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The Princess Diarist
- Narrated by: Carrie Fisher, Billie Lourd
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Entertainment & Celebrities
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Winner of the 2018 Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album.
When Carrie Fisher recently 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. Today, her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a (sort-of) regular teenager.
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- Dan
- 28-12-16
Thoroughly enjoyable!
Fishers honesty in Princess Diarist is refreshing and commendable. Her diaries are works of art, no wonder she was such a good script writer late in life!
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- Nathan
- 03-01-17
Carrie on Carrying On
When it comes to autobiography, the clichés are often the easiest to parrot. Words like 'warm', 'witty', and 'wry' are bandied about like cheap currency for a disposable celebrity-centric lexicon.
What survives Carrie Fisher though *is* her warmth. She's frank without being cutting, honest without excesses of self-pity. Despite herself, she's never felt like a celebrity. That wouldn't sit right with some authors, but there isn't a moment in 'The Princess Diarist' that seems peppered with the sort of incredulous sneering we might come to expect from celebrity memoir.
From easy charm to angsty poetry and back again, where there is humour in experience we're always in on the joke. That's ultimately what sets this memoir apart from so many others - the late great author knows we're all just 'jumped up, scruffy-looking nerf-herder[s]' at heart, but relishes sharing in the glorious unpredictability human life anyway.
She may have felt she lacked an intellectual streak, but her incisive observations philosophise with the best of them without ever seeming bombastic or 'precocious'. Hers aren't throwaway sentiments, while always aware of her capacity as actress, the tone isn't preoccupied with notions of 'legacy'. Instead, Fisher reminds us that sometimes the best of what is close to home resonates more fully set against that which seems 'far, far away' but that is, in its truest sense, ceaselessly and reassuringly human.
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- Mr Aitken
- 30-12-16
Only way I'm able to cope this week
Hearing Carrie Fisher and her daughter read her new book is wonderfully entertaining and utterly heartbreaking. I urge everyone to listen to this as it's truly rewarding and cathartic. God speed, Carrie.
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- John Blair
- 31-12-16
Great Listen
Carrie Fisher's onset Star Wars diaries don't really constitute a very big part of this book. And although touted as the big draw don't really offer anymore than any other teenage diary - angst ridden and moody as they are. And the revelation of an affair with Harrison Ford seems to be more about recollecting youth across a passage of time. She could be talking about anything... It just happened to be an affair. Putting the diaries and the affair to one side and the book's real heart is revealed.. A 60 year old trying to remember her life at 19 and on the cusp of something she never could have forseen. And also how she has dealt with Star Wars, the fame and the expectations that come with it. This is where the book shines. And the narration is perfect.... Like a wise best friend sat opposite you making you laugh and listen. Rest in peace Carrie Fisher.
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- Emma Fevrier
- 30-12-16
Laughed and cried
This was a wonderful insight in to Carrie's earlier life and what Star Wars has done for her.
I honestly felt like I was sat with a friend for the last 4 hours.. so brilliant.
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- Ben
- 05-01-17
A final farewell
I started this before she passed away which made for a heartbreaking last few chapters. as always Ms Fisher is a delight and shows an insight like never before in to the turbulent life where she was and wasn't Princess Leia. A fitting final book to her amazing life.
She will be greatly missed.
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- Sharon
- 02-01-17
Wonderful Audiobook
This is a wonderful reflective humorous book. Particularly enjoyable listening to Carrie Fisher read her own story with her humour and passion. I've never seen Star Wars but am now inspired to do so to witness the evolution of such an inspiring unique woman. Also look forward to downloading her other audiobooks. Highly recommend this audiobook.
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- Ian Hepworth
- 19-01-17
was this a lapdance
interesting but found it a bit rambling and very cynical for the fans. other than the Ford affair nothing enlightening but then again I haven't read wishful drinking so might give that a go
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- Trancephoenix
- 01-01-17
Love Carrie Fisher but lots of teenaged angst.
I chose this book because of my fondness for Carrie Fisher and all things Star Wars. While I enjoyed hearing her perform her own reading and acknowledge that her ability with language and even her youthful poetry is quite beautiful; I have to admit that I found the intense navel gazing (which is inherent to the experience of life as a 19 year old) to be just a bit overdone for me. My 19 year old self would likely have appreciated it more as I can relate to much of what she expressed at that period of her life. In the narration of her story from hindsight, I think that she was sharing her story and dealing with the large amounts of speculation from both a personal perspective & attempting to be objective at the same time. This gives a thoughtful insight into her experiences, however it does make for a very detailed and drawn out, introspective narrative. If that's what you are in the mood for then this book is perfect. Just listening to Ms Fisher's reading is reason enough to listen once at least.
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- ehlphotography
- 19-03-22
Intelligent revealing insight
Carrie is a super writer. Loved the wry witty poems and playful insights into fame. Particularly honest about Harrison, which I must admit I had not known about. She was a real class act. She will be missed.
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- KaGa
- 27-03-18
I love this
She has the funniest analogies ever, really worth the read, and much more worth the listen
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- Andromeda
- 20-08-20
A love letter to her fans
I miss Space Mom and this memoir of sorts is perfect for anyone who does.
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- Encey
- 22-02-17
I loved it!
I am little sad only just to hear this now after her passing but I think she will always be with us in force and in memory forever :)