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Writes about Download The Princess Diarist PDFPrincess Leia was the only princess I looked up to and wished to be growing up. Princess Leia was tough, smart, beautiful, with a fantastic hairstyle and a Jedi for a brother. Also, she had the best looking scoundrel in space, Han Solo. What little girl didn't want to be her? So when this came out, and I heard what it was about, I knew I had to read it. Carrie Fisher is a sarcastic, funny and honest writer, not hesitating to write about herself in a not so pretty light. I admire that and so I will read her books faithfully, knowing she isn't writing the fairy tale version of Hollywood and her celebrity. But Carrie Fisher doesn't bash her fame, she knows she is loved for her most famous character, Princess Leia, and in return, loves Leia as well and will always do what is right for Leia, no matter the weird way it effects her own life.This may not have the trivia one hopes for, but I love that it didn't have much of that. It was a look inside the head of a young, inexperienced woman, who loved the wrong man, and fell into sudden fame. It is funny, wise and insightful. A great read for women who are Star Wars fans, and have loved Han Solo for as long as they could remember.
Beth
Writes about Download The Princess Diarist PDFBased on Fisher's discovery of old journals she wrote during the filming of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, The Princess Diarist is a candid and poignant look into the mindset of a 19 year-old girl at the brink of international acclaim. Focusing mostly on Fisher's affair with Harrison Ford, readers won't find a lot of tawdry details but will revel in Fisher's candidness on how it affected her. A large section of the book is devoted to a reproduction of Fisher's journal entries, I only wish we got more.Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC.
Peaches
Writes about Reading The Princess Diarist BookSo, this book was like looking forward to trying a new restaurant that everyone is raving about (No, I hadn't read rave reviews, but bear with me), but once you try it, all you can think is: "I paid good money for this? I would've rather had KFC!" (I'm using KFC because it's an average food choice rather than a superior fast food like CFA). A few days before this book was set to release, I read an article promoting it stating that Carrie Fisher was finally spilling the beans about her affair with Harrison Ford after lying about it for decades. Keep in mind, I have only seen (unwillingly) a few of the films 1. because they just look so fake (at least the ones she is in) and 2. the love aspects were sexist and unappealing. As a high schooler, I once tried to entice a guy I had no sexual attraction with to make out with me to avoid finishing the first movie (Episode 1? Episode 4? Who cares....). To my horror, he would rather watch the movie (until the credits rolled and I had to awkwardly shut him down). Anyway, you get the picture that I had no vested interest in the insights about the films. Why did I read this book (and pay for it!) then? Because the article stated it was a tell-all of reflections about the affair plus journal entries of that time period. Nowhere did it state that it would go on tangents about production or fandom. The biggest problems were as follows:1. Carrie Fisher has some issues, and I don't mean the bi-polar that she apparently lived with undiagnosed during this time and never even mentions in this book. I mean she still to this day seems to have no positive sense of self in the present. As the young ingenue, Fisher admits, "Back then I was always looking ahead to who I wanted to be versus who I didn't realize I already was" (53). So, her lack of self-esteem then is understandable. She weighed more than desired, she didn't have a lot of experience on screen, and she lacked experience with boys (except grown gay men that apparently wanted to make-out with her incessantly and possibly deflower her whilst her mother offers to watch....um, what?). It's also understandable that she would have low self-esteem while being with Harrison, the cocky unavailable love interest. BUT, she spends a good deal of time as her present self explaining to her audience how good she actually did look, but couldn't realize it and how now her face looks melted (yes, an actual statement made) and she's so unappealing. At one point, she confrontationally tells her audience that she's writing to show us that she was once actually desirable. Carrie, you didn't have to write a whole monologue of a book to tell me that; a simple tweet could have sufficed. 