The Princess Bride (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
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Description
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.
Eventually to be adapted for the silver screen, THE PRINCESS BRIDE was originally a beautifully simple, insightfully comic story of what happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince in the world--and he turnsout to be a son of a bitch. Guaranteed to entertain both young and old alike by combining scenes of rowsing fantasy with hilarious reality, THE PRINCESS BRIDE secures Goldman's place as a master storyteller.
From the Paperback edition.
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I have the resolution to read at least one book by a white male author per year and this book is so long on my wish list that I repeatedly forgot about it and remembered it again. So. I finally read this classic, this ironic turn on fantasy stories and fairy tales, and while I do admire the work that has been put into creating several layers of narration and sarcastic comments with reflection on narration itself, I have to admit that I was also bored recurrently. I mostly liked the characters of the story of the Princess Bride itself. I also enjoyed some parts while others felt dull even though I was aware that the rampant monologues were a funny add-on and the (hopefully) fictitious persona of the authors was hard to like per choice. Maybe I was also bored by the lack of female characters that didn't feel like they were written my a misogynist white male author, I don't know. In the end, I was disappointed to not be as thrilled as everyone else but that is probably a "it's not you, it's me" thing.
Description
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.
Eventually to be adapted for the silver screen, THE PRINCESS BRIDE was originally a beautifully simple, insightfully comic story of what happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince in the world--and he turnsout to be a son of a bitch. Guaranteed to entertain both young and old alike by combining scenes of rowsing fantasy with hilarious reality, THE PRINCESS BRIDE secures Goldman's place as a master storyteller.
From the Paperback edition.
Book Information
Posts
I have the resolution to read at least one book by a white male author per year and this book is so long on my wish list that I repeatedly forgot about it and remembered it again. So. I finally read this classic, this ironic turn on fantasy stories and fairy tales, and while I do admire the work that has been put into creating several layers of narration and sarcastic comments with reflection on narration itself, I have to admit that I was also bored recurrently. I mostly liked the characters of the story of the Princess Bride itself. I also enjoyed some parts while others felt dull even though I was aware that the rampant monologues were a funny add-on and the (hopefully) fictitious persona of the authors was hard to like per choice. Maybe I was also bored by the lack of female characters that didn't feel like they were written my a misogynist white male author, I don't know. In the end, I was disappointed to not be as thrilled as everyone else but that is probably a "it's not you, it's me" thing.