The Princess Diarist
This last book from beloved Hollywood icon Carrie Fisher is the crown jewel of ideal Star Wars gifts. The Princess Diarist is an intimate, hilarious, and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time.
When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved—plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Before her passing, her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon was indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar, Harrison Ford.
With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks, The Princess Diarist is Fisher’s intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time—and what developed behind the scenes. Fisher also ponders the joys and insanity of celebrity, and the absurdity of a life spawned by Hollywood royalty, only to be surpassed by her own outer-space royalty. Laugh-out-loud hilarious and endlessly quotable, The Princess Diarist brims with the candor and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into one of Hollywood's most beloved stars.
When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved—plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Before her passing, her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon was indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar, Harrison Ford.
With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks, The Princess Diarist is Fisher’s intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time—and what developed behind the scenes. Fisher also ponders the joys and insanity of celebrity, and the absurdity of a life spawned by Hollywood royalty, only to be surpassed by her own outer-space royalty. Laugh-out-loud hilarious and endlessly quotable, The Princess Diarist brims with the candor and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into one of Hollywood's most beloved stars.
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I really enjoyed the Princess Diarist. Carrie had her trademark unflinching honesty throughout the book. Sometimes, especially when reading her diary entries, it was rough. The outstanding loneliness, still forming who she is as a person, and then being knocked off her feet by am older man. Falling in love when she obviously knew it would go nowhere and she would get nothing from it. And you see her in the various stages of an undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Carrie also talks about how crazy Hollywood is and how amazing her fans are, even when they're overexcited. Towards the end of the book I felt the feels. Knowing that Carrie has now passed on made the book incredibly bitter-sweet. I felt so privileged to have read what was a very intimate and trying time in her life, and I am so sad knowing that her presence is gone. She was such a strong women - owning up to her mistakes, making sure that others better understood mental health. I'm glad to have had a woman like her to look up to during my lifetime.
I prefer her other books, but this was okay. Actually, it reminded me more that the teenage Carrie Fisher was just a teenager like I was, but she had a cool job and wrote much better poetry than I did. Reminder to self: throw out my old diaries.
Never thought one could make an illicit affair with one of the sexiest men of the time sound so boring.....
I really like Carrie Fisher and really wanted to like this book, but as others have said, it's not much about Star Wars. It is much more about her affair with Harrison Ford. It was abit repetitive and self pitying.
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