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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Most reviewers praise <em>The Best Awful</em> for its nerve-wracking depiction of insanity and commend Fisher for her honesty. Though she's a sharp and witty writer throughout the novel, Fisher drops a few story lines during her narrator's frenzied journey and cheats readers out of a realistic ending. Unlike...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45459224">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the sequel to Postcards from the Edge. The focus of Postcards is rehab and readjustment post-rehab. The focus of this book is having a daughter with a gay man (which, of course, Carrie does have with probably the most powerful gay man in Hollywood) and on bi-polar episodes. I don't even want...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43339000">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really tried to like this book.  I want to like Carrie Fisher's work.  She seems like an incredibly kickass person, the sort of aunt you would want on your side when your mother is being completely unreasonable about your choice of boyfriend or when you find yourself alone and crying on a bus.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2741497">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good and funny story, well told.  I've seen this illness stomping on a loved one, it's so difficult to deal with because the person feels so almighty wonderful, when up, that they feel that the meds that keep them level are sucking away all their joy in life and selfhood.  The downs are so immobil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78166404">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Best Awful, sequel to Postcards From the Edge... I really liked Postcards cos it was so crazy and different. But this one I didn't really like. It was too crazy and pointless. Plain boring. The ex-Hollywood star is mentally unstable again... Only now she has daughter to worry about too. Fisher d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42768391">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wanted to LOVE this book because I like Carrie Fisher so much.  Unfortunately, the book was just too overloaded with quick one liners and multiple metaphors.  I actually enjoyed the plot and the main proganist quite a bit.  I just wish Fisher hadn't overdone the prose.  It seems like Fisher...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52254722">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.  I think it is a hard read, at least for me.  There was too much of my child dancing through the pages.  I loved it and I hated it.  It is a very real look at bi-polar from the patient's point of view. It enlightened me and it terrified me.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not nearly as good as Postcards From The Edge.  She uses an overtly strange writing style that she seems to be trying to impress the reader with and it just makes you conscious of her writing sty;e throughout the book rather than being able to focus on what she's saying.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just read this over the summer and really got into it. As always (I've read all her books), Carrie Fisher's biting humor and wordplay make for a fun and fast read. There is a section in the middle where the main character's mental health goes awry, and that part became very annoying to me. I underst...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35948803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most people don't know that Carrie Fisher is a script doctor - someone who comes in on a film and &quot;fixes&quot; a script to make it more cohesive, and most importantly, something that will make money.  She doesn't get a credit on the film, so noone really knows what films she's called in on.  Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17313585">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Borrowed this from a bipolar friend of mine who, amzaingly enough, did not seem to recognize her own behavior mirrored in this book at all.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This wasn't nearly as interesting as &quot;Wishful Drinking&quot; and &quot;Postcards from the Edge&quot;.  Seemed to drag. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The writing felt a little forced at times, like every sentence had to be clever and witty.  However, it was an intriguing glimpse at the mind and experiences of a person with bipolar disorder.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, I've never been walked through going crazy in quiet such an irresistible way.  This book is quite a ride, it fuddled my head many a time.  Also, I found it really, really hard to remember that I wasn't reading an autobiography of Carrie Fisher.  Perhaps that is because the voice of the main cha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5406446">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yuck.  I would have given this one star, but was afraid Carrie Fisher would somehow read the review and it would start her on a downward spiral.<br/><br/>The only highlight to this was the physical description of the high of someone with bipolar, but I could have received what I needed in 15 pages...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, I confess, I am reading this book because I loved &quot;Postcards from the Edge.&quot;  Found this book at a second hand shop for $1 couldn't pass it up.  <br/><br/>Let me know if you are interested in reading it, I would be happy to send it on.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely trippy - &quot;semi-autobiographical&quot;? Perhaps?  Ex-actress with talk show fights her demons about manic depression and a failed marriage with a young daughter to think about.  Sections are definitely trippy as she writes what she was thinking/doing/saying a lot.  Not sure if I would...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24219434">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just could not relate to anyone in this story, the writing was just strings of words, and the ending was disappointing and somewhat depressing.]]></body>
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