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Carrie Fisher
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"Narrator Saskia Maarleveld's enthusiasm makes Weller's exhaustive research as engaging as fiction." (AudioFile magazine)
A remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candid - and brilliant - Carrie Fisher
In her 2008 best seller, Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller - with heart and a profound feeling for the times - gave us a surprisingly intimate portrait of three icons: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon. Now, she turns her focus to one of the most loved, brilliant, and iconoclastic women of our time: the actress, writer, daughter, and mother Carrie Fisher.
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Weller sympathetically reveals the conditions that Fisher lived with: serious bipolar disorder and an inherited drug addiction. Still, despite crises and overdoses, her life’s work - as an actor, a novelist and memoirist, a script doctor, a hostess, and a friend - was prodigious and unique. As one of her best friends said, "I almost wish the expression 'one of a kind' didn’t exist, because it applies to Carrie in a deeper way than it applies to others."
Sourced by friends, colleagues, and witnesses to all stages of Fisher’s life, Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge is an empathic and even-handed portrayal of a woman who - as Princess Leia, but mostly as herself - was a feminist heroine, one who died at a time when we need her blazing, healing honesty more than ever.
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- Brad
- 12-24-19
Need a different narrator or director?
It’s like nails on a chalk board to hear so many famous names mispronounced! FAIRer for Ferrer? LolabriGODa for Lollobrigida? What the heck? Embarrassing. The book is good but have directors who know how names are pronounced or so the research. This isn’t the first title I’ve heard this with.
(Edited)I’ve now listened more and it’s all over the place. Mispronunciations of Warren Beatty, Richard Dreyfus, EST, Glenn Frey and so many others. I had to add more as she just prounounced Eurythmics as “youth-a-rhythmics”. Seriously. Get a director. Or if you’re reading a celebrity memoir someone who can pronounce pop culture names. The book is enjoyable but that’s an embarrassment.
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- Pennypie
- 11-23-19
Fantastic ... but
... the narrator has a lovely voice that seems right for the story but the constant mispronunciations were aggravating. Why would that have happened?!
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- Linda
- 01-16-20
Great book
Another terrific book by Sheila Weller. Well written and researched.. My only complaint is about all the name and word mispronunciations by the narrator who is probably too young to know who the people are that are in the book. The best one which really made me laugh was how she pronounced Gina Lollobrigida's last name. It's too bad the producers don't provide phonetic guidelines to help the narrators.
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- Shaun
- 12-31-19
Terrific and flawed, just like Carrie.
The narrator’s odd pronunciations are distracting, as mentioned in other reviews. However, power through it. This was an incredibly honest look at a deeply flawed hero and I loved it.
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- Helen Behar
- 08-14-21
Carrie Fisher would turn in her grave.
The book is fine- the narrator can’t pronounce anything properly at all. She clearly has no knowledge of her subject- not names or any cultural references. It’s really cringe making to listen to her. Did anyone direct or edit this piece before it was released? Embarrassing.
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- Michelle Westbrook
- 04-22-20
god bless Carrie Fisher
was a fantastic book, I couldn't stop listening. I grew up watching Carrie Fisher and loved her, was very saddened when she passed.
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- Damian Konopka
- 11-14-23
Bipolar addicts says great great book
Carrie’s story is exhilarating and death-defying. And edifying to someone who struggles with similar issues. Carrie is a beacon in the gloom and decay, life affirming and intoxicatingly rich.
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- Karyn Myers
- 05-05-23
I loved this book!
The story of Carrie Fisher’s life is fascinating. Her story is so well told! I was surprised by how much I loved this book!
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- matt
- 11-11-22
sad
A sad story about a wealthy and privileged drug abuser who basically abused drugs all her life .
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- Bird Miller
- 04-29-21
I learned so much
about the woman I kew as Leia. I grew up in the 60s so I had movie magazine photos of her parents and many other stars taped to my bedroom walls. This book is so relevant, kind, revealing and compassionate. I am so glad I listened.
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From the effects of fame on family and vice versa to motherhood and drugs, sex, and romance, Lisa Robinson has discussed every taboo topic with nearly every significant living female artist to pass through the pages of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. Here, in Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls, her interviews with and observations of fabulous female pop and rock stars, from Tina Turner and Alanis Morrissette to Rihanna, show how these powerhouse women fell in love with music, seized their ambitions, and changed pop culture.
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Bitter Boomer Author
- By Shiny Kopinsky on 10-30-23
By: Lisa Robinson
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Kidnapped
- The Tragic Life of J. Paul Getty III
- By: Charles Fox
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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J. Paul ("Little Paul") Getty III, the grandson of Getty Oil founder J. Paul Getty, may have been cursed by money and privilege from the moment he was born. Falling in with the wrong people and practically abandoned by his famous family, Getty was a child of his international jet-set era, moving from Marrakesh to Rome, nightclubs to well-appointed drug dens. His high-profile kidnapping defined the decade - and was permanently memorable for the ear that was mailed to his mother as evidence of the kidnappers' intentions.
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meh...
- By Rob on 04-07-18
By: Charles Fox
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Shockaholic
- By: Carrie Fisher
- Narrated by: Carrie Fisher
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Told with the same intimate style, brutal honesty, and uproarious wisdom that placed Wishful Drinking on the New York Times bestseller list for months, Shockaholic is the juicy account of Carrie Fisher’s life, focusing more on the Star Wars years and dishing about the various Hollywood relationships she’s formed since she was chosen to play Princess Leia at only 19 years old.
