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Wishful Drinking
Carrie Fisher

Simon & Schuster, 2008

8 reviews
Carrie Fisher

Pocket, 1995

Laugh Out Loud Funny
Definitely read this with a friend in the room. (One who doesn't mind being interrupted while you read aloud from every other page.) This book is full of the type of wit that I wish I possessed. Not for people who like a very straight-foward plot. It is a bit overpowered by the prose, but with prose like this who cares? I reached the end and immediately wanted to either start over or invite ...

The Best Awful: A Novel

40 reviews
Carrie Fisher

Simon & Schuster, 2004

The Best Best Awful
Carrie Fisher is a brilliant author, mother and gadabout in Hollywood. She manages to prove this and more in the aptly titled "The Best Awful". It doesn't get any more grittier, funnier or insane. This loosely based autobiography had me trying to figure out who some of these fictional characters were. Although some are loosely veiled, there were others that I had to do some research on to figure ...

Postcards from the Edge

16 reviews
Carrie Fisher

Picador, 1991

Hollywarts!
Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographical first novel gives a behind-the scenes look at the gloom behind the glamour. The only thing funnier is the movie. Fisher shows a wicked sense of humor as well as a talent for storytelling. Of course she knows the business; she's been known to act in films.

Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood
Lauren Greenfield

Chronicle Books, 2004

Bargain Books are non-returnable. Now available in paperback, Lauren Greenfield's acclaimed Fast Forward is a powerful look at Los Angeles youth culture and its influence on the rest of our society. From the affluent children of the Westside to the graffiti gangs and party crews of East LA, young Angelenos reckon with an overwhelming barrage of advertising and entertainment images emphasizing money, possessions, and eternal youth. This ...

Surrender the Pink (Spec Sales)

13 reviews
Carrie Fisher

Vintage, 1991

Funny and eloquently written
I have to say that I didn't know anything about Carrie Fisher before I started reading Surrender the Pink. So I just enjoyed the book without having any preconceived notions about it. For the first 60 pages or so I didn't find the plot all too engaging, but it kind of picked up when Dinah travelled east. What I really enjoyed about this book were the language, mostly the dialogues. There is ...

Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood

1 review
Richard Rodriguez, Lauren Greenfield, ...

Amazon Remainders Account, 2004

Superb In Every Respect
From the Introduction by Carrie Fisher, the extraordinary photographs by a young photographer, Lauren Greenfield (whose subsequent work more than justified our excitement over this book), to the afterword by Richard Rodriquez, who unfailingly expresses in the most sparse and articulate prose, the exact phrase to describe what we all wish we had the power to think and say, this is a book of ...