2. Carrie is pretty bitter about the world that gave her a career to which she gets paid (unhappily) to sign action figures of herself for a living: "if you have a penis and a job, being handsome is a fantastic bonus but hardly a necessity" (76). She makes all of the men seem like predatory idiots with no real personalities. 3. Carrie gives no real details of her time with Harrison, which she blames on him giving her pot continuously, except to state that he was the instigator and was always cold towards her (except when she does an impression of him?): "I have filled him in to be unobtainable, disinterested, attractive and bored with my company [. . .] That I am merely an alternative for nothing better to do" (113). Now, this part, which the journals are from, could have been both intriguing and identifiable to women. Who hasn't doubled herself when a man is uncommunicative? But instead she gives hardly any information of conversations they have, doesn't tell anything they do (just alludes to the act), and never tells how she feels after it's over. What kind of person would decide not to write about how she felt returning to the sequels when he's ditched her and she has already recently professed that she'll always carry a torch for him?!4. Carrie seems dead set on making everyone, audience included, dislike her: "I am always disappointed when someone who loves me--how perfect can he be if he cannot see through me?" (168). She tries to hard to be witty and then leaves us high and dry when we want real information about the subject of the book: the affair! Then, she spends a whole section basically bashing fans of the series (but being thankful that she still gets money from them). Carrie, you're kind of a jerk!It's getting 2 stars because she had some large metaphorical balls to publish this since Harrison never responded after she sent the manuscript. But, then again, they did kill off his character in the most recent movie (yep, dragged to that one too!), so maybe she felt like she'd never face him again! RIP, Carrison!
StMargarets
Writes about Reading The Princess Diarist BookThis felt a little thin for a memoir about Carrie Fisher's most famous role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars movies. I enjoyed her recollections of her audition and moving to England for shooting, but there was a lot missing. Names, dates, places. Not only that, she was pretty vague about the actual work she was involved in. There are no anecdotes about working with a guy in a Darth Vader costume or what Mark Hamil was like or how they worked around special effects. She could have been in England for a 3 month run of a Shakespeare play for all the reader is told. Even her descriptions of her every-weekend affair with Harrison Ford is dream-like and other worldly. She explains that the pot she smoked at the time obscured her memory and that she is relying on her diary entries to piece it all together. And no wonder it's dreamlike- the diary entries she includes are bits of poetry and sketches of her emotions, her worries, her self-loathing, her psychoanalysis of the male forces in her life. Is the "you" directed at Harrison Ford, her father, or the male population as a whole? It doesn't matter in a diary entry that you're writing to make sense of the world - but it does in a memoir when it's either presented without comment or with the explanation of "hey - I found these journals, but I don't really know how to make sense of them." I wanted some insight and wisdom from someone who has gone through the wars of living - but the author didn't provide that.The last part of the memoir - about the Star Wars fan community and her love/hate relationship with it - was also impressionistic. She recites one-sided fan commentary (for instance, an anecdote about how Star Wars came out the same time as a parent's death and the movie saved their sanity) without comment. She mentions several times that she, in the chain-mail bikini, was the object of many masturbatory fantasies, but now she's old and people are disappointed in her looks. It's all a little depressing.I don't think Carrie Fisher has has an easy life. I just wish she could enjoy it more and look back on her past with self-compassion. I was glad to hear her acknowledge - finally - that she was cute as a button when she was young. Hopefully she can forgive (not sure if that is the right word) herself for having a drug-fueled on-location affair with an up and coming actor when they were both far from home. Not the best idea, of course - but not something that should haunt her for forty years. I hope, at the very least, some of those ghosts have been dispelled by writing this. There are some sweet photos in the book - but they are all official publicity photos - nothing personal or never-before-seen.
