The Princess Bride
Ratings601
Average rating4.2
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Ratings601
Average rating4.2
*The Princess Bride is a timeless tale that pits country against country, good against evil, love against hate. This incredible journey and artfully rendered love story is peppered with strange beasties monstrous and gentle, memorable surprises both terrible and sublime, and such unforgettable characters as...*
**Westley**, the handsome farm boy who risks death (and much worse) for the woman he loves; **Inigo**, the Spanish swordsman who lives only to avenge his father's death; **Fezzik**, the gentlest giant ever to have uprooted a tree with his bear hands; **Vizzini**, the evil Sicilian, with a mind so keen he's foiled by his own perfect logic; **Prince Humperdinck**, the eviler ruler of Guilder, who has an equally insatiable thirst for war and beauteous Buttercup; **Count Rugen**, the evilest man of all, who thrives on the excruciating pain of others; **Miracle Max**, the King's ex-Miracle Man, who can raise the dead (kind of); and, of course, **Buttercup**... the princess bride, the most perfect, beautiful woman in the history of the world!
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The Princess Bride has been one of my favorite movies for decades. The book has been languishing on my bookshelf for nearly as long. While what makes the film great is there, numerous extraneous tangents and long expository interludes ruin the book's flow and destroy the experience.
Originally posted at rebeccasreadingcorner.blog.
Amazing. There is something in this short story for every reader: drama, action, adventure, character, and, most definitely, humor.
I can already picture myself quoting this constantly because so many of the statements are so very perfect for the context.
Do read this book, or listen to it on audio. You will smile constantly, and, almost certainly, laugh at least once. I'd recommend it to adults and young adults as a very easy and pleasant read. Perhaps a nice diversion after or alongside more challenging texts. This story could engage middle grade readers if read aloud...the commentary may be off putting at the beginning otherwise.
I'm going to start off by saying that The Princess Bride is probably my favorite movie of all time, which led to me having extremely high expectations for his book. Goldman wrote both this book, and the screenplay for the movie, so I thought that was an acceptable expectation. Right? Wrong!
In one of his additional anecdotes he placed throughout the book, he said “For those of you who have not yet thrown this book across the room in frustration...” and that spoke to me on a very deep level. The story is great! It makes for a great movie, and I will maybe just keep watching the movie and never read this book again.
The added parentheticals made it really hard to read in places - “‘I'll leave the lad an acre in my will,' Buttercup's father was fond of saying. (They had acres then.)”
The parentheticals, trying to figure out the whole Morgenstern vs. Goldman situation in the introduction, and the huge italicized sections saying what Goldman cut out of the Morgenstern book (which doesn't actually exist) probably would have driven me to put the book down and never pick it back up, if I hadn't loved the movie so much.
I did really enjoy that each character was given an extensive backstory. You get insight on why Inigo wants to kill the six-fingered man, and learn that he had a life before he was a drunk that Vizzini recruited.
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