Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

11 reviews

issyd23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Carrie Fisher is a riot! Reads like stand up comedy/1 woman show - wish I saw this performed live & wish Paul Simon would write a song about me 5🥃

“But the main thing I’ve learned, I learned all by myself, no help needed. I learned not to get my tongue pierced. Because if you’re getting it pierced for the reason why I think you’re getting it pierced and you’re not good at that thing to begin with, no little piece of jewelry is going to save the day.”

God she’s brilliant - there’s way too many funny lines to include! Can’t wait to read her other books 😆

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Self harm, Drug use, Grief, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Abandonment, Bullying, Medical content, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Body shaming, Cancer, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, War, Sexual harassment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

followdiallo's review against another edition

funny lighthearted

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Alcoholism

usuallyaudio's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

2.75

This is a short collective of stories of Carrie Fisher's life, as written (and read) by the author. It's based on her travelling show, so it makes sense that it is somewhat all over the place, rather than a biography. The main themes are her mental illnesses and struggles she faced throughout her life and career. She has a comical and lighthearted way of reflecting on her life, but it could be because she went through electroconvulsive therapy to treat her depression. I was hoping for more thorough biography, but that is not what this book is. It is funny reading this today as it was published in 2009 and it almost felt like she predicted or spoke into existence some things that happened since. 

While I love listening to autobiographies read by the author, she did read this as though it was one of her travelling performances. ie lots of yelling at the end of a sentence for emphasis.

RIP Carrie <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug use, Addiction, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, and Body shaming

emparr02's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Addiction, Mental illness, and Alcohol

amris's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Addiction, and Mental illness

gabi_tron's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, and Eating disorder

c_aitli_n's review against another edition

funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

bashsbooks's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring fast-paced

3.75

Carrie Fisher is so funny and has so many punchy lines - Wishful Drinking ends with a zinger that I will be laughing about for ages. I appreciate how forthright she is about her struggles with addiction and bipolar disorder. Her choice to use her platform to combat the stigma for this two things is respectable and well-done. The thing that keeps me from rating this higher is that I know Wishful Drinking was originally a show, and it does not fully transition into a book format, even in an audiobook (although that is the format I recommend consuming it in).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Addiction, Drug abuse, Medical content, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, and Stalking

Minor: Fatphobia and Pregnancy

kshertz's review against another edition

funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

I love her sense of humor and I’m very drawn to people that are real and own their shit. That makes her a hero to me.  I loved the book. Some doesn’t age well, but like Carrie would care about that. I just wish it was longer. Also did the audiobook and highly recommend because her reading her life and her accents as well as her impression of her mom is well worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Mental illness, Abandonment, Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

selenaskitels's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Drug use