Rocketsciencemom
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Writes about Download The Princess Diarist PDFI love Carrie Fisher. I've read all her books and really enjoyed them. This book however, was a disappointment. Much of it was pointless 'filler' that was completely unnecessary to the story Carrie was trying to tell.For instance, the whole first chapter...'It was 1976'...is just a listing of all the things that were happening in the year 1976. Now, I get 3 or 4, hell, maybe even 5 or 6 examples so she can set the scene, but as it went on and on it became very clear that she wasn't going to have enough content to fill a 252+ page book. Some of the following chapters weren't bad. Especially 'Carrison', which basically documents her brief affair with co-star Harrison Ford. While I always felt Harrison Ford was a bit of a pompous asshole, Carrie's description of him pretty much solidified that opinion.After 'Carrison' though, things went down hill...FAST. The chapter 'Notes from his Periphery, or the Glib Martyr', is straight from the pages of her lost diaries, and it is PAINFUL. It's pages and pages of a 19 year old stoner trying to sound deep and meaningful with her 'poetry', and torturing herself with her intense infatuation of her married co-star. Trying to rationalize how she can continue to sleep with him when he's,1. Married, and2. Apparently has no idea how to have an actual CONVERSATION...yet she does nothing about the situation and keeps beating herself up over it.I didn't think it could get much worse...but I was wrong. The final chapters are a blur because they were so damn boring that I started skimming. 'Leia's Lapdance' is pages of the mundane stories various fans have told her while at different signing appearances (such as Comic Con). Seriously...the whole chapter is OTHER peoples stories about why they love her and what Princess Leia means to them. I don't care about THEIR stories...I wasted to read HERS.Overall, if your a Star Wars fanatic (which I am), then you're going to read it regardless of the reviews, but this definitely not her best work.
Jenny
Writes about Read Online The Princess Diarist Book PDFThis was a pretty quick read, even as far as memoirs go. I started it last night around supper time and finished it on my commute to work this morning. I haven't read any of Fisher's work prior to this but I definitely will now. Before you read this, be warned that if you are expecting a play by play peek into life behind the scenes of the original Star Wars films, you will be sorely disappointed.This memoir is very Carrie focused (naturally), her thoughts and feelings (that she remembers) from her time spent working on the first film, and how Star Wars has subsequently impacted her life (the good, bad, and the ugly). Her narrative about the actual time on set revolves almost entirely around her relationship with Harrison. For anyone who has suffered through the unbearable agony of unrequited love, the fact that Harrison serves as the focal point for this experience will come as no surprise. While I would have loved to hear more about the actual experience of being a part of three of the most iconic films of all time, by the end of the book I had a certain sense of Fisher's 40 year non-stop PLO fatigue and didn't hold it against her that she choice to write about what she wanted, rather than what fans would necessarily want/expect to read.I enjoyed* what Fisher deigned to give me, and the chapter including her diary entries particularly resonated with me. That teen angst is oh so real, and almost agonizing to read at times. You can see the shift between her manic and depressive episodes through her entries, and it is incredible just how articulate she was even at the age of 19. If I can be half as articulate as Fisher is at any point in my life, I'll be proud. *Don't be fooled by this three star review, I do truly think this was a fantastic read, but the cynic in me wants to be careful not to condone the ever-growing page-shrinking of the memoir genre.
Desiré R
Writes about Download The Princess Diarist PDFWhen I heard about it and up to before even the articles about it were released, I thought it was going to be more diaries than commentary. And I was convinced Carrie wouldn’t really talk about Harrison besides her massive crush (which everyone knows about, anyway). Really, I thought it was going to be about the whole, overall first Star Wars experience.Instead it was It’s not a critique because it was still a book about Star Wars and it was witty and entertaining; I just find it very funny that I thought it wasn’t going to be what it very much ended up being.I already thought this, but after this book, the feeling of admiration increased because I honestly don’t know howwww someone who was struggling so much was still able to do what she did on screen. I mean, can you imagine being in the kind of situation she was with her co-star and then having to get out there and perform with him not only like you’re not having an affair with him, but that is also making you really miserable? And it amazes me even more how they were able to put all that behind them by the time of ESB (and earlier, actually, during press tours and private outings that I assume were willing?)Reading the story and then the diary entries felt almost like fiction. Like, there’s no way something like that happens to real people, especially to people who’ve never acted like it had (not in that dark, twisted, problematic way, anyway.) But it did, and tbh what I’m curious about now is how they went on having a friendship and good acting chemistry after that. I’m gonna need a book on ESB and RotJ, please.Also the poems were super painful but so good, wow.
