About this title: In WISHFUL DRINKING, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked to play a princess in a little movie called Star Wars when only 19 years old. "But it isn't all sweetness and light sabres." Alas, aside from a demanding career and her role as a single mother (not to mention the hyperspace hairdo), Carrie also spends her free time battling addiction, weathering the wild ride of manic depression and lounging around various mental institutions. It's an incredible tale - from having Elizabeth Taylor as a stepmother ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781439153710ISBN:143915371X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2008-12-02
ISBN-13:9781439102251ISBN:1439102252
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Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780743597173ISBN:0743597176
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Binding: Spoken Word Compact Disc
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2009-02-17
ISBN-13:9780743597173ISBN:0743597176
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781439153710ISBN:143915371X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781439102251ISBN:1439102252
Description: New in new dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 163 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
"Reading Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking is like being in the audience of her one woman show: laugh out funny, but not a comprehensive memoir. After undergoing shock therapy to treat her depression and suffering the resulting memory loss, Fisher decides to tell her story both to reclaim memories and as a cathartic experience. Lucky us! Fisher has a gift in storytelling and doesn't hold much back in the way of secrets -- unlike a lot of Hollywood "tell alls" which tell little and are mainly PR pieces for the named celebrity.
Fisher's skewers various life episodes for our entertainment and hers. I laughed 'til I cried when I read Fisher's hysterical recounting of her family tree (with diagrams!) to explain to her daughter, Billie, who was interested in Elizabeth Taylor's grandson Rhys that "they are related by scandal." Fisher's mother Debbie Reynolds is portrayed as an eccentric (e.g. wanting to smoke pot with Fisher), but loving mother. While Fisher's father, Eddie Fisher, is described more by what he is not: an involved parent or even a mature adult. The remainder of this short tome addresses Fisher's bouts of depression, bipolarism, alcoholism, fame and rollercoaster relationship with Paul Simon. These are not usually funny subjects, but Fisher has a way with "gallows humor."
One note of caution: Fisher uses a fair amount of salty language and frankly describes several adult topics. Still if you are not easily offended and want a humorous, fast, read I highly recommend Wishful Drinking. Better still buy the audio version and let Fisher herself share the story that only she can tell!"
"Carrie Fisher has a gift--she is able to take the facts about horrific events in her life (drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, electroshock therapy, learning that her husband is gay a year into her marriage (while she is pregnant with their child), and waking up one morning with a dead friend in bed beside her) and making it funny. I listened to the audio book and I highly recommend it--that is if you can live with yourself after driving down the interstate laughing out loud about a fellow human being's mental illness that is so serious that it almost kills her. I did and apparently I can. This book is based on Fisher's one-woman stage show and the fact that Fisher reads the book itself adds infinitely to the pleasure. One of the highlights (and there are so many) is the diagram of the in-breeding that exists and has always existed in Hollywood. Fisher patiently takes the reader through the relationships, marriages, and divorces that finally links, through a teenage flirtation, her daughter and Elizabeth Taylor's grandson. There is a story in this book about everyone--Harrison Ford's weed during the filming of Star Wars, and oh, one of my favorites, the reason that Carrie Fisher had to go commando during the filming of Star Wars was George Lucas's firm believe that there is no underwear in space. And there's more where these came from. Fun, fun, fun. I am now firmly entrenched in the Carrie Fisher fan club."
"This is a memoir written by Carrie, a.k.a. Princess Leia from Star Wars. I know she's done lots of other films, but she will always be Princess Leia to me! I thought this book was milidly entertaining. I haven't read any of her previous books so I didn't have anything to compare this one with. It was sort of interesting being a voyeur into a celebrity (and child of celeb parents) life. The first thing that struck me about the book when I opened it (love the cover art btw) was how large print the font was. I guess her writing was so sparse, they had to beef up the font to make it to over 100 pages? Kind of funny, IMO. The writing itself was amusing and entertaining, which I believe what she was going for. She very humorously points to her addictions with alcohol and drugs. I don't know. When people talk about their addictions, I'd always love to hear some of the bottom of the barrel type of descriptions. I was hoping for a bit more nitty and gritty and I mostly got candy coated entertainment. Meh."
"I met Carrie Fisher once at a party in Montecito. I had no idea what to say to her since I couldn't stand to be one more person who said, "I saw you in Star Wars." I felt I should be able to come up with some thing more normal, you know? And after reading this book, I'm sure that's what should have happened. Because no one needs to have the not-normal-ness of their life pointed out by random strangers when they are clearly already very aware of it."
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