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The Best Awful |  | Author: Carrie Fisher
Publisher: Pocket Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 194632
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0743478576
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780743478571
ASIN: 0743478576
Publication Date: February 7, 2005
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Carrie Fisher's IThe Best Awful/I returns IPostcards from the Edge/I fans to the often hilarious, occasionally tragic, but always captivating world of Suzanne Vale, a bi-polar, celebrity talk show host with a six-year-old daughter, a gay ex-husband, an aging starlet mother, and an unbreakable will to survive. After Suzanne stops taking her medication, Fisher treats us to the wild, hysterical ride that follows Suzanne's manic episodes, including a search for Oxycontin in Tijuana with her tattoo artist and a new house guest in the form of Hoyt, a clinically depressed patient Suzanne picks up at her psychopharmacologist's office. Even after the inevitable psychotic break lands Suzanne at Shady Lanes, where she's the "latest loony to hit the bin" Fisher never deviates from her trademark wit and uncanny ability to find truth in every irony: blockquoteYou entered the hospital broken, found some other like broken patient people, and once in their company, looked down on the other more pathetic inhabitants of the bin you shared, those flying even lower than you and your low-flung co-conspirators.../blockquote An insider's look at the Hollywood most of us only read about in supermarket checkout lines, IThe Best Awful/I doesn't strive to be anything other than what it is--a rambunctious, honest, wise-cracking trip to rock bottom and back again. Supporting characters are just that, a backdrop against whom Suzanne hopes to find a plausible sense of self. For readers who can accept this novel for what it is, IThe Best Awful/I promises over 250 pages of uninhibited entertainment. I--Gisele Toueg, Amazon.com/I
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| Customer Reviews:
 Bipolar Entertainment July 21, 2006
Jezmo (London, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is full of witty word play, puns and smart one-liners.
br /This is a humourous account of Hollywood life, motherhood and most importantly bipolar disorder. There were times when I couldn't put the book down: the story is so manic and funny that at times I felt high.
br /My favourite part documents our hero's enjoyment of crusing around in her car with the roof down, music blaring, talking wildly to the radio and waving at strangers and passers-by.
br /I should say no more except read this - for the advice on tongue-percing, haircuts and converting to Judaism; for the clash of responsibilties and irresponsibities; relationships and rehabilitation, friendships and addictions, for that certain "je ne sais Kuala Lumpur" and mainly for the great word-play.
 funny but scatterbrained June 2, 2007
anibani (Cambridgeshire)
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 colourful 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.
 too carzy and pointless July 13, 2006
Faith (Finland)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Best Awful, sequel to Postcards From the Edge... I really liked Postcards cos it was so crazy and different. But this one I didn't really like. It was too carzy and pointless. Plain boring. The ex-Holliwood star is mentallt unslabile again... Only now she has dauther to worry about too. Fisher didn't manage to make it funny this time. At some point I even concidered not finnishing the book...
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