Andie J. (Andie) reviewed on 12/10/2005 + 257 more book reviews

In my opinion Carrie Fisher needs to stick to acting. However, some other readers disagree. This is a review I got from amazon. Fisher understands the process of addiction, that searching for escape, then denial, then endless justification. Her portrayal of drug addiction goes beyond drugs--I've never taken any, but I could see the patterns of addiction in terms of my many vices. She also understands the glad-handing movie culture enough to be able to depict it as glamorous, while also showing the pimples underneath. Bret Easton Ellis has nothing on her one scene of Suzanne going shopping: the brand names, the non-sequiturs, the endless vagaries are all things he would have died to write.

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