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6/25/2017
Enjoyable and interesting, but does not delve as deeply as I'd hoped
This is an enjoyable, bittersweet book -- but not the substantial, introspective work I had hoped it would be. The section of the book which is the diary of a lovelorn 19-year-old is really quite banal and not terribly interesting -- to the extent that I just skipped a lot of that.
The interesting part of the book is what's written by a woman with decades of life experience as an actress and screenwriter -- a woman of wit and cleverness, someone who is all too aware of, and owns, their weaknesses, yet who persists nonetheless. But it doesn't delve as deeply into personal introspection as I would have liked.
I am hoping that she was writing a lengthy, substantial autobiography, that it was kept current with events, and that it is out there with her agent or attorney waiting to be published at some later date. A bio of Fisher written by someone else doesn't really hold any appeal for me. Hopefully her own version is in a lockbox somewhere, and we'll eventually get to see it.
In the meantime, this is an interesting look inside the mind of an incredibly intelligent and witty human being, who was taken from the world far too early.