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Wishful Drinking
Escrito por Carrie Fisher
Narrado por Carrie Fisher
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Carrie Fisher reads her New York Times Bestselling Memoir!
Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen.
Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). It's an incredible tale: the child of Hollywood royalty -- Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher -- homewrecked by Elizabeth Taylor, marrying (then divorcing, then dating) Paul Simon, having her likeness merchandized on everything from Princess Leia shampoo to PEZ dispensers, learning the father of her daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.
Wishful Drinking, the show, has been a runaway success, Entertainment Weekly declared it "drolly hysterical" and the Los Angeles Times called it a "Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes." This is Carrie Fisher at her best -- revealing her worst. She tells her true and outrageous story of her bizarre reality with her inimitable wit, unabashed self-deprecation, and buoyant, infectious humor.
Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen.
Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). It's an incredible tale: the child of Hollywood royalty -- Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher -- homewrecked by Elizabeth Taylor, marrying (then divorcing, then dating) Paul Simon, having her likeness merchandized on everything from Princess Leia shampoo to PEZ dispensers, learning the father of her daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.
Wishful Drinking, the show, has been a runaway success, Entertainment Weekly declared it "drolly hysterical" and the Los Angeles Times called it a "Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes." This is Carrie Fisher at her best -- revealing her worst. She tells her true and outrageous story of her bizarre reality with her inimitable wit, unabashed self-deprecation, and buoyant, infectious humor.
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Wishful Drinking
Escrito por Carrie Fisher
Narrado por Carrie Fisher
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Carrie Fisher reads her New York Times Bestselling Memoir!
Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen.
Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). It's an incredible tale: the child of Hollywood royalty -- Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher -- homewrecked by Elizabeth Taylor, marrying (then divorcing, then dating) Paul Simon, having her likeness merchandized on everything from Princess Leia shampoo to PEZ dispensers, learning the father of her daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.
Wishful Drinking, the show, has been a runaway success, Entertainment Weekly declared it "drolly hysterical" and the Los Angeles Times called it a "Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes." This is Carrie Fisher at her best -- revealing her worst. She tells her true and outrageous story of her bizarre reality with her inimitable wit, unabashed self-deprecation, and buoyant, infectious humor.
Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen.
Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). It's an incredible tale: the child of Hollywood royalty -- Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher -- homewrecked by Elizabeth Taylor, marrying (then divorcing, then dating) Paul Simon, having her likeness merchandized on everything from Princess Leia shampoo to PEZ dispensers, learning the father of her daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.
Wishful Drinking, the show, has been a runaway success, Entertainment Weekly declared it "drolly hysterical" and the Los Angeles Times called it a "Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes." This is Carrie Fisher at her best -- revealing her worst. She tells her true and outrageous story of her bizarre reality with her inimitable wit, unabashed self-deprecation, and buoyant, infectious humor.
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A memoir read with pitch perfect humor by the author. If you love Star Wars or memoirs on people with addiction or mental illness, this is a great quick read for you.
Further amusing and frank stories from Carrie Fisher's life.
Carrie Fisher had me laughing out loud with this book. It was a very quick and easy read and I loved the way it was written. It felt like she was talking to herself or a good friend and allowing the world to read it. It was a quick read and a lot of fun!
I also thank Fisher for including an ode to mental illness in the author's note. I completely agree that the stigma surrounding mental illnesses needs to be broken and I appreciate the courage in her saying so.
I also thank Fisher for including an ode to mental illness in the author's note. I completely agree that the stigma surrounding mental illnesses needs to be broken and I appreciate the courage in her saying so.
This memoir-adapted from one of her stage shows- gives us such insight to her highs and lows, her challenges with mental health and her sarcastic look at her own life itself. I personally love her sense of humor.Her marriage to Paul Simon; her relationship with her mother, Debbie Reynolds; her drug use and abuse she reveals with honesty and candor. I knew she has had many types of therapy and many psychiatrists but I never knew she had shock treatment. This also relates her experiences working on he 'Star Wars'and its influences on her personally.I thought this was witty and fun to read but also very hard and sad. Recommended
Carrie Fisher had me laughing out loud with this book. It was a very quick and easy read and I loved the way it was written. It felt like she was talking to herself or a good friend and allowing the world to read it. It was a quick read and a lot of fun!
I also thank Fisher for including an ode to mental illness in the author's note. I completely agree that the stigma surrounding mental illnesses needs to be broken and I appreciate the courage in her saying so.
I also thank Fisher for including an ode to mental illness in the author's note. I completely agree that the stigma surrounding mental illnesses needs to be broken and I appreciate the courage in her saying so.
