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The Princess Diarist

By: Carrie Fisher
Narrated by: Billie Lourd, Carrie Fisher
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Summary

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.

With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks, The Princess Diarist is Fisher’s intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time—and what developed behind the scenes. And today, as she reprises her most iconic role for the latest Star Wars trilogy, Fisher also ponders the joys and insanity of celebrity, and the absurdity of a life spawned by Hollywood royalty, only to be surpassed by her own outer-space royalty. Laugh-out-loud hilarious and endlessly quotable, The Princess Diarist brims with the candour and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into the type of stardom that few will ever experience.

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Critic Reviews

Smart and funny...the pages crackle with one-liners

It’s an eye-opener for fans, but it also shows a gifted writer even at a young age. There was a lot going on between Princess Leia’s hair buns.
An unflinching, sometimes painful, sometimes hilarious look inside the mind of a 19-year-old … It’s invasive, juicy, sad, nostalgic and gripping all at once. It’s as if you’ve knocked the lock off of your cooler older sister’s journal and discovered she’s been sleeping with the hottest boy in school this whole time.
Fisher offers a thoughtful, sardonic meditation on the price of fame, cost-of-living adjustments included. (J.D. Biersdorfer)
[The Princess Diarist] is a radical truth bomb (Julia Felsenthal)
Carrie Fisher was so real it was dangerous…. My God, girls, we owe her a lot. (Sharon Horgan)
She didn't need The Force. She was a force of nature, of loyalty and of friendship. (Steven Spielberg)
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listening to Carrie Fisher was part Joy part sad but her words out of her mouth just brought me pure joy

amazing

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I felt a few times during the book that she knew she was really long for this world. Loved Carrison.

A little prophetic.

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This book was the best company ever in the less than a day I enjoyed every single word of it as it’s a rollercoaster ride of an extraordinary big life shared with a disarming sense of intimacy, unbridled humour that constantly had me in fits of laughter & the kind of depth of vulnerability that cannot be duplicated. Incredible. 👍🏼👍🏼 #fivestars

Exceptional.

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Loved it! Listening to Carrie Fisher narrate her own book so soon after her passing was poignant and surreal at times. This is my first Carrie Fisher book and I loved it! Her writing and observations are funny and clever. I highly recommend!

My first Carrie Fisher book and first Audio book.

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Absolutely hilarious with an amazing author and narrator. the insight into Hollywood provided by this biography helps she'd some light onto the true nature of stardom.

Amazing and hilarious

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