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**SPOILERS**
MAKE SURE YOU'VE FINISHED CHAPTER TWO AND ABOUT TO READ "THREE: THE COURTSHIP"

The beginning confused me quite a bit. For awhile I thought I was still reading the Introduction, when in fact, William Goldman is making himself a character within the story. He has developed a fake author of The Princess Bride known as S. Morgenstern, and Goldman himself is meant to create an abridgement version, or a "good parts" version, of the original novel in order to show his son how great the novel is without boring him with the slow parts. This abridgement includes commentary by Goldman.
Like I said, this confused me at first. My only experience with The Princess Bride is watching the movie, and so far the book is quite different.
At first I was a little disappointed, as I found Goldmans character to be very bitter and not likeable (I mean really, a huge part of the beginning is him ogling over a woman in a bikini even though he's married). But after I realised that this is not William Goldman himself but only a character, and obviously he is meant to be portrayed in this way.

Once we got to the actual start of the story, I began to enjoy the book 10x more. The writing is beautiful. I absolutely love the way that Buttercup confessed her love for Westley, and how Westley responded. IT WAS SO CUTE. I was surprised on how different this is from the movie, but I'm very excited to read these differences.

Chapter two was very short, but it gave us enough to hate the prince. Poor orangutan :(

After realising what William Goldman is doing with this book (adding this whole separate story-line with a man making an abridgement to the very novel we are reading) I'm beginning to realise how genius it is.


What are your thoughts so far?