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The Princess Bride by William Goldman

17 reviews

tak_everlasting's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot

2.75

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abbyluvsfrogs444's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny inspiring tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

This would've been better without all of Goldman's stupid interruptions.
Obviously this is a fictional story and S. Morgenstern did not exist.
I had a very hard time enjoying this book when Goldman kept interrupting himself to add some useless fact or tell a story about his childhood. I skipped the first 42 pages cause he just rambles on. I just wanted the story of Buttercup and Westley. I don't care if you think he was a genius for how he writes this, I found it insufferable. I would've rated it two stars but I did like the story (minus Goldman being annoying). 

Bottom line: THE MOVIE IS BETTER!
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rgraham's review against another edition

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adventurous funny medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

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adventurous lighthearted tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
I haven't read this book in over 10 years, and my take on it is very different now. It's surprisingly mean-spirited in a lot of places (especially the frame narrative), and the fatphobia and body-shaming are really relentless. And for all I remember it as a sweeping love story, it's actually super cynical about romantic love. But in other ways it's still as funny and surprising and just plain fun as it was the first time I read it more than 2 decades ago.
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miagw962's review against another edition

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adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

"Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard, and you never heard."

Knew I was going to love this because I watched the movie recently and loved it. Completely understand why it is lauded as such a classic. This is one of the funniest books I've ever read - I don't usually smile or actually laugh out loud reading books but this one got me multiple times. I think some plot points were maybe a little convoluted (even with the 'abridgement') but most of it was just fun and lovely. Extremely loveable characters - Inigo and Fezzik, you are my everything. Happy I got to read this one.
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candycain's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging funny medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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kelseyr713's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Second time I've read this, the first being sometime in high school so somewhere between 15-19 years ago.

The story of The Princess Bride itself is great. I think the movie version is even better, one of the rare cases this applies. The best subplots that don't make it to the movie are Fezzik's backstory and even more of Inigo's. The Zoo of Death is a little tedious.

I mostly like the commentary by Goldman, who is not himself in the book but rather another character. But I don’t  understand why he portrays "himself" so unsympathetically and would appreciate more context into the parts where he talks about "his" life. Some of it is real, but he invents a different wife and a different child, among other things, and isn't nice to either of them. The asides during the book are mostly funny though, and every time Stephen King pops up is great. He clearly has a lot of thoughts on the abridgment process, and this is an interesting way to explore those.

I also think it's interesting that the overall theme of the book, which he overtly mentions a few times, is that life isn't fair. Subverting a lot of fairy tales and perhaps inserting some of his own outlook.

Content warnings: a lot of fatphobia, a homophobic slur, an ethnic slur towards a Spanish person.
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