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I have one complaint with this book: it was too short. I really enjoyed myself while listening to the audiobook (which I btw highly recommend), but the audiobook is just 3 hours long. I know that Memoirs etc. are usually on the shorter side, but this was REALLY short. It was a good mix of funny and serious chapters, which I really enjoyed. This book is definitely something for everyone who enjoys Ellen's show and her humor! 3,5/5 stars
A solid 4 stars for this book. I had it as an audiobook and I think it was the best way to enjoy it. Read by Ellen herself, it was really funny and entertaining and had me laughing out loud so many times, for real. I didn't get 5 stars because personally I think there was sometimes too much joking and sillyness in it. Don't get me wrong, I love Ellen for exactly that reason, but at some point it just got too much.
By pure chance, I stumbled upon an audiobook reading of this novel by the author, Ellen DeGeneres, herself and remembered that I'd been planning to read this for quite some time. Since it was only three hours long and I was already procrastinating anyway, I decided to push studying away a little further and be entertained by Ellen in the meantime. I'm not a regular viewer of her talkshow (I wouldn't even know if it is actually broadcast anywhere here in Germany, though I'd doubt that), but I enjoy her humor, respect her opinions and have in the past been entertained by a lot of short videos of her talkshow interviews and games which have been uploaded on YouTube. Hence, I decided to learn a little more about Ellen and listen to her memoir. And the end result is, I know absolutely nothing about her I didn't know before. The book is written in a very unique and entertaining style, and it did make me laugh out quite a number of times, but apart from its funny sections, a lot of the segments in this book appear to be just a collection of random thoughts which don't have anything constructive to contribute. Ultimately, it lacks a destination, which - according to Ellen - shouldn't be a problem in general since the path to your goal is always more important than your goal itself. I agree with that statement, but reading (or listening to) a book without any interesting information doesn't really create an enjoyable experience. The first half was still pretty solid entertainment, but the closer we got to the ending, the more and more boring did it get, to be honest. Ellen is a good entertainer, but this book really would have benefited from a clearer destination.
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I have one complaint with this book: it was too short. I really enjoyed myself while listening to the audiobook (which I btw highly recommend), but the audiobook is just 3 hours long. I know that Memoirs etc. are usually on the shorter side, but this was REALLY short. It was a good mix of funny and serious chapters, which I really enjoyed. This book is definitely something for everyone who enjoys Ellen's show and her humor! 3,5/5 stars
A solid 4 stars for this book. I had it as an audiobook and I think it was the best way to enjoy it. Read by Ellen herself, it was really funny and entertaining and had me laughing out loud so many times, for real. I didn't get 5 stars because personally I think there was sometimes too much joking and sillyness in it. Don't get me wrong, I love Ellen for exactly that reason, but at some point it just got too much.
By pure chance, I stumbled upon an audiobook reading of this novel by the author, Ellen DeGeneres, herself and remembered that I'd been planning to read this for quite some time. Since it was only three hours long and I was already procrastinating anyway, I decided to push studying away a little further and be entertained by Ellen in the meantime. I'm not a regular viewer of her talkshow (I wouldn't even know if it is actually broadcast anywhere here in Germany, though I'd doubt that), but I enjoy her humor, respect her opinions and have in the past been entertained by a lot of short videos of her talkshow interviews and games which have been uploaded on YouTube. Hence, I decided to learn a little more about Ellen and listen to her memoir. And the end result is, I know absolutely nothing about her I didn't know before. The book is written in a very unique and entertaining style, and it did make me laugh out quite a number of times, but apart from its funny sections, a lot of the segments in this book appear to be just a collection of random thoughts which don't have anything constructive to contribute. Ultimately, it lacks a destination, which - according to Ellen - shouldn't be a problem in general since the path to your goal is always more important than your goal itself. I agree with that statement, but reading (or listening to) a book without any interesting information doesn't really create an enjoyable experience. The first half was still pretty solid entertainment, but the closer we got to the ending, the more and more boring did it get, to be honest. Ellen is a good entertainer, but this book really would have benefited from a clearer destination.