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Summary: I am Carrie Fisher's biggest fan and this book is excellent!
Review: I am Carrie Fisher's biggest fan and this book is
excellent! Carrie has great wit and talent and I am glad she brings it into films AND novels. She is one of the funniest people alive and I wish
her all the best for the future and a great life
to spend with Billie :) Also, I just wanted to say
that I admire Carrie for her willpower, too. She
sure had (and has) a lot of it :)
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Summary: Carrie Fisher can act AND write!
Review: I FINALLY read "Surrender the Pink" and I have to tell you, while I wasn't quite able to surrender to the story entirely, I did enjoy a semi-fun read. First, the down points. For being such a strong woman, Carrie comes off as entirely too sexist for my tastes. She repeatedly reinforces the idea of the "weaker" sex, continually whining and kavetching about how horrible it is to be a woman. I agree, women are oppressed and a lot of times it's tough, but this male-identified authoress puts her own sex and herself down entirely too much. (As far as the character being a different person other than herself, I'm not buyin' it.) But she does have some pretty funny insights about the human condition and that alone kept me grinning and turning pages. I was fascinated by Carrie's choice to include little science factoids on animal mating habits, juxtaposing these tidbits with facets of her own (character's) story. It was a nice frame. I also dug the open-ending ending,. Glad it's not TOO tidy.
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Summary: Funny and eloquently written
Review: I have to say that I didn't know anything about Carrie Fisher before I started reading Surrender the Pink. So I just enjoyed the book without having any preconceived notions about it. For the first 60 pages or so I didn't find the plot all too engaging, but it kind of picked up when Dinah travelled east. What I really enjoyed about this book were the language, mostly the dialogues. There is nothing particularly intellectual about them, I just thought they were funny and they made the book well worth reading.
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Summary: More thinly veiled autobiography
Review: In Postcards from the Edge you could easily see that there was only a fine line dividing Fisher from the exploits of her main character, Suzanne Vail. After all, Fisher had been in drug therapy; so was Vail. Fisher was a movie star, daughter of movie stars; so was Vail. The success of Postcards from the Edge, however, wasn't in the voyeuristic opportunities of seeing how Fisher's life was like from her point-of-view, but the point-of-view itself: sarcastically caustic and witty. Well, it's all back in Surrender the Pink. And I mean all back. Once again, you wonder just how much of Dinah Kaufman is fictional and how much Fisher. How much of this failed relationship between Dinah and her famous playwright ex-husband Rudy Gendler is taken from the break-up of Fisher and famous songwriter ex-husband Paul Simon. The wit and sarcasm are there as well, this time informed with brief quotes on the nature of sex in the animal kingdom. However, Surrender the Pink isn't quite as satisfying as Postcards from the Edge. For all the action that takes place here, what one remembers are the interminable "talking heads" on the cliched differences between men and women. Even though the characters (and Fisher) realize that they are repeating cliches, it makes it no easier for the reader to swallow. The only thing that kept me reading at times were the occasional glimpses of true lunacy that was the focus of Postcards from the Edge. Surrender the Pink is also a more traditional narrative, with chapters and backflashes that flow evenhandedly, rather than the herky-jerky, episodic nature of Postcards from the Edge. Unfortunately, the bridges in Surrender the Pink probably would have been better exorcised rather than be allowed to bog the narrative as they do. For all its jerks, Postcards from the Edge was the better book.
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Summary: Life with Paul
Review: Rudy is a thinly veiled Paul Simon. This is the true story of their love. Interesting to see how the two great minds interact.
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Summary: Problems about people you don't really like.
Review: Sometimes a book is written about people you just don't learn to care about. "Surrender the Pink" is a prime example of this. I never developed an affection for these characters, I just never learned to care about their personal problems. They just came across as shallow, whiny people.Some of the scenes, including being trapped in a closet in your ex-husband's house, were very weak and lacked originality. All in all, just not that much fun.
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Summary: Loyalty Soufflet
Review: Surrender the Pink was as enjoyable a read as Postcards from the Edge. Fisher does a good job of letting her characters age and mature although all of them remain somewhat troubled. I found Surrender the Pink an intriguing follow up to Bachelor Girl, a cultural history of the single working woman. Dinah, the protagonist, is a classic example of the conflicted single gal. She loves her job, likes sleeping alone and yet wants to married and maybe have a baby. She toys with trying to get back together with an ex but ultimately comes to her senses. The book, save for the tacked on epilogue, ends with Dinah deciding to stay single. The epilogue choses to save her from spinsterhood, although I'm not sure I like her choice of man. With the epilogue in place, I am reminded of the film Something's Got to Give and I'm thinking of the daughter in the film as being akin to Dinah.
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Summary: What's so funny?
Review: This book is sick! I'm not sure how I endured 67+ pages when I didn't like it from the first page. The "plus" is because I flipped through it after page 67 to see if I could find any reason why this book had such rave reviews. I could not find anything.Not only could I not find anything to laugh about, but I couldn't even find anything to smile about. Is there a "story" in here somewhere? If so, it sure wasn't in the pages I read. I'm glad I wasted no more precious reading time on this book. It's in the "give away" stack, but could be in the garbage.
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Summary: What's so funny?
Review: This book is sick! I'm not sure how I endured 67+ pages when I didn't like it from the first page. The "plus" is because I flipped through it after page 67 to see if I could find any reason why this book had such rave reviews. I could not find anything. Not only could I not find anything to laugh about, but I couldn't even find anything to smile about. Is there a "story" in here somewhere? If so, it sure wasn't in the pages I read. I'm glad I wasted no more precious reading time on this book. It's in the "give away" stack, but could be in the garbage.
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Summary: Carrie tops the charts on un-common wit in this one.
Review: This book was really good because of the fact that Carrie has a talent to put her emotions on paper and display the humorous aspects of life throught these wondeful novels she has constructed with her self-image
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