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I am getting very attached to Carrie
- By Slimer on 11-30-11
By: Carrie Fisher
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My Girls
- A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
- By: Todd Fisher
- Narrated by: Todd Fisher
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In December 2016, the world was shaken by the sudden deaths of Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds, two unspeakable losses. The stunned public turned for solace to Debbie’s only remaining child, Todd Fisher. The son of "America’s Sweethearts" Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, Todd grew up amid the glamorous wealth and pretense of Hollywood. Thanks to his mother, Todd remained down to earth, his own man, but always close to his cherished mom, and to his sister through her meteoric rise to stardom and her struggle with demons that never diminished her humor, talent, or spirit.
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Detailed & heartfelt tribute
- By Lili on 07-08-18
By: Todd Fisher
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Life Isn't Everything
- Mike Nichols, as Remembered by 150 of His Closest Friends
- By: Ash Carter, Sam Kashner
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies, Suzanne Toren
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The work of Mike Nichols pervades American cultural consciousness - from The Graduate and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Angels in America, The Birdcage, Working Girl, and Primary Colors, not to mention his string of hit plays, including Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple. Over a career that spanned half a century, Mike Nichols changed Hollywood, Broadway, and comedy forever. Here, for the first time, Ash Carter and Sam Kashner offer an intimate look behind the scenes of Nichols' life.
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don't buy it
- By Nancy L. Stein on 12-14-19
By: Ash Carter, and others
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Wishful Drinking
- By: Carrie Fisher
- Narrated by: Carrie Fisher
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked to play a princess in a little movie called Star Wars when only 19 years old. "But it isn't all sweetness and light sabers."
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Wishful Grieving
- By Cynthia on 01-04-17
By: Carrie Fisher
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Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls
- Women, Music, and Fame
- By: Lisa Robinson
- Narrated by: Lisa Robinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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From the effects of fame on family and vice versa to motherhood and drugs, sex, and romance, Lisa Robinson has discussed every taboo topic with nearly every significant living female artist to pass through the pages of Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. Here, in Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls, her interviews with and observations of fabulous female pop and rock stars, from Tina Turner and Alanis Morrissette to Rihanna, show how these powerhouse women fell in love with music, seized their ambitions, and changed pop culture.
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Bitter Boomer Author
- By Shiny Kopinsky on 10-30-23
By: Lisa Robinson
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Four Friends
- Promising Lives Cut Short
- By: William D. Cohan
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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William D. Cohan has proven to be one of the most meticulous and intrepid journalists covering the world of Wall Street and high finance. In his utterly original new audiobook, Four Friends, he brings all of his brilliant reportorial skills to a subject much closer to home: four friends of his who died young. All four attended Andover, the most elite of American boarding schools, before spinning out into very different orbits. Indelibly, using copious interviews from wives, girlfriends, colleagues, and friends, Cohan brings these men to life.
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Master Storyteller
- By Ella on 07-12-19
By: William D. Cohan
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Postcards from the Edge
- By: Carrie Fisher
- Narrated by: Carrie Fisher
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Abridged
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In a stunning literary debut, Carrie Fisher chronicles the excruciatingly funny adventures of Suzanne Vale, young film star and drug addict, who survives a rehab clinic only to rejoin the equally harrowing world of Hollywood. Out there on the edge, despair flips into hilarity, and we're left laughing as Suzanne struggles to come to terms with her various fantasylands. Carrie Fisher's reading of her first novel evokes the deliciously irreverent humor that formed the lens through which she looked at life in the '80s.
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This was filled with quotes that resonated with me
- By JC on 07-05-14
By: Carrie Fisher
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Renia's Diary
- A Holocaust Journal
- By: Elizabeth Bellak, Renia Spiegel, Sarah Durand, and others
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English. Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in Southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939, Renia began a diary. By the fall of 1939, Renia and her younger sister, Elizabeth (née Ariana), were staying with their grandparents in Przemysl just as the German and Soviet armies invaded Poland. Cut off from their mother, who was in Warsaw, Renia and her family were plunged into war.
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Faith, Hope & Love is captured in a diary of a girl as war came to Poland
- By M.G. Mitchell on 09-28-19
By: Elizabeth Bellak, and others
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Be My Baby
- A Memoir
- By: Ronnie Spector, Vince Waldron - contributor, Keith Richards - foreword
- Narrated by: Rosie Perez
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Ronnie Spector’s first collaboration with producer Phil Spector, “Be My Baby,” stunned the world and shot girl group the Ronettes to stardom. No one could sing as clearly, as emotively as Ronnie. But her voice was soon drowned out in Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, and lost in Ronnie and Phil’s ensuing romance and marriage. Ronnie had to fight tooth and nail to wrest back control of her life, her music, and her legacy. And while she regained her footing, Ronnie found herself recording with Stevie Van Zandt, partying with David Bowie, and touring with Bruce Springsteen.
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Be My Baby
- By Ray Robles on 06-08-22
By: Ronnie Spector, and others
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Handsome Johnny
- The Life and Death of Johnny Rosselli: Gentleman Gangster, Hollywood Producer, CIA Assassin
- By: Lee Server
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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A rich biography of the legendary figure at the center of the century’s darkest secrets: an untold story of Golden Age Hollywood, modern Las Vegas, JFK-era scandal, and international intrigue from Lee Server, the New York Times best-selling author of Ava Gardner: Love Is Nothing....
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Great Story
- By A. Holmes on 03-25-19
By: Lee Server