Title: Shockaholic
Author: Carrie Fisher
Rating: ★★★★☆
Blurb: There is no shortage of people flocking to hear what Princess Leia has to say. Her previous hardcover, Wishful Drinking, was an instant New York Times bestseller and Carrie was featured everywhere on broadcast media and received rave reviews from coast to coast, including People (4 stars; one of their top 10 books of the year), Entertainment Weekly, New York Times, and scores of others.
Told with the same intimate style, brutal honesty, and uproarious wisdom that placed Wishful Drinking on the New York Times bestseller list for months, Shockaholic is the juicy account of Carrie Fisher’s life, focusing more on the Star Wars years and dishing about the various Hollywood relationships she’s formed since she was chosen to play Princess Leia at only nineteen years old. Fisher delves into the gritty details that made the movie—and herself—such a phenomenal success, admitting, “It isn’t all sweetness and light sabers.”
Review:
“I don’t hate hardly ever, and when I love, I love for miles and miles. A love so big it should either be outlawed or it should have a capital and its own currency.”
Another one of Carrie Fisher’s books. Yes, how did you guess she was one of my favourites?
While this book isn’t as good as Wishful Drinking I personally found it a lot better than The Princess Diarist. Again, Carrie is open and witty about her mental illness and drug use. It’s nice that she never shied away from talking about her issues, it made her all that more real.
In this book she also discusses her relationship with her father. A relationship that was once strained but eventually grew before his passing. It was nice and not too sentimental.
Of course, I could’ve lived without hearing about her step-father’s, how best to phrase it, his flatulence and desire to sleep half naked (bottom down!) and also her defence of Michael Jackson seemed a bit preachy? I did skim most of the MJ chapter and sometimes I would catch myself skimming in others too. This is why I can’t give this anything more than 4 stars.
Overall, I would recommend this to people who are fans of Carrie Fisher as I feel that non-fans wouldn’t find her humour funny. She was such an amazing woman.
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