Despite the sometimes dark subject matter, Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher is ultimately a light, quick, and humorous read. Ms. Fisher's ascerbic wit and droll humor make reading about drug addiction, alcoholism and depression entertaining. Carrie Fisher is nothing if not irreverant and funny. Wishful Drinking is packed full of hilarious antedotes about some of old time Hollywood's biggest stars as well as interesting tibits such as the fact that she once dated Senator and former presidential candidate Chris Dodd. It is worth noting that Wishful Drinking can be read in one sitting. It therefore makes the perfect airplane book, but you might want to purcahse it used from Amazon. After reading Wishful Drinking, you'll wish that Carrie was one your friends so that you could call her up on whim to do lunch as she regales you with tales from her unusual Hollywood upbringing....you would be sure to ask about the Christmas when she was 15 and her mother gave both Carrie and Carrie's grandmother vibrators as gifts!
Enjoyed listening to Carrie Fisher read her memoir Wishful Thinking. Having just undergone shock therapy, Fisher shares stories about growing up with famous parents, addiction, mental illness, Star Wars, marriage and love.
With everything Carrie Fisher has gone through in her life, you wonder how she is able to maintain her sense of humor. An extremely witty book that tells her life story as well as what it was like to be the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher as well as her Star Wars experience. She also discusses her addictions and mental illness. Read this in one sitting. The world lost a real wit with her early death. I would have loved to have heard her thoughts on Donald Trump as President.
I've owned this for a long time, but it got lost in my ebook pile. Reading it now was bittersweet. It reads just like her interviews and standup (which isn't surprising, considering). Short, but fun.
"She drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra."
"She drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra."
This was a quick audio book. I enjoyed listening to Carrie tell her stories in her own voice.
In this rambling "memoir" (apparently made up of bits pulled from the author's stage production), Carrie Fisher talks about her life growing up as the child of two celebrities, coming to terms with her own celebrity, and her struggles with addiction and mental illness.An perhaps important confession at the outset of this review is that I've never watched Star Wars and I therefore don't worship at the altar of either Carrie Fisher or Princess Leia. But after her recent death, I read a number of articles about Fisher and she seemed like an interesting person, who embodied some feminist principles I stand behind and who spoke out as a mental illness advocate. So when I noticed this audiobook at my library, I decided to give it a whirl. Those who do love Fisher are likely to be unhappy with my review below.Perhaps because it is based on a standup routine, this memoir is not told in any kind of chronological order, and Fisher ends up repeating herself several times even though it is a short book. She starts with this opening monologue in which she pretends(?) to be spaced out after an electroshock treatment. In this part, she somehow manages to talk a lot without saying much. Fisher moves on to discussing her unusual upbringing, including an ever-changing list of stepparents. She lavishes praise on her mother (the actor Debbie Reynolds) while holding on to an almost teen-aged petulant amount of bitterness toward her father (the singer Eddie Fisher). Moving forward (but also sometimes backwards), she talks about her own career and her uneasy relationship with her own fame, several failed romantic relationships, and substance abuse and mental health issues. Other random stories dip in and out of the narrative, some of which never really feel resolved (e.g., the story of the dead man in her bed).Throughout the book, Fisher seems half spaced out, like some hippie druggie you wouldn't necessarily want to spend a lot of time with if you saw her in public and she wasn't famous. Her raspy voice and her tendency to chuckle at her own stories (even at really inappropriate times, like when relating an anecdote about how her mother was sexually molested by a neighbor as a child) only add to this effect. It wasn't really the best of audiobook experiences. Most of it wasn't particularly enlightening or funny -- but don't get me wrong, there were definitely parts where I chuckled along with her as well. At the very end when she spoke a bit more seriously about mental illness, I was behind her more. All in all, this book was an entertaining enough distraction during my commute, but I was glad it was short as I doubt I would have enjoyed a longer journey into this world. I'm also not sure that I would recommend it, except perhaps to diehard fans.
What makes this memoir enjoyable to read despite the serious nature of the issues covered is Ms. Fisher's great sense of humor and comedic timing. She's particularly honest about her problems but also pretty kind about the people around her.
Overall a pretty entertaining, though thin, memoir. Not really a whole lot of substance (for a book about substance abuse), but a rather interesting look at Carrie Fisher. I had seen her show (same title) on HBO before, and that was pretty entertaining (probably better than the book in retrospect).
This isn't a true autobiography or chronological look at her life, or even a true memoir. Its a bit of a stream of conscious rambling about her ECT, bi-polar, substance abuse, and a overall look at the wacky family she's had. Almost more like an "explanation" for how things turned out and why she is the way she is and why things happened the way they did, more than a true (auto)biography would be.
You quickly pick up on some idiosyncrasies of Fisher and her humor isn't always that funny/entertaining, but generally the rambling stream-of-conscious memoir here is at least for the most part entertaining. Don't go into this looking for a lot of insight on Leia or backstory to Star Wars or even really Carrie Fisher in general. But worth a read all the same.
