchtig door haar leven. Heel soms dacht ik dat het nu wat ernstiger zou worden, maar neen.

Het heeft allemaal zeer zeer weinig diepgang, het vlindert over en weer van onderwerp naar onderwerp met op het eerste zicht de bedoeling vooral grappig te zijn. Er zitten zeer grappige stukken in, maar humoristisch vignet na humoristisch vignet met hier en daar wat feminisme-light? Zoals dat heet: ik bleef op mijn honger zitten.

Het boek is ook geschreven toen 30 Rock nog niet gedaan was, wat het wellicht niet evident maakte, maar dat mag geen excuus zijn. Ik had er meer van verwacht.