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A review by acschaffer
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
5.0
Confession. I’ve never seen the movie, at least not enough of it to count. A lot of my college friends were cult followers, but it seemed like the only scene I ever caught was, “Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam… And wuv, tru wuv, will fowow you foweva… So tweasure your wuv.”
This book? Oh you guys, it is wonderful. So clever, so entertaining, and so funny! It’s an easy-to-read classic that I will recommend to anyone with a decent sense of humor. I even think that people who don’t normally like to read would have a good time with this one. I read the 30th anniversary edition with an introduction written by the author, William Goldman. I was so naïve that I actually BELIEVED the book was based on a classic tale originally written by an author called Hammerstein, and that Goldman has a hot-shot psychologist wife and an overweight son. But then the intro went a little too far over the top, and I did some of my own research that revealed the joke. Goldman is 85 now, and I just know that he would be tickled to know that he got me on that!
I don’t read books more than once, but this one has so many zingers and absurdities woven into it that I wouldn’t mind reading it again. It’s no wonder people love it! It reminded me of Lemony Snicket’s The Bad Beginning when the author breaks into the story with little asides. But then I realized that The Princess Bride was written 26 years earlier than The Bad Beginning, so I guess now we know who copied whom. Evidentially I was a little behind on my reading and should have read The Princess Bride a few years ago!
I can’t yet compare the book to the movie…yet. But I did verify that it’s available on Amazon Prime Video. It’s the first thing on my watch list.
This book? Oh you guys, it is wonderful. So clever, so entertaining, and so funny! It’s an easy-to-read classic that I will recommend to anyone with a decent sense of humor. I even think that people who don’t normally like to read would have a good time with this one. I read the 30th anniversary edition with an introduction written by the author, William Goldman. I was so naïve that I actually BELIEVED the book was based on a classic tale originally written by an author called Hammerstein, and that Goldman has a hot-shot psychologist wife and an overweight son. But then the intro went a little too far over the top, and I did some of my own research that revealed the joke. Goldman is 85 now, and I just know that he would be tickled to know that he got me on that!
I don’t read books more than once, but this one has so many zingers and absurdities woven into it that I wouldn’t mind reading it again. It’s no wonder people love it! It reminded me of Lemony Snicket’s The Bad Beginning when the author breaks into the story with little asides. But then I realized that The Princess Bride was written 26 years earlier than The Bad Beginning, so I guess now we know who copied whom. Evidentially I was a little behind on my reading and should have read The Princess Bride a few years ago!
I can’t yet compare the book to the movie…yet. But I did verify that it’s available on Amazon Prime Video. It’s the first thing on my watch list.