This isn't a true autobiography or chronological look at her life, or even a true memoir. Its a bit of a stream of conscious rambling about her ECT, bi-polar, substance abuse, and a overall look at the wacky family she's had. Almost more like an "explanation" for how things turned out and why she is the way she is and why things happened the way they did, more than a true (auto)biography would be.
You quickly pick up on some idiosyncrasies of Fisher and her humor isn't always that funny/entertaining, but generally the rambling stream-of-conscious memoir here is at least for the most part entertaining. Don't go into this looking for a lot of insight on Leia or backstory to Star Wars or even really Carrie Fisher in general. But worth a read all the same.
If you're looking for a linear walk-thru of Ms. Fisher's life you will be disappointed and were she to hear of your disappointment she'd probably make a humorous self depreciating remark about that. She is a funny gal, in a "funny because it's true and happened to someone other than me" kind of way.This book feels like a conversation with the Author, she jumps around a bit and one remark can lead down the page to an entirely different story. If you are a fan of Ms. Fisher as a person or as an actress/comedian/activist/badass then you'll like it. The book is a quick but fun read, the kind where you interrupt your spouse repeatedly to read aloud; consumed it in a few giggle infused hours while sipping tea and walked away feeling like I'd just spent the evening talking to her. I'll certainly be seeking out more of her books, biographical or not I know they'll be a hoot.
As fun as this was, it didn't quiiiiite make it past three stars for me. It did make me laugh and it did give me a little bit of insight into Carrie's life. It's very short, so I'd like to read some of her other memoirs to see if they go a little more in depth into her life. I'm glad I read it though, and I will forever laugh at Carrie calling her lady parts her "lagoon of mystery". :D
The Book is good. It has a lovely sense of humor.
A terrible waist of time. Badly written, I did not laugh I did not feel sympathy or compassion. I was just bored.
Great book, I recommend it if you want clever jokes.
Very honest and very funny .
Feels like she’s sitting next to you
And having a friendly chat .
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher (audio) I enjoyed listening to this book, narrated by Princess Leia. Okay, it was narrated by Carrie Fisher.
I found it to be funny and brutally honest, but I didn't discover much that I didn't already know. Plus, I expected it to be longer. It was only a couple of hours and that was it.
I checked this out from my local library, but if I had paid good money for it, I would probably be upset because it was so short.
Overall, I liked it, but I didn't get all that I had expected.
Recommended for those not familiar with Carrie Fisher's story, (does that apply to anyone?)
I found it to be funny and brutally honest, but I didn't discover much that I didn't already know. Plus, I expected it to be longer. It was only a couple of hours and that was it.
I checked this out from my local library, but if I had paid good money for it, I would probably be upset because it was so short.
Overall, I liked it, but I didn't get all that I had expected.
Recommended for those not familiar with Carrie Fisher's story, (does that apply to anyone?)
This book has been on my to read list for a while, it’s really hard to get past the fact Carrie is no longer with us. What an extraordinary mind.
I really like Carrie Fisher.
She's smart, and funny, and honest.
<3
She's smart, and funny, and honest.
<3
This was absolutely amazing, especially because I did it on audio and it's narrated by Carrie. Driving around with this playing feels like Carrie is sitting in your backseat telling you her life story - and what a story it is. I'll definitely be reading her other novels after this. If you've got 3 hours, I highly recommend giving this a listen.
This was quick, amusing read.
A surprisingly candid look at the life of Carrie Fisher. Sometimes serious, often funny, and generally entertaining throughout.
Be aware if you're going to get this book that it isn't a full blown memoir, but instead is a...novelization?...of her one woman show. It trades being poignant (the usual characteristic of celeb bios) for razor sharp wit. Wonderfully vicious and self-depricating. The only complaint I had was that it was so short.
Carrie Fisher cracks me up. I saw her at Dragon*Con last year and she doesn't disappoint her fans in the least. She's both witty and brutally honest.
To start on the positive, this is a very short read!Ok, now that I've got that out of the way, I have to say, I didn't like this book. I am a very sympathetic person, and I really feel for the author's battles with addiction and mental illness. I've had my own! But she comes off, to me, as a very unlikable person, and I didn't really care too much about her as a person. I know it's much, much deeper, but she is a person who came from two rich and famous parents, starred in one of the biggest movies of all time, became an icon, and married one of the greatest singer/songwriters of all time. And it all is told as if she survived some kind of world war (my opinion). For me, it was just hard to read about some complaining about the hardships of being rich and famous. But I do hope she stays sober and wins her battles with her mental health! I just won't read another of her books.
I listened to this as an audiobook. It was read by Carrie Fisher, herself. I have heard her speak, so I have heard many of this before. There are several laugh out loud moments. Most was about how having her very famous parents effected her life as a child.
I've seen Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking act on HBO and I have to say that her book on this same subject is just as funny. If laughter is the best medicine, Ms. Fisher should be well on her way to healing herself.