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The Princess Diarist

By: Carrie Fisher
Narrated by: Billie Lourd, Carrie Fisher
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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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The much missed Carrie Fisher reads her memoir with her trademark wit and honesty

Funny and insightful

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The woman behind the princess.. Carrie shares her life before, during & after Star Wars. Her connection with Leia. Her heart with “Carrison” (that bit is heart wrenching). Carrie was, is & always will be an icon, with or without Leia. Rest in peace xx

Carrie on Leia & Leia on Carrie

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If you could sum up The Princess Diarist in three words, what would they be?

True love story

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I laughed out loud at times, cringed and felt compassion for an immature girl falling in love with a man who obviously just wanted sex. It was almost uncomfortable listening to the actual diaries.

Any additional comments?

This was the first book I have listened to by Carrie and I immediately purchased another! This is well worth listening to. It's a love story between an innocent young girl who really hasn't had any experience of love and Sex with a man who has no emotional attachment to her. It's fascinating to listen to and Carries witty style makes it enjoyable. After all these years she is still trying to be respectful to Harrison ex wife. I wish she hadn't passed away so young because I bet we never really got to hear all the stories.

Funny and heart breaking, a true love story.

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Honest book by Carrie Fisher. Talks about her life and of course a huge amount of this is STAR WARS! What she was like as a person and of course the affair with Harrison Ford.

Carrie Fisher - The Princess Diarist

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phenomenally funny, heartwarming, honest, Lough out loud. read it again and again. Then again lol

Carrie is a star

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