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thebitterguySo, I finished Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking last night.
I was expecting a harrowing tale of addiction, maybe about how her coke habit and her film-making collided. Some stuff on her marriage (specifically to Paul Simon) and a bit on her diagnosis with Bipolar and her treatment.
You... You KIND of get that.
The problem with this book is.. Wow, there ain't much here. It's 156 pages. That's a short book. It features generous use of fonts and margins. Look, I figured out that trick in high school. The best part of it is the cover. But if you're reading it for stuff about Star Wars, you'll be dissapointed.
Fisher has a great way with words. I loved reading her telling of her parents marriage and its breakup. I can't get enough talk about Eddie Fisher's penis. And the stuff about going to New York to work in a broadway show with her mum is good.
But if someone is selling "how I was drugged out of my skull while making some small independant movies in the late '70s/early '80s you might have seen", they should give us more than just a reiteration of George Lucas' directing style ("Faster! More intense!") and adventures in being an action figure/PEZ dispenser.
If the combination of drug abuse and ECT therapy have rendered her unable to remember the period (a defense she offers up herself in the early parts of the book), that's something I'd like to hear more about.
That's just my fanboyism being a dick, I guess. What there is of the book does an ok job covering her life so far, and I'm glad to know which Paul Simon songs refer to her (Graceland, Allergies and Hearts and Bones).
Fisher is very, very funny. The bit about waking up in bed with a gay, drug using Republican? Who among us, right? I wish now she'd done a Q&A at FanExpo last year, or that her stage show had come to town.
In the end, yeah, I'm glad to have gotten this through the MPL, but it was an enjoyable read for a distracted evening.
*I present a link to pics of Carrie Fisher from when she was making Empire to make up for the omission.
I was expecting a harrowing tale of addiction, maybe about how her coke habit and her film-making collided. Some stuff on her marriage (specifically to Paul Simon) and a bit on her diagnosis with Bipolar and her treatment.
You... You KIND of get that.
The problem with this book is.. Wow, there ain't much here. It's 156 pages. That's a short book. It features generous use of fonts and margins. Look, I figured out that trick in high school. The best part of it is the cover. But if you're reading it for stuff about Star Wars, you'll be dissapointed.
Fisher has a great way with words. I loved reading her telling of her parents marriage and its breakup. I can't get enough talk about Eddie Fisher's penis. And the stuff about going to New York to work in a broadway show with her mum is good.
But if someone is selling "how I was drugged out of my skull while making some small independant movies in the late '70s/early '80s you might have seen", they should give us more than just a reiteration of George Lucas' directing style ("Faster! More intense!") and adventures in being an action figure/PEZ dispenser.
If the combination of drug abuse and ECT therapy have rendered her unable to remember the period (a defense she offers up herself in the early parts of the book), that's something I'd like to hear more about.
That's just my fanboyism being a dick, I guess. What there is of the book does an ok job covering her life so far, and I'm glad to know which Paul Simon songs refer to her (Graceland, Allergies and Hearts and Bones).
Fisher is very, very funny. The bit about waking up in bed with a gay, drug using Republican? Who among us, right? I wish now she'd done a Q&A at FanExpo last year, or that her stage show had come to town.
In the end, yeah, I'm glad to have gotten this through the MPL, but it was an enjoyable read for a distracted evening.
*I present a link to pics of Carrie Fisher from when she was making Empire to make up for the omission.
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Date: 2009-01-19 08:17 pm (UTC)Re: fanboyz
Date: 2009-01-20 07:59 pm (UTC)