Joe’s Comments (group member since Dec 28, 2012)

Joe’s comments from the Not Quite A Topless Robot Book Club group.

Nobody other than we two, I mean. I could see of course that you read it from your initial post...

Holy crap. I think nobody else read this book...

When this book was chosen out of the list, I ran to the library that very weekend and took it out, then read it in a couple hours, which is something I never do with books...
I have to say, I was most shocked (no pun intended) to learn that Carrie Fisher's electroconvulsive therapy was voluntary. That was awfully big of her to basically get her mind wiped so she could be a better (eg not-depressed) parent for her daughter. Still a terrifying idea.

I had never heard of Debbie Reynolds or Eddie Fisher until this book. I do wonder how much of how Fisher's life went was psychic vampire father and seemingly absent mother and how much of it was her role in Star Wars and fame in general. Not to say that there couldn't be other factors but those two things stand out.

"Lagoon of mystery" is a phrase that will stick with me until the day I die. I try to say it in conversation at least once a day. I wonder if it would do Fisher any comfort to know that the toy that showed it off was garage kitted and not (fully) an
official toy. It could be trading one form of disturbing for another, really.

So yeah, that's my shallow-ass random thoughts. It's already fading in my memory but I could not put it down when I was reading it. Let me be the first to say I could stand to do more memoirs, anyway.