I've always LOVED this film!!! Though the film is QUITE different from the book. The format, the storyline, the way the "story" unfolds. It's very, VERY different, but that's okay w/me. I have an open mind. And Mike Nichols (whom I ADORE!!) took artistic liberty & I think he did a great job. He obviously was already friends w/Carrie Fisher & most likely Debbie Reynolds as well and either Carrie talked to him a lot about her funny, dysfunctional relationship w/her mother OR he witnessed it firsthand, or maybe some of both?
But I'm not here reviewing the film, am I? Haha, though I'd be happy to!! Love it! Love Mike (as I said), love Meryl & Shirley's performances, so great & it's SO hilarious & TOTALLY my type of sense of humor: dry, witty, sarcastic. So: intelligently funny as I think of it.
And the book is like that as well. Dryly funny. So sad (situations), that you have to laugh kind of thing. Then there is outright funny as well.
I really relate to Carrie on top of it. Her thoughts, her insecurities, sooo many things.
So while I wasn't jumping up & down with joy after or during reading it or telling everyone "omg you HAVE to read this book", I would recommend it to people. It's not for everyone. You have to be a fairly introspective person to enjoy it. She is hilarious though, but many people wouldn't get that. They would find it boring & say "well nothing is happening here? this is stupid!", but those are the ALL surface people that populate this world. Like she says: instant gratification takes too long! I agree w/that, but I also have the patience & intelligence to happily read such a book. Great job Carrie. I myself am writing a book. It too is hilarious & hopefully helpful (to women, and perhaps men?) as well. I have changed the names to protect the stupid and/or the innocent. Anyway.......
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Postcards From the Edge, Carrie Fisher’s highly autobiographical novel, is made up of two parts, despite its table of contents which lists seven.The first one-third of the book is written in first person and contains the journal of a Hollywood starlet who is a recovering drug abuser. Her journal is very frank and introspective, clever and nicely written. Her character is very well-developed, not surprisingly, since it is probably a mirror image of the author’s own character. It’s a good portrayal of what growing up in show business can do to fragile egos.The most powerful and important component of the book is the inner monologue of a hardcore cocaine addict who is in denial. It is brilliant and, as the New York Times calls it, “harrowing”. Boy is that the right word. Fisher interlaces the guy’s monologue with the actress’s journal. The contrasts between the two characters are significant and full of meaning. And it would be hard to read the entirety of the guy’s monologue without the comic relief of her journal entries. The guy puts himself through hell, taking copious amounts of drugs, and reading his first-person account is a little taste of hell itself. But people need to understand that reality. School kids, especially, should read that part. Fisher apparently had swallowed some very strong doses of reality herself.The last two-thirds of the book is in third-person with very little plot or character development. It shows the actress putting her life and acting career back on track after getting out of drug rehab. It has some funny repartee-type dialogue, some witty narration. But it is nothing like the first part of the book, and probably can be skipped altogether. I don’t know why Fisher made the book so disjointed. Seemingly there just wasn’t enough story to fill a whole book.
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