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Summary: to book or movie that is the question
Review: I like the book better than the movie personaly, because the book has such things as Zoo-of-Death. The albino in the moive the got clubbed over the head and did nothen else, but in the book the albino showed them the way and gave them his wheelbarolw. the only good part of the movie i though was that the maricle man was played by Billy Crystal, and his wife (The witch) was really really scary looking. On the cliffs of insanity the horses weren't white like they were suppose to be and Prince Humperdink wasn't a big masculine guy like in the book he was and could switch horses wile he was riding so no one horse had to bear all of his weight all the way through the ride. In the movie the albino was pushing a "hand-cart" , wile in the book he had a "Wheelbarrol". Again i felt that the book was ALOT better than the movie. In the movie Westly wasn't very well played amd look alittle "odd".
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Summary: Princess Bride is a love novel and a fairy tale
Review: In the movie they left out the Zoo of death which would have made the video a whole lot better, because they would have seen how good prince humperdinck was of a tracker and the pit of despair was just to dull. The albino in the movie got knocked out and didnt help Inigo and Fezzik which didnt give any credit to the albino because he was always trying to help westley. prince humperdinck should have been a fat man with a bad temper and always looked mad because in the movie he was not fat and was not mad all the time.
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Summary: book or movie which is better?
Review: I loved the book and the movie, but while I was watching the movie I noticed there were a few important scenes from the book that were left out in the movie. One of the first things that I noticed was the fact that there was no Zoo of Death, they tried to fill this void by including the Pit of Dispare. This was a nice try by the producer to fill the void, but it didn't come close to the fear the Zoo of Death brought. Another thing that was different from the movie was the fact that the albino didn't help them in the movie like he did in the book. In the book the albino told them where the entrance was and how to go about getting Westley out and in the movie they just clubbed him over the head and found the secret door themselves. The book also puts more detail into the beginning and setting up the back ground of the story where the movie just started in about where everything starts to take shape for the plot. These were all very important scenes that shouldn't be missed, they add more to the book and the producer should have tried to include them in as much as possible. Although there were things missing from the movie I still recommend seeing it, and you should read the book too.
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Summary: Princess Bride a good book
Review: I liked the part in the book when Wesley is a farm boy and Buttercups parents were always arguing about something or another and Buttercup never talked to anyone. She never kept herself clean and all she ever did was ride horse. That was a part that should have been in the movie but it was not.Another part in the book that was in the book that was not in the movie was the Zoo of Death with the five layers and all they had in the movie was the pit of dispare which was not all that exiting. The Albino went to go look for a wheelbarrel in the cart and in the movie he went to get a cart. The Albino helped wesley in the book and not the movie. When the Prince was chasing Wesley in the book he was rideing the white horses and in the movie he was riding some other horses.
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Summary: Book surpasses the movie by far!
Review: The Princess Bride novel is way better than the movie. There are vital things that aren't played out in the movie. For example Buttercup's parents and her upbringing were not even mentioned in the movie. The history of the most beautiful women in the world was completely skipped over. Being a vital part of the book, the zoo of death was not portrayed at all. The movie used a tree for the torture setting, that just wasn't right. In the movie Fezzik and Inigo clubbed the albino to find Westley. Then Inigo used his father's sword to find the tree. That never happened in the book, they listened to the screams and followed them to the zoo of death. Fezzik and Inigo had to go through much more hardship to find Westley in the book. They had to fight all of the floors of the zoo of death before they reached level five. This created alot of suspense that was lacking in the movie. Overall the book was more suspensefull and surpassed the movie by far!
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Summary: Adventure at its best
Review: The story in this book is excellent, one of the best in its genre. However, I don't like the way that the author toys with the readers regarding the supposed origins of the book. Clearly Goldman wrote this book himself, not the misterious Morgenstern, and it's not at all abridged. Anyone living in Europe knows that Florine and Guilder are not countries, but Dutch currency. It was fun at first, but after hundreds of pages of clear lies, I got fed up with it. He goes way too far, involving Stephen King as supposed abridger for the followup, and lawyers suing him for profeting on the non-existant Morgensterns work and so on. If he would have left out the abridgement parts this would clearly have become a classic book, and I would have given it a 5 star rating. Buy it - read it, but skip all the abridgement comments.
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Summary: Disappointing if you love the movie
Review: This was a decent book, but I feel my open-mindedness may have been compromised by my intense love of the movie. At first glance, I was sure it would be merely an on-paper adaption of my favorite movie of all time- not so. It has much author commentary which helped me appreciate many aspects of the film, and the history of the story. Be warned, however, this short novel goes through nearly a hundred pages of such commentary before getting to the story itself. And there were several enjoyable scenarios which never made it to the movie- but there were more scenes and classic dialogue that frankly, made the movie stand out as a classic -that were created AFTER this book. In short, if you loved the movie first (I don't know anyone who doesn't)- this book will let you down. If you read the book first, you may give it thumbs up, and then the movie will be a bonus for you. Unfortunately, I am of the former.
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Summary: True Love
Review: The Princess Bride is a book about plain and clear love. It tells the story about how much two people can love each other. A young girl named Buttercup becomes the most beautiful girl in the world. She can have any man she wants but she chooses a poor farm boy named Weasly. It may sound like a silly choice but she loves him as he loves her. Then a tragedy occurs and her love is thought to be lost forever. She dies in her soul and decides to marry a rich but evil prince. What has happened to her love, Weasly? Will she marry the evil prince? What lies ahead in Buttercup's future? This book is about a giant, a swordsman, a six fingered man, a torture chamber, an evil prince, a zoo of death, hate, revenge and true love. It will make you laugh and make you cry. The author blends humor with love to make a wonderful and touching story.
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Summary: True Love
Review: The Princess Bride is a book about plain and clear true love. It tells the story about how much two people can love each other. A young girl named Buttercup becomes the most beautiful girl in the world. She can have any man she wants but she chooses a poor farm boy named Weasly. It may sound like a silly choice but she loves him as much as he loves her. Then a tragedy occurs and her love is thought to be lost forever. She dies in her soul and decides to marry a rich but evil prince.What has happened to her love, Weasly. Will she marry the evil prince? What lies ahead in Buttercup's future? This book will make you laugh and make you cry. The author blends humor with love to make a wonderful and touching story.
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Summary: Wonderful! I recommend it highly.
Review: This book goes under the guise of being a revision of a "S Morgenstern" tale. It is in fact a cleverly written first-generation book. It is an engaging, amusing, and delightful read! I recommend both reading the book AND seeing the movie ("The Princess Bride")- the book goes into detail about the lives of each of the movie characters, and the movie "fleshes out" the book characters.
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