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Wishful Drinking

Carrie Fisher

Hardcover | Pages: 163 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 60391 Users | 6715 Reviews

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Title	:	Wishful Drinking
Author	:	Carrie Fisher
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 163 pages
Published	:	December 2nd 2008 by Simon & Schuster
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Humor. Audiobook

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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, to marrying (and divorcing) Paul Simon, from having the father of her daughter leave her for a man, to ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.

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Original Title:	Wishful Drinking
ISBN:	1439102252 (ISBN13: 9781439102251)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album (2010)

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Picked this up on a whim at the used bookstore. Glad I did it was a quick, highly entertaining read. It's based on the show Carrie Fisher was doing at the time and reads like that. It definitely seems a bit scattered at times but given the subject matter it's to be expected. I really enjoyed Carrie's perspective on addiction and mental illness. Plus, her perspective on celebrity was great. Check out this quote..."Anyway, at a certain point in my early twenties, my mother started to become

God I miss Carrie Fisher

Turning to the first of her short memoirs, I was faced with some of Carrie Fisher's most interesting sentiments and humorous anecdotes detailing a life about which I knew very little. Fisher adds as an opening disclaimer that she underwent electro-convulsive therapy (ECT), which erased some of her past memories, so things within these pages might not be as clear or succinct as their actual occurrences. Born in the worst possible situation, the offspring of two Hollywood stars, Carrie Fisher

Wishful Drinking seems like it should be a story that wallows in sadness, but luckily it has a good balance of honesty and humor and breaks through the glamor of the acting world to share the story of a young single mother (who might be better recognized as Princess Leia from the Star Wars franchise) coping with alcoholism and mental illness in a world where such things are generally frowned upon. This is the kind of memoir that really sticks with you after you've read it, it isn't too

Hilarious! Of course I know Carrie Fisher from her Star Wars fame and knew she had written some books. But I had no clue how funny she was. Her writing is so casualespecially listening to the audiobook which she narrates, it feels like a close friend telling you stories of her lifebut she has a depth and sophistication which is unmatched by many celebrity memoirs. I wish this had been ten times as long! I could listen to her for hours and hours. Definitely going to check out more of her books,

The sad thing about this book is that my favorite part was the cover. I mean, that's a brilliant cover!But overall? Not the book I was hoping for. Fisher seems to have mostly transcribed her one-woman show, and the problem is, what works for a performance doesn't hold up very well as a book. Everything's sort of glossed over with self-deprecating jokes, and there's not a real sense of narrative or much in the way of self-reflection. I didn't really want a celebrity tell-all, but I would really

WISHFUL DRINKING is a short, but interesting memoir surrounding Carrie Fisher's life growing up in a celebrity household, (parents Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher) her addictions, electroshock therapy, bipolar disorder and after effects of playing Princess Leia in the epic STAR WARS saga.Written with sarcastic humor and wit, gotta give her credit for laying it all out there, and persevering to overcome her demons.Just ok for me.