Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Published 2014 · 55,000 words · about 4 hours at an average pace · Arts & Culture, Memoir & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Satire & Humor
How hard is Yes Please to read?
Yes Please scores 14 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 15 out of 100
- Casual, conversational vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 18 out of 100
- Abstraction: 12 out of 100
- Concrete personal stories and observations.
- Information density: 28 out of 100
- Light and fast. Entertainment-driven.
- Narrative indirection: 12 out of 100
- Non-linear. Jumps between formats and time periods.
- Symbolic density: 80 out of 100
- Minimal symbolism. Direct comic voice.
- Ironic distance: 18 out of 100
- Self-deprecation that undercuts inspirational impulses.
- Resolution withholding: 80 out of 100
- Each section delivers its own payoff.
- Structural complexity: 15 out of 100
- Fragmented format: essays, lists, letters, guest pieces.
How Yes Please is regarded
Yes Please holds a literary regard score of 31 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.