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A provocative, uproarious memoir based on the author's one-woman show describes growing up with celebrity parents, her early success in Star Wars, demanding professional life, battle with addiction and mental illness, turbulent romances, role as a single mother, and struggle for recovery and healing. 150,000 first printing.

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Starred Review. Fisher has fictionalized her life in several novels (notably Postcards from the Edge), but her first memoir (she calls it a really, really detailed personals ad) proves that truth is stranger than fiction. There are more juicy confessions and outrageously funny observations packed in these honest pages than most celebrity bios twice the length. After describing how she underwent electroshock therapy for her manic depression, Fisher then sorts through her life as her memories return. She predicts that by the end of the book, you'll feel so close to me that you'll want to divorce me. At one point, this daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher (one an icon, the other an arm piece to icons) hilariously diagrams her family tree of Hollywood marriages and remarriages to make sure her daughter's potential date is not a relative. Revealing that at 15 she got a vibrator for Christmas from her mother, she writes, You might be thinking that a lot of the stories I'm telling you are over the top... but you can't imagine what I'm leaving out. With acerbic precision and brash humor, she writes of struggling with and enjoying aspects of her alcoholism, drug addiction and mental breakdowns. Her razor-sharp observations about celebrity, addiction and sexuality demand to be read aloud to friends. (Dec.)
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Carrie Fisher became a cultural icon as Princess Leia in the first Star Wars trilogy. She starred in countless films, including Shampoo and When Harry Met Sally. She is the author of Shockaholic; Wishful Drinking (which became a hit Broadway production); and four bestselling novels, Surrender the Pink, Delusions of Grandma, The Best Awful, and Postcards from the Edge.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; 1st edition (December 2, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 163 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1439102252
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1439102251
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1 x 8.75 inches

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Carrie Fisher, the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, became an icon when she starred as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy. Her star-studded career included roles in numerous films such as The Blues Brothers and When Harry Met Sally. She was the author of six bestselling books, most recently The Princess Diarist.

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MossPeach

All Over the Freaking Place

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2023

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This book is all over the freaking place but hysterical. We love Carrie Fisher's political stance. At times I had trouble following the book a little bit but honestly never stopped laughing.

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Garren M. Jakubiak

The martini glass on the cover is considerably deeper than this book.

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I should first say that I truly wanted to enjoy Carrie Fisher's book, "Wishful Drinking". In spite of its flaws, I finished the book, hunting to the last for some reasoning or moral concept within its pages, and the only conclusion I came to is that $9.99 was better spent elsewhere.

The first issue I had with "Wishful Drinking" was its lack of content. It certainly contains a few funny anecdotes, but they're of the "Heh." variety rather than the rolling on the floor sort. The vast majority of the anecdotes presented lack substance as she retells stories that were likely far more hilarious at the time that they occurred. For the observer, they lack the depth to hit home. For Star Wars fans, there really isn't a boatload of information here...two or three offhand references, a surprisingly low amount. This leads to my next issue.

Problem number two is that the book serves as a narrative spouting of issues for Carrie Fisher. Prior to reading "Wishful Drinking", I had no idea of her history of substance abuse problems in conjunction with a bipolar condition. This is an unwelcome revelation, but could at least serve as kindling to create a great big firestorm of a book. The issue is that Carrie Fishers writing style too greatly illustrates that she has had substance abuse and bipolar issues...her book lacks organization or structure, is devoid of context, and often lacks coherent thought. Unfortunately, her personal narrative presents as a disjointed and confusing babble rather than as personal conversation with the reader. This book could very easily have been written in a day or two, with absolutely no preparation or design.

To end, I had one final issue with this book. In a personal outpouring of her soul, or in a heartfelt retelling of past struggles, you will find no less conscientious or regretful a soul than Carrie Fisher. As she recounts her dark days of substance and alcohol abuse, you will find that there is no moral discovery or explanation of the impact that such problems have had on her family. The revelations of substance abuse serve only to introduce substance-void narratives, such as the time she spoke on the phone to Cary Grant (I'm sure it was much more interesting if you were there) or the none-too-regretful feeling of a woman proclaiming to the world "I've got substance abuse issues and I'm bi-polar! Whoo crazy lady on the way through, back up back up!" At the end, you will know that she suffers from considerable emotional and substance-abuse related issues, that she feels her mother and her daughter are absolutely awesome, life is pretty great, and there is apparently no negative repercussions from leading such a lifestyle, outside of having to undergo electric shock therapy...which doesn't seem to bother her, and which she apparently feels is pretty awesome.

If you deem to purchase this book, know that it is a manifesto consisting of a shoulder shrug and a swig off a bottle, of a woman quite amused with her own abuse problems, who will look at you from the pages of this book and say "Yeah I've got a problem, so what?"

I truly wish I had loved this book, but this pond is far too shallow for Carrie Fisher to actually reflect in.

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This is just the very Best book I have read in my (messed up) adulthood. And I only saw the original Star Wars in the theater as a child! There ends my familiarity with Ms. Fisher as an actress. But, she is a Highly Intelligent and mucho humerouso (sp.) human being. I feel blessed to be allowed access to her quirky, honest mind. If only all us humans were so hard on ourselves, and so (mostly) forgiving of those whom err against us in life. Please read this and all her other tomes!

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Princess Leia In A Real Woman--Carrie Fisher

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I wish Carrie Fisher had not died so that we could benefit from her self-deprecating humor over and over. She is funny and made her mental illness, alcoholism, and drug addiction seem like a lark. It was not! The fact that she survived it, could function, and actually be productive says much for the strength of addicts. I got this book after she died. I might not have bothered if she had not died so suddenly. I am glad I read it. I wish she was still with us because she is one of a kind and so was her mother. The book is easy to read, kinda like the way she gave interviews, not too serious and sometimes hard to follow but she was medicated most of the time. Being raised in the circus that is Hollywood and born to two of the most iconic members of the 50's, survived the departure of her father for her mother's best friend (who happened to be Elizabeth Taylor), I'd say she turned out better than expected. She says her brother got the good genes and had no issues with drugs or alcohol. You don't much about him either do you. It's always the 'sick ones' that get the attention. Anyway, this is a short book and is more a dialogue between Carrie and her audience and in fact this was her one woman stage play. Wish I could have seen it. I will miss Princess Leia.

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Carrie had a way with words. A quirky take on life

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2023

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And a self-preservation type humor that kept me entertained. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Also Shopaholic. Her book previus to Wishful Drinking.

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Graham

hilarious

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 2, 2023

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She had an interesting life, some equally interesting problems that she described with humour. I was laughing for a lot of this.

C. Harrison

Wishful drinkinh

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A bitter sweet memoir, hilarious in places , hearbreaking in others.

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Ultimately this is a sad book because she has passed away but she was witty& Self depricating& at times this is a very very funny book

Yanna Wolff

One of my favorite books

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This little book is filled with humour, sadness, hope and all other types of emotions you don't wanna miss in a good afternoon read. I didn't know Carrie Fisher had so many talents besides acting before I read this book, luckily a good friend recommended her to me. Her writing is brutally honest but also very sweet and I found it impossible to not fall in love with her as a person when reading this book. Unlike so many other celebrities' books, this doesn't feel like a self-glorifying PR stunt - just an honest, funny and witty story of a woman who is very relatable and feels close to home.

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