This is an unbelievably short read -- like a couple of hours and poof, it is done. It seemed a little scattered, like she would say something, like "aliens landed on our front lawn, no kidding." And then the next paragraph would talk about something else, like her mother is her neighbor. Kind of a lot of those "huh?" moments. Maybe she was drinking when she wrote it?
Anyway, it was fine and I am sure growing up in her world was pretty freaky, and from where I stand it seems that the majority of celebrity children are pretty screwed up, so I think my children should thank me everyday that I am NOT a celebrity. But then again they lost the opportunity to write a book about it. Oh well.
Oddly enough, this morning Carrie Fisher was on the Bonnie Hunt show, and as I was making my smoothie I was listening to her spout the words verbatim that I had just read. Like, the woman needs new material! I guess the book is just a hardcopy of the act she takes on the road -- and as I watched her saying them, I realized that what the book lacks is her SAYING them! Because you can jump from subject to subject and not finish sentences when you are speaking -- and it works. But when you are reading it it seems disjointed.
So, she has written novels before, so she has the capacity to write. I think this is just a lazy version of her act on paper. To be a book it needs more depth.
So I would not recommend it.
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Hmmm...who was Carrie Fisher's parents???
And don't worry, even though you weren't a real celebrity you certainly acted like one at times. Haha
HAHAHA, well, I am a legend in my own mind, true, true.
Carrie's parents were Eddie Fisher, he was a singer/bit actor, and her mom is Debbie Reynolds. She describes her parents as the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie of the era she grew up in. Though her parents were only married a short time -- but I guess the whole celebrity thing is forever, no one cares if the marriage fails.
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