book: The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

book: The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure | William Goldman ...

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	• The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure William Goldman Harcourt, 2007 - 512 pages average customer review:based on 719 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I don't want to listen to Goldman

This is probably a shocking thing to say, but if you would like to know the story, then get the movie, not the book. As Goldman did the script for the movie, the book and the movie are just about identical. There are some differences of course, but the movie is really better.

Why?

Goldman pretends he is abridging some work by Morgenstern who is actually fictional. This IS the book. The thing is, Goldman continuously breaks up the story with a load of crap writing. In the movie, it was a bit charming when the boy interrupts the grandfather. In the book, it is like someone is hitting you in the face with the rotting flesh of a large buffalo and it absolutely sucks. Plus, the first 10% or so of the book is Goldman spouting off about nothing. As I was reading it in the kindle, and watching the progress bar tick past 7% of the most mindnumbingly boring garbage I've read all year, I actually started to worry that the entire book would be nothing but this. Had I downloaded the wrong thing?

I've read the Princess Bride before but with actual paper. The benefit, and probably why I forgot about Goldman's Mr. Hyde breaking in and ruining a good story, is that with a paper book one can flip the pages a lot faster, rip them out, and burn them. The Kindle does not offer this ability and that is too bad.

So if you have seen the movie, then great, you do not need this book.

Now, the story part, when Goldman pops some writer's strength immodium pills, is excellent. Witty and quickly passed with a great plot and memmorable characters and places. So if don't have a DVD player with TV, then by all means, buy this book. The moment you see a big section of italics, start hitting that Next Page button as if your life depends on it!

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William Goldman?s beloved novel has sold over one million copies. A movie, released twenty years ago, perfectly captured the spirit of the book and has introduced new fans to its pages ever since. In 1941 a young boy lies bedridden from pneumonia. His perpetually disheveled and unattractive father, an immigrant from Florin with terribly broken English, shuffles into his bedroom carrying a book. The boy wants to know if it has any sports. His father says, "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passions. Miracles." And the little boy, though he doesn?t know it, is about to change forever. As Goldman says, "What happened was just this. I got hooked on the story." And coming generations of readers will, too.

And coming generations of readers will too.

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