Wishful Drinking
by Carrie Fisher
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Book Reviews of Wishful Drinking
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: Brave Woman, Amusing Memoir
Summary: 3 Stars
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Carrie Fisher's memoir is written in a humorous and entertaining style. It's a short read with large type and pictures, filled mostly with musings by Carrie Fisher on her unusual life and on living with bipolar illness and addiction. It seemed very authentic, and I enjoyed it.
I would recommend it for anyone interested in celebrity culture, but also for those readers interested in successfully living with mental illness.
I gave this book only three stars, because although I enjoyed it, I didn't think it was very substantial for the price (just over 150 pages) and because I didn't think it was that well written. However, I admire Carrie Fisher for her courage and am glad she decided to share her experience with us.
Recommended, with caveats.
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Book Review: Star Bores
Summary: 1 Stars
Carrie Fisher is sinking faster than the Titanic. This book handles and
reads like a self-published book by anyone in anytown U.S.A. As a media
darling, she owes it to her fans to produce something worthwhile or not
at all. Blame should go to the agent and publisher as well, but I guess
everyone is in it for the almighty dollar and not concerned with producing readable art worth $20.00. Carrie seems to be in some kind of
crisis mode (appearance at the Tony Awards). She was unrecognizable with
her weight gain. Bipolar flares horrendously during menopause and I fear
that has happened to her. Perhaps her next book will be sassy one liners
on hot flashes and diet gurus. I gave up on this book halfway through and
went on to read Chelsea Handler's book.
Book Review: Very short and not much to it
Summary: 2 Stars
I suspect this is the script for the stage show Fisher does, also called Wishful Drinking. The font is big, and the book is double spaced with blank pages before chapters, and it's still a short book! And there's a lot of photos. You can easily read it in 90 minutes. Parts of it repeat other parts, just Carrie being witty and conversational. She jumps all over the place chronologically. It's really not an autobiography, but more a series of examples of why she's the way she is. Although it's kind of hard to sympathize when life also handed out a lot of breaks and benefits "normal" people don't get, and some of the normal people have it hard, too, so don't envy us normal people that much. Normal is not all it's cracked up to be.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.
Thanks!