Wildflower by Drew Barrymore

[fernwehgypsey]

In Wildflower, Drew Barrymore entertains readers with stories of growing up in Hollywood, and going through drug rehab. She becomes emancipated at a young age and then becomes a young spoiled Hollywood brat. Drew Barrymore drifts without a purpose in life, admittedly partying in excess and conducting herself in a variety of outlandish acts with friends. She eventually comes into her own, acting and producing but her memoir falls short of maintaining readers’ attention. She is best left to acting, and producing, not writing.

[HalcyonFlower]

Do you think she wrote the book herself? This is a bad assumption but there seems to be a lot of famous people who have others ghostwrite their biographies/stories so I wonder...what exactly was a problem? The narrative or just flat writing?

[suzanneseidel]

Wildflower by Drew Barrymore is possibly the worst written book I’ve ever read in my life. Including my own NaNoWriMo messes. I agree with fernwehgypsey. Our gal Drew is not a writer. The book features contradictions and misused (and therefore nonsensical) phrases. She jumps from general to specific flashbacks and there isn’t really any kind of flow. There are a lot of exclamation points and “Oh my God!!”s. It reads like someone’s unedited journal. BUT I have seen interviews with Drew Barrymore so none of this was really surprising, except that in the Acknowledgements she does thank an editor so someone whose job it is to edit books actually did read this and say, “Yep, looks good!” There was one part I really liked, where Drew talks about coming into herself as a single woman and misuses the word “ironic.”

"It’s ironic that we rush through being ‘single’ as if it’s some disease or malady to get rid of or overcome. The truth is, most likely, one day you will meet someone and it will be gone. And once it’s gone, it’s really gone! Why does no one tell us how important it is to enjoy being single and being by yourself? That time is defining and amazing and nothing to ‘cure.’ It is being alone that will actually set you up the best for being with someone else."

HalcyonFlower, if this was written by a ghost writer, it's even more unfortunate!