Juan
Writes about Download The Princess Diarist PDFFisher is candid and unforgiving on herself when she reaches back and lays out this, seemingly, vital episode of her life. She sounds very aware of how she is perceived and how she perceives herself. Her self deprecation ebbs and flows as she humbly tells of her family's extraordinary background but it nose dives as it contrast herself and Harrison Ford. Her unworthiness seems to be a frilly triple decker parade float where Ford is well lit and a chorus seems to announce his arrival. Her awe is consistent to that of us as fans, but her immediacy to him on a daily basis seemed to blaze like a super nova. Han was real and he stepped off the screen. Yup, the voyeur in me enjoys the behind the scenes and insight to the young starlet and the handsome leading man. The truly intimate moments are not what happens under the sheets, but how Ford is an island and quiet moments of morning afters. A married man keeping all his cards close to the vest was seen as a mysterious entity to a young infatuated Fisher. Then we veer to the heart of an over exposed young person. Fisher's poems from her diaries come to life as a younger sounding woman reads them. These poems seem to be the second act. Her writing I enjoyed, for the most part and was impressed thinking that this came from a 20 something year old. The poems go into what Ford was in the lines of a young woman world.The last third brings back Fisher and how she experienced her fans. This section is funny, revealing and genuine. Fisher connects and it felt like she was really touched by the absurdity and love that her fans exude. Overall, this memoir sheds light that most ardent fans may already know, but this is a sweet time machine, that reminds me a bit of Lois Lane flying with Superman and all that goes through one's mind when the moment is yours. Fisher's latest takes us back and allows us to pal around.
Lisa
Writes about Download The Princess Diarist PDFI've liked Carrie Fisher's writing since she started publishing - and before, hearing her screenplay dialogue starting with TESB. Smart, self-aware, a brutal wit. She played a rebel leader with a royal lineage during my formative teen girl years, so yes I'm a SW fan too. Fisher's latest memoir has raw pain, especially in her teen poetry section. Haven't we been this same "princess" one time in our lives? Brave and masochist, a powerful combo, an addictive blend. Inhaled the book in 1 sitting, probably akin to doing a cocaine session (not that I know but we could ask her and she'd tell us). This one memoir informs everything else she's done, all the other memoir-disguised books, plays, interviews, acting. Her big revelation isn't that surprising, only her timing, including the amount she spends on it (75% of the book) and her naked feelings around it even in present day retelling. I felt bad for her, him, their families and friends because why share it now? Why make it the main focus vs being the Princess Named Leia? That rattled me more, her move for a response. Not from us fans but a laser shot at a famous scoundrel married several times with several families to address over this sudden bombshell. That's for them to work out; this fan hopes the princess/writer she admires finds peace after her self-battles are won.
Shanna
Writes about Reading The Princess Diarist Book"It's all a matter of touch and go. Cause he's one for all and all for show. But after all was said and almost done. I was playing for keeps and he was playing for fun." Oh my goodness. Read this book straight through in about 4 hours. I'm a big Star Wars geek so I've been waiting for this book to be released. This of course, is just a one-sided story, we don't know what he was thinking and feeling. There is nothing explicit. It mostly explains situations and the way she was feeling. It really made me feel sorry for her 19-year-old self. I do believe he didn't realize she was so inexperienced (Harrison was the 2nd man she ever slept with), but when she told him he should have stopped it right there, not continue for several more weeks. He pretty much treated her like a convenient piece of ass until he broke it off b/c he was going home to his wife and kids. I wish she described that last conversation that broke the relationship off and how it was like having to work with him on 2 more movies. Especially, considering he got divorced soon after he returned home. He really broke her heart, but we have all experienced that in one form or another. It's part of life.
