What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?
As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears.
Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.
What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.
In short, it's about everything.
As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears.
Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.
What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.
In short, it's about everything.
I absolutely LOVE the movie so I really wanted to read this book. It was different than I expected, what with all the parts of "the author" writing about his life and how he came about abridging S. Morgenstern's version of the book into just the "good parts" of the story. Obviously that is not in any part of the movie so it was unexpected. But I think it brought something unique to the story and I was rather interested by it.
The characters in this story - amazing! How can you not love Fezzik and Vizzini and Westley and Inigo? They are all so classic it just makes for a fabulous story.
The movie follows the book pretty closely, with a few tweaks here and there. I really enjoyed the information that was in this book compared to the movie. It helps the reader connect even more to the characters. For example, the back story of Westley and Buttercup and how they discovered they love each other. We also were given the history of Inigo Montoya and why he feels the intense desire to avenge his father.
Speaking of his father, there are so many great one-liners in this story!
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
CLASSIC!
William Goldman created a work of magic with this story. What a talented writer! Seriously, this story has it all and I really enjoyed it.
Rating: 4/5
* a book that became a movie
1 comment:
Ahh, it makes sense to me now why you read Cary Elwes' book...
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