Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
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Book Reviews of Wishful Drinking
Book Review: Laughing Through the Awful Stuff
Summary: 5 Stars
Hilarious autobiography, taken from the actress's one-woman show. All the juice is in here; personal history with her famous parents (Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds) and their public meltdown over Elizabeth Taylor; her long relationship and short marriage to Paul Simon; her burst of stardom with the Star Wars franchise; but most of all, and overriding all else, Carrie's mental illness. Carrie is bipolar, and was undiagnosed and self-medicating for years and years, which led of course to Carrie being an alcoholic and drug addict. She's now an advocate for electroconvulsive shock therapy, even with the resulting loss of memories that need to be constantly rebuilt. That's not a path for everyone. We all shared this book around the house, and we all laughed out loud. Fisher renders even the most harrowing events of her life with a razor sharp tongue and eye for irony that makes the darkest hours relatable. She's someone I would enjoy hanging out with, crazy and all.Book Review: Glib is An Understatement
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the third in an accidental trilogy, but less momentous than Ms Fisher's first two memoirs. While it seems a cathartic over-indulgence about her electroshock therapy, it is ALWAYS in the range of just funny to hilarious.(Her off-the-subject parenthetical mumblings provide the most clever and raucous laugh-out-loud moments and some real insight into Ms. Fisher's wonderfully twisted, sardonic and sarcastic mind).
The oddity is that you learn more about Ms. Fisher's ditzy and funny mom, Debbie Reynolds--a truly warm accounting of life with a uniqely weird movie star, . If anything, you feel that this book is too short for more than two bathroom readings, and leaves you wanting for more...to read, that is. I would highly recommend this book to both my best friends and worse enemies.
Book Review: Consistent Giggling, interspersed with bouts of Hysterical Laughter
Summary: 5 Stars
This book just saved my life. So I'm reading it again. Funny, witty, candid, honest, clever, fun. It's very short, unfortunately, but feels like a conversation. Can't wait for another. Carrie Fisher has always been known for her humor and wacky stories and this is one of the best she's done. Apparently, all true. She's paid a high price for such a fascinating life, and all that she'll leave behind in books and film is well worth it to the rest of us that enjoy her work in all it's facets.
I recommend this to everyone, because, lets face it, everyone's a little nuts, and it helps to have someone nuttier to laugh at. And relate to. And this makes it all okay.
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Book Review: Another great one!
Summary: 5 Stars
Another wonderfully droll book from Carrie Fisher herself! So I've been really excited about this book ever since I heard that she was writing it, being that I have her four other books and they're all wonderful. It was not a let down. I really enjoyed hearing new tellings of old stories and old tellings of new stories and the wacky observations and incredible wit that she writes with.
I'll admit that a lot of the stories I've heard before in interviews or her other books; but that doesn't mean it was boring, if anything I enjoyed it more the second time around. Read it, enjoy it, love it; because I sure did.
Book Review: If you need a stimulus package........
Summary: 5 Stars
Have always loved black humor and skewed personalities and this book does not fail in both respects. Everybody needs a Carrie Fisher in their life.
A very quick read which I have now sent to a friend who was crying the blues. I know that does nothing for a retailer but it was like sending bandages and blood plasma to her. She called and said "May I keep the book" and I said yes because she decided if Carrie could survive all of the craziness and still find the humor in it she could do likewise. Bravo, Carrie. Love your stuff.