Product Description 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.
Wishful .. . for more January 8, 2009 Wishful Drinking
"We put the book together quickly, because the publisher[Simon & Shuster] was eager to get it out before christmas, Fisher explains. "I was doing the book and the show at the same time".
Wishful Drinking, is based on the one-woman show Fisher perform's based on the better part's of this slim volume and based on her recent highly entertaining interview with Al Roker on The Today Show, recommend you see her live and skip this nearly lifeless cash-in.
funny and quick read January 7, 2009 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I received a copy of "wishful thinking" for Christmas. I have already read the whole entire small wollop of a book. It is a look into who she was before she was famous, about her famous parents, and how she came to be famous throughout the trials and tribulations of being on drugs and an alcoholic. Along the way, she uses her wonderful writing and sense of humor which makes this much more bearable and easy to read than some of the other memoirs I've read. I have been a fan of her writing for a while and was not disappointed with this one. It could have been longer, but overall, it was entertaining hearing about her life through her words.
Wishful Drinking January 7, 2009 This book is candid, real, and reads as if Carrie Fisher were reading it to you. I wish I had seen her show that she based this book on, but this is a great second. I highly recommend it to anyone with an open mind and a raw sense of humor.
Quick, Funny, Dry. January 6, 2009 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The literary version of her one woman show is hilariously funny, a bit all over the place, and short enough to read in an hour or two. My regret with the book is not hearing it read by her, as part of it's charm would be her droll delivery. Nothing is dwelled on for very long, from her upbringing, to Star Wars, to her failed marriages. Instead it's all a series of quick burst vignettes that thread their way to the present. However, if you're a fan of Fisher, you'll find there's alot to like besides that Princess Leia coif.
ditto "Avid Reader" January 4, 2009 2 out of 4 found this review helpful
"The only good thing I can say about it is that it was short and you can read it in a couple of hours."
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