Rating: 
Summary: The single best book I've ever read!
Review: From William Goldman (author of Butch cassidy and the Sundance kid) comes a tale of true love, escapes, chases, miracles, torture, revenge, giants, beasts, good men, bad men, beautiful damsels, handsome heroes, and a slight taste of humor. If you love a good fantasy with a happy ending, this is the book to get!
Rating:
Summary: Love story for all
Review: I would reccomend this book to people of all ages who believe that true love never dies. Wonderful composition that tells about the life of Buttercup who falls in love with her farm boy Westley. When she finally notices it's too late and he decides to move to America to become prosperious but promises that he will send for her when he is ready. News get's to her that he is dead and she looses all hope and doesn't feel like life is important any more. While all of this is going on prince Humperdink is looking for a wife and hears of this beauitful girl named Buttercup and he decides that she must be his wife weather she likes him or not. Buttercup doesn't exactly agree with this but has no other choice but to marry him. Westley is not dead in actuality and comes looking for her....Will he find her¿ I like this book because you never know what's going to happen next...it leaves you in suspense and you always want to read on. The only part that I don't like is that the person who rewrote this book keeps putting these italics. It really confuses me and when I'm done reading them I forget what was going on in the actual story.
Rating:
Summary: A fantastic adventure
Review: This story is a classic...miracles, battles, sword fighting, true love...what more could you ask for!!
Rating:
Summary: A book worth reading...over and over.
Review: This book is the book that my favorite movie was based on, so I decided to read it. Even though I knew the movie by heart, this book still made me laugh. There's so much that was left out of the movie that is great to read. And if you haven't seen the movie, the book is a great fun adventure that ponders the greatest mysteries in life, while making you crack up.
Rating:
Summary: INCREDIBLE BOOK!!
Review: I'll admit, I read the book because the The Princess Bride is my favorite movie in the world...and the nice thing about William Goldman writing the screenplay is that most of the hilarious dialogue is the same. The asides by Goldman are very funny (especially the one about taxes being older than stew) but you have to read it lightheartedly so they don't get annoying. And keep in mind that S. Morgenstern never existed--it took me way too long to figure that out. But it really is an incredible book, and it's nice to get a bit more background about the movie. It helps make the characters feel even more like old friends.
Rating: 
Summary: OK ,BUT NO CLASSIC
Review: I thought it was a fairly good book ,despite the fact THAT THERE IS NO MORGENSTERN. That ruins the book a bit, and I thought that Goldman's introuduction was awfully stupid. I mean,there is 30 pages of Goldman insulting his family and lying about searching for the original. I think he was bold to call his book a classic. The movie was great, but the book was only okay. And Humperdinck's plan to kill Buttercup was dumb. And Buttercup was dumb to marry Humperdinck.
Rating:
Summary: it was good but could've been better.
Review: the book was very good, the only problem with it was every time that William Goldman interupted and was babaling about his life and giving comentary it got boring when i was reading the intro...30 pages. you may think that he was talking trash about his son and wife, but then again he could be lying and making things up because he was lying about S. Morgenstern.
Rating:
Summary: Revenge
Review: I've read the other reviews and what no one seems to have commented on is the main theme of revenge - from Buttercup's parents' insults to Mad Max creating humiliations galore for Prince Humperdink, and everything in between. The dread pirate Robert's ship and of course, Inigo. Everyone seems to want it at one point in time or another, a payback and yet there is always the theme that life isn't fair, and that anyone telling you different is selling something. Anyone wishing for more information on The Princess Bride should check out the screenplay - I read it in a book of 4 or 5 screenplays of William Goldman's - including Misery, and Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. It explains how and why he wrote The Princess Bride the way he did. Also, I've heard that there will be a twenty-fifth anniversary edition coming out this December - hard cover. Have fun storming the Castle!
Rating:
Summary: Fantastic like the movie!
Review: The Princess Bride is one of my favorite movies so I decided to read the book. Even knowing the plot, this was one of my favorite books in years. Here is what you get if you already saw the movie: Goldman's short story about abridging the S. Morgenstern classic, more history on Inigo and Fezzik, a different scene when Inigo and Fezzik attempt to reach Wesley in the Pit of Despair (the Zoo in the book), and more on Buttercup falling in love with Wesley. It was all well worth reading.
Rating: 
Summary: THE GOOD PARTS? LIKE HELL.
Review: Firstly, I would just like to make it clear that there is NO S. Morgenstern. He is not real, and the pretence that he is is what ruins this otherwise marvelous book. The story itself is magnificent, and could become a classic. However, the wonders of the story are destroyed by Goldman's gimmick (and by destroyed, I mean beaten bludgeoned stabbed strangled run through a shredding machine chewed up into nasty wet clumps and spat into a volcano that a meteor is about to hit). For some unfathomable reason, Goldman made up the gimmicky idea that this was an abridged version of an existing tale, and instead of just abridging it, he rambles on and on. Some of the interuptions are amusing (mostly the ones in the film), but there are places where he will interupt and go of on tangeants for several pages. Worst of all, though, is the opening. As if the constant interuptions weren't bad enough (a pity; the story itself has a wonderful flow), he starts of the book with 30 pages of him rambling and insulting his wife and kid. 30 pages! If Morgenstern were real, then I don't think his ramblings could have been any worse than Goldman's. Actually, the worst is the ending. I know the book should be cynical, but jeez! It's sad, really, that this great story is so frequently interrupted by the author, just so he can tell you what making Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was like. I rarely say this, but the movie is better. On their own grounds, the stories are farely equal, and basically the same. The movie suceeds though, by leaving Goldman's interludes out, and it deserves to be the classic that the book isn't. Oh, and don't feel that the movie is a blasphemy towards the source material. Goldman wrote the screenplay.
|
