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The Princess Bride
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Mar 08, 2013
bookshelves: favorites, fantasy, avast-ye-scurvy-dogs, i-own, need-to-reread
One of my all-time favorites! Long before the movie existed, I stumbled across this book in my college bookstore. This cover spoke to my YA fairy-tale-loving heart:
So I bought it, without knowing a thing about the story. And the book was NOT what I was expecting.
It was way, WAY better.
If you love the movie, read the book ... and don't let yourself get bogged down in the long, offbeat intro. (Skim it if you need to.) You'll get a lot of background history on the various characters, which can be extremely funny, and a little poignant. The movie is in large part very true to the book, but William Goldman has a dry, satirical sense of humor that doesn't entirely come through in the movie. (The part about the Greatest Kisses Ever cracks me up every time.)
But it's still about "Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passions."
And it's wonderful.
So I bought it, without knowing a thing about the story. And the book was NOT what I was expecting.
It was way, WAY better.
If you love the movie, read the book ... and don't let yourself get bogged down in the long, offbeat intro. (Skim it if you need to.) You'll get a lot of background history on the various characters, which can be extremely funny, and a little poignant. The movie is in large part very true to the book, but William Goldman has a dry, satirical sense of humor that doesn't entirely come through in the movie. (The part about the Greatest Kisses Ever cracks me up every time.)
But it's still about "Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passions."
And it's wonderful.
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“There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive. But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees deserve full marks. Well, this one left them all behind.”
― The Princess Bride
― The Princess Bride
Reading Progress
Finished Reading
March 8, 2013
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October 2, 2013
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favorites
March 27, 2015
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fantasy
March 27, 2015
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April 20, 2015
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i-own
April 20, 2015
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need-to-reread
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No, it’s actually been a while since I read it, but I’ve probably read it 4 or 5 times over the years. I was reminded of it today because it showed up in my email as a $1.99 Kindle sale, but it turned out the Kindle sale wasn’t that great ($8.99) so I didn’t bother mentioning it. But the book was now on my mind so I went ahead and wrote a short review. :)
It is actually on sale for 2.99$.
وردٌ wrote: "It is actually on sale for 2.99$."It still shows as $8.99 for the Kindle in the US. :/ I know I still have that old paperback hiding in my downstairs book collection, though.
Literally one of the best movies ever, and a really great book, too. I read the 25th anniversary edition of this a year or two ago, and there is some brilliant snark in a long preface about how he didn't write the original but merely translated it and deserves no credit, and how his new story about Princess Buttercup, which he claims is even more brilliant, is being spurned by the idiot movie moguls. Is this that version, I wonder? Or am I not recalling correctly, even... it's been a while...
Did you reread this today?