Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
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Book Reviews of Wishful Drinking
Book Review: Princess Leia Tells All...
Summary: 5 Stars
After four hit novels, one of which became a feature film, and after an iconic time as Princess Leia of Star Wars, Carrie Fisher comes "clean" with a memoir about what it's like to be a product of "Hollywood in-breeding". A term she has coined to describe the Hollywood royalty, Fisher reveals her life from the inside - the scandals, the marriages and remarriages of each of her parents, and her own marriage to Paul Simon.
With a disarming wit and self-deprecatory tone, Fisher shares about her addictions, her bipolar disorder, and her wonderful daughter, who, at fifteen, is amazingly "together", despite the drama of Fisher's own life.
Some of her experiences were described in her novels - "Postcards from the Edge" became a movie with Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine - but her psychiatric diagnoses came later.
Wishful Drinking is a book for anyone who felt less than perfect, but survived anyway.
By Laurel-Rain Snow
Author of:
Web of Tyranny, etc.
Book Review: Get it on audiobook
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is best as the unabridged audiobook read by the author herself! Much like David Sedaris, the only person that can fully convey the emotional impact and placement of emphasis in their experiences, is the author themselves. After listening to this three hour conversation with Carrie, as she does ask rhetorical questions of her reader/audiences, I wondered why she has not reached the level of gay icon status as Cher or Liza. The woman smoked Harrison Ford's dope, she turns men bald and gay, was the daughter of a gay icon (which gives you 10 points automatically), and has her fair share of True Hollywood Story moments - I mean come on! Has your mother given you a vibrator for Christmas, no? Only Carrie? Find out she ended up with a dead gay Republican in her bed...as one does and several other intriguing stories! A new tour of the one woman show also titled "Wishful Drinking" is being planned for 2009, so if you like Margaret Cho, Sarah Silverman, and Kathy Griffin and want to go a bit old school Enquirer - than make it a point to see her live!Book Review: Growing up in make believe land
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed this book. I enjoy Carrie Fisher's obvious love affair with words. I love words also and rejoice when I find this showing in someone else's writing. Carrie turns tragedy into comedy in a very endearing way. I have had problems with depression most of my life and always thought a touch of mania would be really nice. In fact, it would be only fair. I get all the down time without the highs. But her description of mania makes me reconsider. I love the stories she tells about her life, the chart to show how her daughter is connected to Elizabeth Taylor's grandson. The way her mother calls from next door to say, "Good Morning, Carrie. It's your mother, Debby," as if she had to distinguish herself from Carrie's other mothers who might call. It is a tale of a very strange childhood and young adulthood, with a highly unsual family (not that it was unusual to her) and told with much levity, tremendous honesty and very little self pity. Good for a pick-me-up and a lot of laughing-out-loud moments.
Book Review: If you are a fan of hers you will not be disappointed
Summary: 5 Stars
Ok Carrie, when did you marry Billie's father?
News to me.
I have been a fan of Carrie's for nearly 30 years. Guess that makes me bad being a fan since "Star Wars". She does bad mouth her fame & the success of the film. For all the bad points of it it did make you money remember that. Best I can call what she says.
Photos throughout as well. A disappointment was seeing all the "Star Wars" & "Jedi" photos we have seen a million times. Guess "Empire" did NOT matter as no photos from it. I was glad to see the rarer photos-just needed more of them.
Her wit is seen through out the book. I enjoyed that, her twists on things & how she puts things.
CARRIE, YOU NEED TO TAKE BETTER CARE OF YOURSELF.
No mention of Belshui or Dan Aykroyd, who she was supposed to have been engaged to years ago.
And, I did think the book should have been longer.
Or, will there be a part 2 Carrie?
Book Review: In and Out, In and Out...
Summary: 5 Stars
...That being how I went in dodging chunks of dry ice and came out turning pages unlike I expected. I always say the most prophetic writers have inherited enormous amounts of pain, which Carrie I count among prophetic writers.
Dark humor?
On this one I can assert with a certain amount of certainty that trying to stifle laughing will not be an option. I don't know how many times I kept saying, "Awl... that's so not fun--" when up from the sternum bursts this uncontrollable laugh that I'm gonna have to argue, was without my consent.
Won't admit just where I laughed, but I will give prospective readers this one little hint--Every Page! Sometimes even twice on the same page!!! The cover, both intriguing and scenic, appropriately sums up for me the tattle-tell of what the grass really must look like on other sides.
Painful observations (for me as a reader). Poignant candor (for Carrie as an author). My rating: 4.5 Stars...