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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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It is not often one gets the chance to read the memoirs of someone who has has the dubious distinction of having been made into a Pez dispenser. In Wishful Drinking, Star Wars icon Carrie Fisher has plenty of stories to tell about that and many other fascinating subjects including being raised by famous, scandal-plagued parents, her drug abuse and mental disorder, marriage to Paul Simon, her recent electroconvulsive therapy, and what it's like when a gay republican dies in your bed.Carrie Fisher

Do you have a friend, who no matter how much you like her, you have to acknowledge is a horrible story teller? She tells them with too much back story, and after every overlong vignette concludes she pauses expectantly waiting for you to crack up at just how hysterical it was that Sarah would say that to Jean in line at the supermarket. Well, now you can have that experience in book form, written by someone who isn't even your friend.

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,

I didnt realize I actually had post-traumatic stress disorder at the time, but why would I think I had that? Anyway, how would I know which was post-traumatic stress, which is addiction, which is bipolar, which is Libra?

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

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