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Title: The Best Awful: A Novel
ISBN: 0743269306
Author:
Carrie Fisher
Publicate Date: 2004-12-28
Publish: 2004-12-28
List Price: $15.00
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Definitely *not* the best awful.
I slogged through almost 100 pages of this book before just giving up. I kept waiting for something to happen. Some movement, some dialog - SOMETHING. But it was just blah blah blah. Not even the wittiest blah blah blah. This is the third of Carrie Fisher's books that I have read and will definitely be the last.
There is a limit to how much background I need on any given character and this book (at least as much as I could stand to read) went waaay beyond that. Was she getting paid by the word?
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2: The Best Awf
Even though this is fictional novel the story of Suzanne through her experience with bipolar disorder is as real as it gets. A great book for those who personally experience this very difficult illness and/or their close family and friends. I highly recommend this book.
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3: Not Worth Reading
After years of reading mostly non fiction, I finally had the time and inclination to get back to reading fiction. After enjoying all of the Jane Green, Gigi Levangie Grazer and Candice Bushnell novels, I tried this book... but try as I may, I was unable to read it. It just seems to be a series of ramblings and observations with no real story line. I liked Carrie Fisher in Star Wars and wanted to read about how her life was with a famous mother. She has a story to tell.... but should have let someone who is a good writer tell it for her. Luckily I just borrowed this book from the library and didn't waste money buying it.
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4: funny but scatterbrained
The main character is bipolar, with a short attention span when manic. I felt this book was the same way. It is entertaining and with many colorful characters, Suzanne Vale (narrator and protagonist) is very witty and has a fantastic way with words. But the events in this book do not flow naturally, instead there seems to be one disconnected crisis after another, as if a stand-up comic ran out of material but kept going on and on until she filled 270 pages. Even the ending seems an unrealistic, forced resolution. But it does offer insights into bipolar disorder, celebrity life, and the realities of a mental institution. It is hilarious writing and has stretches (the last 100 pages) where excitement built up. But with Ms. Fisher's obvious talent, it could have been so much better.
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5: "Awful" is right
I bought this book on cd, read by the author. If I were not trapped in a car driving for 6 hours with nothing else to do, I would never have finished it. It was painful. Ms. Fisher clearly paid for this to be published out of her own pocket. And she should have paid someone else to read it too, since she was way over the top.
Stringing together a bunch of "SAT" words and profanities to try to hide the fact that she is a poor writer just doesn't work. It became laughable as my co-worker and I waited to hear what would happen to the annoying main character in this ridiculous book. At the end, we both wanted our 6 hours back.
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