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A review by pushingdessy
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
4.0
When I heard about it and up to before even the articles about it were released, I thought it was going to be more diaries than commentary. And I was convinced Carrie wouldn’t really talk about Harrison besides her massive crush (which everyone knows about, anyway). Really, I thought it was going to be about the whole, overall first Star Wars experience.
Instead it was
It’s not a critique because it was still a book about Star Wars and it was witty and entertaining; I just find it very funny that I thought it wasn’t going to be what it very much ended up being.
I already thought this, but after this book, the feeling of admiration increased because I honestly don’t know howwww someone who was struggling so much was still able to do what she did on screen. I mean, can you imagine being in the kind of situation she was with her co-star and then having to get out there and perform with him not only like you’re not having an affair with him, but that is also making you really miserable? And it amazes me even more how they were able to put all that behind them by the time of ESB (and earlier, actually, during press tours and private outings that I assume were willing?)
Reading the story and then the diary entries felt almost like fiction. Like, there’s no way something like that happens to real people, especially to people who’ve never acted like it had (not in that dark, twisted, problematic way, anyway.) But it did, and tbh what I’m curious about now is how they went on having a friendship and good acting chemistry after that. I’m gonna need a book on ESB and RotJ, please.
Also the poems were super painful but so good, wow.
Instead it was
Spoiler
mostly a 40 years pent-up discharge almost exclusively on Harrison (because even the parts of the diaries that weren’t about him were as a consequence of), and the diary part was a mere (but central) chapter of it.It’s not a critique because it was still a book about Star Wars and it was witty and entertaining; I just find it very funny that I thought it wasn’t going to be what it very much ended up being.
I already thought this, but after this book, the feeling of admiration increased because I honestly don’t know howwww someone who was struggling so much was still able to do what she did on screen. I mean, can you imagine being in the kind of situation she was with her co-star and then having to get out there and perform with him not only like you’re not having an affair with him, but that is also making you really miserable? And it amazes me even more how they were able to put all that behind them by the time of ESB (and earlier, actually, during press tours and private outings that I assume were willing?)
Reading the story and then the diary entries felt almost like fiction. Like, there’s no way something like that happens to real people, especially to people who’ve never acted like it had (not in that dark, twisted, problematic way, anyway.) But it did, and tbh what I’m curious about now is how they went on having a friendship and good acting chemistry after that. I’m gonna need a book on ESB and RotJ, please.
Also the poems were super painful but so good, wow.