Andi
Writes about Download The Princess Diarist PDFThis isn't a bad book, don't think the three-star review shows that.If anything this is a sad book. It's a sad pull-back-the-curtain to a woman that millions of people adored. It gave a glimpse of someone going through bi-polar (and not knowing it), having a doomed love-affair with someone many people came to adore. It gave a cinematic couple, Han and Leia, a different meaning and allowed me to rethink scenes between Harrison and Carrie.I think this book needed to come out. I think that it puts to rest the much open-secret rumors about their affair but also shows that it was not something that was exactly cherished on both sides. I feel that it was nice to finally understand that both sides were at fault. I also enjoyed that we finally get a look at Carrie's view of autographs, fandom and being world-renown. The reason why I rate it down two stars is that it was rather short. I felt that there was more that went on instead of what took place during Episode 4. But then again, maybe that's all there is to know... and the rest is blissfully erased by Ford's strong weed dosage.Nevertheless, the book was good, but be warned: your galactic couple gets either a heightened or lowered sense of enjoyment.
Kate
Writes about Reading The Princess Diarist BookThis was a really difficult book to read; it's also a difficult book to rate. The level of honesty with which Fisher writes is actually uncomfortable, in part because the feelings she writes about are very relatable, but of the kind that most of us would just as soon forget we'd ever experienced, and manage to forget we ever experienced most of the time. It's all more poignant, though, because one gets the feelings that a lot of the insecurities that plagued her continue to plague her, and if you know even a little bit about her life and what followed this in it, you also know that this wasn't even really a low for her- the worst is still coming.I think it was really brave of her to write and share this, though, and I felt quite moved by it in some sense. It's difficult to say whether I'd actually recommend it, because I felt dirty reading it at times, like I'd actually found her diary and was reading it without her permission, and also really sad, yet it really did speak to me on a certain level. My greatest hope after reading this is that the rest of Carrie Fisher's life is much happier than what it's been so far.
William Thompson
Writes about Reading The Princess Diarist BookThis was pretty much what I expected but not what I hoped for and so was disappointed. This book feels like butter which has been spread over too much bread. It should have been condensed to a chapter in another memoir but instead has been expanded to a book with a low word count. You really can tell this was not the first memoir she has written and is running out of things to say. I feel a little harsh giving it 2 stars as it made me laugh a lot, but I did wish it was over by the end. The book starts out giving some background on her teenage year, how she got into acting and star Wars. Then a chapter that covers a quarter of the book is about her and Harrison Ford and after that I really can't describe most of it was quotes of things fans say to her and ramblings which only feel like she was trying to hit a minimum word count.Luckily I got this on Audible and the narration by Carrie was quite good and added to the humour also I returned it so I got it for free. I'd have felt a little cheated if I paid for this.
Utena
Writes about Reading The Princess Diarist BookReal Rating: 3.5This was the first book I have read from Carrie Fisher. I had never read of any of her other books but I had heard that many of her books were humorous and worth the read. This one drew my curiosity more when I learned that this book would contain information on her affair with Harrison Ford.I was a bit disappointed. She admits that because of all the pot smoking she did pretty much obscured her memories so the only thing she has to connect the dots with are the diaries she kept while having her weekend affair with Harrison Ford. Yet, there are no major mentions of her working with Mark Hamill and what it had been like to be on the set of Star Wars.But I do suppose smoking pot does cloud one's memories and thus you only have your diaries to fall back on. I just wish there had been more stuff from the Star Wars set. I don't expect scandal or gossip, just what it had been like to be there. Maybe I need to read her other books.
Lisa Kleinert
Writes about Download The Princess Diarist PDFI'm kind of bummed, unlike the other two memoirs which I very much enjoyed, it seemed like she didn't have enough material for a third installation. I'm sure it was rushed to get an after-the-film-but-close-enough-to-Christmas-to-be-a-gift timeframe. I enjoyed the first bit and the last bit (excluding the pages of fake or real fan monologues to her) which sounded very much like Carrie's writing, but the middle regarding Harrison Ford was more like a tabloid novel. It could have been trimmed excessively. Also, I glazed over the transcripts of her diary which were just so... cringy, or more like writing exercises that you write when you've got nothing to write. I guess diaries... which considering the title is probably the point, but famous author or not, they were not fun to read. Whoever designs her memoir covers does an amazing job.P.S. Please don't talk about your dog without including loads of photos!
