Carrie Fisher, Billie Lourd: The Princess Diarist (AudiobookFormat, 2016, Penguin Audio)
audio cd
Published Nov. 22, 2016 by Penguin Audio.
"Fisher's intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time--the first Star Wars movie--and what developed behind the scenes"--
I think I liked this best of all her memoirs, except the bits after the diary entries really seemed to drag on. It was a good book otherwise.
Funny, witty and insightful - makes me miss Carrie even more as her final Star Wars outing is released in cinemas.
Pick up the audiobook, as it's read by Carrie Fisher herself, but then prepare yourself for a few lumps in the throats as you listen and remember she's not with us any more. A remarkable memoir by a remarkable lady with a very down to earth view of the transience of fame, beauty, and time.
My main gripe was that this was such a short book. While the revelation that "Carrison" was a thing, it for me, was probably the least interesting bit. That Carrie Fisher was something of a poet, that was something. Hearing about the post episode 4 press junkets was fascinating too, and how that morphed 40 years later into the convention scene and the "lap dances" (aka signing things for money) and how kindly she looked on her fans, on the fans of Star Wars... I am sad that she's no longer with us to share more of her wit.
