Shockaholic
This memoir from the bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge and Wishful Drinking gives you an intimate, gossip-filled look at what it's like to be the daughter of Hollywood royalty. Told with the same intimate style, brutal honesty, and uproarious wisdom that locked Wishful Drinking on the New York Times bestseller list for months, Shockaholic is the juicy account of Carrie Fisher's life. Covering a broad range of topics--from never-before-heard tales of Hollywood gossip to outrageous moments of celebrity desperation; from alcoholism to illegal drug use; from the familial relationships of Hollywood royalty to scandalous run-ins with noteworthy politicians; from shock therapy to talk therapy--Carrie Fisher gives an intimate portrait of herself, and she's one of the most indelible and powerful forces in culture at large today. Just as she has said of playing Princess Leia--"It isn't all sweetness and light sabers"--Fisher takes readers on a no-holds-barred narrative adventure, both laugh-out-loud funny and poignant.
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I was looking for another audio book for the gym. I chose this book because I was intrigued to know more about Carrie Fisher and the book was read by the author.
I gave it a 3 because of the profanity in the book. Thankfully it was not as bad as Julie and Julia which I had to put down because every other sentence was riddled with profanity. Profanity was here and I still winced. I understand that people choose to talk this way but to me it does not show class. My wish would be for someone to develop an app so these words could be "bleeped" out.
I have not read any other of her books. This book focuses more on her receiving shock therapy. It also talks in depth about her relationship with Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, her stepfather, and father, Eddie Fisher.
I gave it a 3 because of the profanity in the book. Thankfully it was not as bad as Julie and Julia which I had to put down because every other sentence was riddled with profanity. Profanity was here and I still winced. I understand that people choose to talk this way but to me it does not show class. My wish would be for someone to develop an app so these words could be "bleeped" out.
I have not read any other of her books. This book focuses more on her receiving shock therapy. It also talks in depth about her relationship with Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, her stepfather, and father, Eddie Fisher.
This is Fisher’s second memoir. I also read her first one, Wishful Drinking, which is more of a conventional memoir so I recommend reading that one first. This one is more of a series of super interesting anecdotes. Nonetheless, I like this one better than the first.
Wow, Ted Kennedy sounds like a huge misogynist asshole in Fisher’s account of meeting him. Despite being a liberal myself, I’ve always suspected the worst of him, so it’s easy to just trust Fisher’s account.
The Michael Jackson account is also fascinating but maybe less reliable because she makes a lot of assumptions about him.
Wow, Ted Kennedy sounds like a huge misogynist asshole in Fisher’s account of meeting him. Despite being a liberal myself, I’ve always suspected the worst of him, so it’s easy to just trust Fisher’s account.
The Michael Jackson account is also fascinating but maybe less reliable because she makes a lot of assumptions about him.
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