Lea Bowski
Writes about Reading The Princess Diarist BookI love both Carrie Fisher and Star Wars so I wanted to love this but I found it disappointing. Through a good part of it Carrie rambles and doesn't really say much of anything. She has said her memories of filming the Star Wars films were hazy due to a lot of the pot smoking she did at the time and so she relied on snippets from her old diaries she kept at the time. Included are some bits from the diaries but they're also not very coherent. Parts of it were interesting for sure. I enjoyed reading some of her comments on how Star Wars has affected her life with a sense of sadness for it seems very bittersweet for Carrie. I really enjoyed her book Wishful Drinking but this wasn't that. I have a feeling writing this may have been cathartic for her and there is value in that but it doesn't seem the type of book for a general audience.
Shawn Dawson
Writes about Read Online The Princess Diarist Book PDFI really like Carrie fisher, the little I know of her, and I also enjoy her quirky writing style. That is why it is difficult for me to give the book two stars. I initially gave it a pass with a three, but when I went to write the review I though, "would I recommend someone read this book". Unfortunate, I think you can skip it.There is really nothing much divulged on its pages about her experience through Star Wars.The first chapter starts off well with memories of Carrie's audition for Star Wars which is great. Then there is a chapter about her and a co-star that rambles on and on like a teen might do.After that there is really nothing much else. Some random thoughts about comic-cons, a few poems from her diary, and some comments about her age and looks.All and all I was disappointed. I guess we will all have to wait for an all encompassing biography.
Karen
Writes about Download The Princess Diarist PDFThis was a fun romp back to the 70's and the angst of a teenage girl on the verge of iconic mega stardom. I especially liked the recollections of Harrison and the insecurities described during their illicit affair - these will probably resonate more with the female readership and for anyone who has ever been involved with or had a crush on someone that is "out of their league," whether in actuality or perceived. I also enjoyed her take on comic cons and the like and the examples of the interactions only someone in her position would experience. I wish she would've delved more into her personal Star Wars experience - I feel there is a wealth of information left untapped from that arena. As a Star Wars "fan" I would've appreciated a more lengthy "lap dance" on her part to fulfill our thirst for knowledge and our need to live vicariously through the life of such an iconic celebrity.
False Millennium
Writes about Reading The Princess Diarist BookThe author herself states that often she reveals too much, even to strangers, and that perhaps she should practice more silence. A good pursuit when considering this book. Is it really necessary? She's been marketing herself as the troubled celebrity-daughter celebrity-ex-wife former celebrity and on an on about that stupid metal bikini. She spends pages critiquing (through use of remembered dialogue) the fans who approach her for photographs and autographs and how "queer" it all is, yet in the same breath acknowledges that she pursues this line of work to sustain her "poor rich" "lifestyle I have grown accustomed to." I would say, "learn to live in a more modest manner." Also. That silence thing? It's golden.
Natalie
Writes about Download The Princess Diarist PDFSo this is about Carrie Fisher's time before, during and dealing with being Princess Leia all her life and the fame that comes with it, but it is also, about 2/3s about her affair with Harrison Ford as a kooky 19 year old, mostly inexperienced girl. The stuff from her diaries are the best. There is so much sad, angsty 19 year old teenage poetry, pretty much ALL about her feelings about Harrison. I loved it.I just wished there was more of each section because the section at the end which is interesting too--- about her dealing with being a cultural icon--- but it felt a little tacked on just because of how big the sections on the filming and the diary entries were.
