Christian Steiner reviewed The Princess Diarist
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Ganz wunderbare Reise in die Vergangenheit <3
eBook, 267 pages
Published Nov. 22, 2016
The Princess Diarist
In 1976, Carrie Fisher was a teenager filming a movie, with an all-consuming crush on her costar. And it just happened to become one of the most famous films of all time -- the first Star wars movie. When she recently discovered the journals she had kept, she found them full of plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. In revisiting her diaries, Fisher ponders the joys and insanity of celebrity as well as the absurdity of a life spawned by Hollywood royalty whose lofty status has ultimately been surpassed by her own outer-space royalty.
Grey reviewed The Princess Diarist
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5 stars
This was so raw and human, I miss Carrie so much.
Katherine Villyard reviewed The Princess Diarist
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4 stars
Carrie Fisher was a national treasure and we weren’t worthy. I miss her very much.
Carrie Fisher was a national treasure and we weren’t worthy. I miss her very much.
wzhkevin reviewed The Princess Diarist
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4 stars
I don’t think I would have liked this book nearly as much as I had if I’d read it instead of listening to it on audiobook, narrated by Carrie Fisher herself.
felienne reviewed The Princess Diarist
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5 stars
I am so happy Carrie got a chance to write this before she passed. It is especially great as an audiobook read by herself, you really feel you get to know her. What humor and passion she had, and what a life being in that movie. Obviously she never could have foreseen the effects of being Princess Leia. And although her legacy is already changed by playing General Organa, this book also changes the way I look at her, not as a sex symbol or actress but as a gifted and talented observer and an amazing feminist leader. Gone too soon <3
Yashima reviewed The Princess Diarist
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4 stars
I enjoyed the first half where Carrie Fisher talks about her younger self and her memories of the set of the first Star Wars movie. Once I got to her actual angsty teenage diaries I got interrupted and then never got back into them. So today I am DNF-ing the book.
While the the diaries do resonate with my memories of me being at that age, it proved impossible for me to get back into the mood of reading them once the interruption had caused me to put down the book. The first half is definitely worth reading especially if you are curious about some behind-the-scenes information about the actors.
Gossamerchild reviewed The Princess Diarist
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3 stars
Sigh. Definitely round up to 3.5. I loved the journal entries. She was so...introspective and her voice was so FAMILIAR! Painfully so, in some ways. I love her writing style. Amusingly, Harrison Ford seemed more like a concept rather than a person, so if that was her intent (or if that is how she felt) it definitely worked. I never got a sense of the man in any of the things she wrote about him. Seems appropriate, I guess, considering the circumstances.
She was a great writer. I'm going to miss her.
Sigh. Definitely round up to 3.5. I loved the journal entries. She was so...introspective and her voice was so FAMILIAR! Painfully so, in some ways. I love her writing style. Amusingly, Harrison Ford seemed more like a concept rather than a person, so if that was her intent (or if that is how she felt) it definitely worked. I never got a sense of the man in any of the things she wrote about him. Seems appropriate, I guess, considering the circumstances.
She was a great writer. I'm going to miss her.
Utena reviewed The Princess Diarist
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4 stars
Real Rating: 3.5
This 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 …
Real Rating: 3.5
This 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.
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