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Title: Surrender the Pink by Carrie Fisher ISBN: 0-671-66640-1 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: September, 1990 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: What's so funny?
Comment: 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.
Rating: 3
Summary: More thinly veiled autobiography
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: Surrender the pink:Carrie Fisher
Comment: Very well written! Carrie writes with cunning wit. She Puts the visual in the readers mind. This book is artistically sound.5 stars to Carrie Fisher!
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Title: Delusions of Grandma by Carrie Fisher ISBN: 0671732277 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Best Awful by Carrie Fisher ISBN: 0684809133 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Postcards From the Edge by Carrie Fisher ISBN: 0743466519 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Blacklist: A V.I. Warshawski Novel by Sara Paretsky ISBN: 0399150854 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 29 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Conspiracy Club by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345452577 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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