Jim
Writes about Read Online The Princess Diarist Book PDFHer most soul-baring book doesn't stray too far from the eccentric, stream-of-consciousness style of the earlier confessionals but presents a more raw perspective of her thrust into self-generated fame as a very young woman. I expected more "behind the scenes" movie revelations but that was mostly due to mismarketing of the recently rediscovered diaries from her time during the first Star Wars movie. Diary entries are presenting without date, context, or comment and can feel a little disjointed to the outside reader. But, the naked emotions, insecurities, and criticisms resonated for me as someone who struggles with anxiety and self-deprecating tendencies.
Katherine Coble
Writes about Reading The Princess Diarist BookI gave up on this and returned it. I was expecting fun tales about the making of Star Wars. I was not expecting a maudlin slog of contrived wittiness and narcissism. Every tiny nugget of information is buried under an avalanche of Fisher's gee-ain't-I-a-hoot ramblings. I kept thinking if I just stuck with it I would get interesting anecdotes and insightful commentary. After awhile I just couldn't take it anymore. I read far more about her drinking habits than anything about Star Wars. If I want to hang out with a grandiloquent alcoholic in recovery I can do that for free at my neigjbour's.
Lionel
Writes about Read Online The Princess Diarist Book PDFSo disappointing... Fair point, she already wrote tow others memoirs so I guess the good stuff is in these ones. The big news here is the confirmed affair between her and Harrison Ford while filming the first movie. And it takes the most part of the book, and it is extremelly boring !!! Even more so, the copies of her diaries...The other parts are interesting, but the style is terrible (like she is writing everything that goes through her mind, including stuff that barely make sense to write down in a book). Also the view she has of her fans is quite... interesting.Well, good thing is that is was short and that I didn't actually bought it.
Linda
Writes about Read Online The Princess Diarist Book PDFFisher indicates in the introduction that she has come across her journal from when she was making the Star Wars films. She drops the bombshell that she had an affair with Harrison Ford during that time. . It does not present Ford in a particularly favorable light as a married 35 year old with 2 children seducing an intoxicated 19 year old. Also included is some of her adolescent poetry, and reflections on whether getting the role of Princess Leia was ultimately a blessing or a curse. There is an undercurrent of pain in this book which strives for a humorous tone.
Michelle
Writes about Read Online The Princess Diarist Book PDFThe most interesting part of this book were the excerpts from Fisher's actual journals that she kept while filming. That being said, the entire contents of the journals focuses on Fisher's self-doubt and her relationship with Harrison Ford. The beginning and end of the book are her recollections of the events, but they are a bit repetitive. There is very little substance here - especially if you are looking for behind the scenes stories about filming or working with any of the other cast and crew. It is a quick and easy read, but it might not be worth the cover price...
Allison
Writes about Reading The Princess Diarist BookAbsolutely no point to this "book." Ms. Fisher rambles and tries to be witty--but falls short of the mark. Revealing her affair with Harrison Ford was (if possible) a poorer decision than carrying on the affair to begin with--how dare she reopen old wounds and destroy his family again? It's not all about YOU Carrie...did you stop to consider his children from that marriage, grandchildren, his ex-wife? I suggest she goes to confession or gets a therapist. I suggest everyone else skips the book.
Michelle (Champ)
Writes about Reading The Princess Diarist BookAll those months of waiting.....that was quick. For sure a journal entry of her relationship with Harrison Ford. Carrison as she refers to it, doesn't appeal to me. I never really thought Carrie and Harrison would be a match. This proves it. I like them as Leia and Han, that's all. I did see by LISTENING to this, that I am correct in my assumption Harrison has one mood.....SERIOUS. Overall, this is fine if you want to listen to someone's diary, the nerd in me just wanted more SW stuff.
Jacquie
Writes about Download The Princess Diarist PDF3.5 stars. Another fun read from Carrie Fisher. The first half of the book was all about her affair with Harrison Ford, not really about making Star Wars. The second half was more about dealing with the fame that came with the movie. The most interesting part of this book is reading between the lines (or not--Fisher is good about not making you search for meaning) regarding her mental illness. Be warned, her actual diary entries are full of self-loathing and written in the second person so if you are prone to those feelings you might want to skip them.
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