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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

Wishful Drinking

Carrie Fisher

Hardcover | Pages: 163 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 60391 Users | 6715 Reviews

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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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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.

Listened to the audiobook. Very entertaining and funny. Did not know she was married to Paul Simon. When I have more time (or less books I want to read first) I will READ the actual book!

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,

When the original Star Wars trilogy came out, I was too young to have nurtured any grotty, pubescent fantasies about Princess Leia (though I guess by the time of Return of the Jedi, I was old enough to be confusedly excited by those harem scenes with Jabba the Hutt). But now that Ive read Wishful Drinking, I kind of want Carrie Fisher for my girlfriend. Except that shes my mothers age. And shes a recovering alcoholic/drug addict with bipolar disorder and a lavishly messed-up family. Other than

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

A friend let me know about this wonderful audiobook,and I'm so glad she did. I loved it! Loved listening to Carrie's voice for three hours straight. She was so narural as a narrator. And despite talking about very diffucult things,did it with humor. I found myself laughing out loud many times. Being a Star Wars fan,of course my favourite parts were when she talked about that. At the end of the book she reads the,now classic,line of her asking help from Obi Wan. And then goes "I can't forget that