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Carrie Fisher remembers life on the set of the first Star Wars movie and becoming a cultural icon in her last memoir. She recounts her coming of age and brief affair with Harrison Ford while filming, though in limited detail as she's not one to kiss and tell. Fisher's humor and candor shines through in this very readable memoir. Listen to the audiobook if possible as Fisher herself reads it, with daughter Billie Lourd reading her mom's journal entries from the days on the set of Star Wars. It wa
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I love her writing...and of course it is bittersweet now that she has passed away. My only complaint about the book is that she does tend to go on a little too much about some things. Otherwise, her funny wisecracking self comes through loud and clear! Try her other books, they are all good.
Carrie has an amazing way with words that I don't know how to describe. She's hysterically funny and devastatingly honest at the same time. Her affair with Harrison was depressing and lackluster, and something that affected her a great deal at the time. Her diaries from that time were full of pain and confusion that broke my heart and made me laugh all at once. The way she talked about her fame too was both sad and funny. Carrie was expected to be as perfect and gorgeous now as she was in her me
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Great Book. and interesting read to get a behind the scenes look at the first three Star Wars movies. Had some surprising parts
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