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Summary: I Can't Believe Morgenstern is not Real--My Bubble Has Burst
Review: I loved the movie then I had to read the book and fell in love with it. I raved about it to any friend who would listen. The book has an extra special quality that is hard to describe to others. Of course I knew Florin was not real and I suspected something was amiss when I received Goldman's letter but I swallowed the whole Morgenstern story hook line and sinker. I can't believe it! I have been searching for the S. Morgenstern book for years in used book stores. I am SO sad. I don't know how I will ever be able to read the book again with this new knowledge--the italics were almost the best part of the book. Would a really good novelist out there please consider writing the original S. Morgenstern's book for me. I still can't believe Goldman made the whole thing up.
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Summary: An amazing movie and an even better book.
Review: Some people say that the movies is better than the book, and some say the books better, but personally I think they are both the best ever made. Speaking as someone who can recite every word in both the book and movie, READ THIS BOOK! Then go out and rent the movie. The emotional attachment that you have with every character in the book is remarkable. This is a book you will remember for the rest of your life and will want to read over and over again. I have! (Ten times in four years.)
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Summary: Who are you people?
Review: It's been some time since I read this book, but I browsed these reviews when I recognized the title. Goldman writing is excellent, and yes, its a good story, but you can get the story from the movie in under two hours. The book is quite complicated with an excellent, almost cynical theme. It deals with an adult's reflections on the fantasies of his childhood from the perspective of the grownup world. Life isn't fair, and everyone lives happily ever after, until. . . . Still and all, the narrator feels obligated to tell the "good parts" of this fictional history, showing the continuing allure that our youthful fantasies still hold, and our wish that life could be a fairy taleJust for the record, of course Morgenstern, Guilder and Florin aren't real. Where did you learn history and geography?
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Summary: Fencing, True Love, Beutiful woman, and everything else!
Review: This is the best book I have ever read!! It has everything I love it!
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Summary: Why Does Ev'one Think Morganstern Is A Real Person?
Review: A nice, happy, funny, romantic book that is completely good-intentional and totally enjoyable. A very relaxing and involving book that makes you feel good. But after reading all of these reviews---AARRRGGGHHH! Am I psychic or is everyone else just dopey? I knew from the very beginning that Morganstern was fake as well as Florin and Guilder and that William Goldman had written the whole story himself. Is it really that hard to figure out? I don't understand how confused everyone is and how shocked they are to realize Morganstern is fake. I knew all a long I guess. But a good book anyway. Goldman is a gracious and decent writer.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I thought this book was great it was full of adventure and true love.It show's you that nothing can stop true love it can only delay it for a while. By Stacey
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Summary: Last true novel you'll ever read
Review: If you were on an island in the middle of nowhere with only this book for company, you would laugh the last of your withering body's moisture through your tear ducts without regrets.
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Summary: You people are retarded.
Review: The book, The Princess Bride, is a wonderful book. It is my favorite story. However, did none of you notice that the book came out in 87, when the movie came out in 87 as well? The "book" was a screenplay first, then turned in to a book. Second: S. Morganstern NEVER existed. "Why can't I find the 'first' addition of The Princess Bride?" you ask yourself. It's because William Goldman wrote the whole story, and the history, give him the credit that is needed!
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Summary: Awesome
Review: The Princess Bride is one of my favorite books. I remember watching the movie while I was in Middle school and I thought the movie was funny, silly and well great. When I found out there was a book I thought Ive got to read it! It is a wonderful book I urge anyone who hasnt read it to read it.
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Summary: A wonderful, funny, exiting, marvellous story!
Review: I read A LOT, and The Princess Bride is absolutely in a league of its own. I'm only 18 1/2, but I've read since I was 3 years old. I discovered the movie long before I discovered the book, and I love them both soo much! I didn't think anything could surpass the film, but the book had more of everything. The story truly has it all, and makes you laugh over and over, and over. Buy the book, see the movie, and enjoy yourself immensly!
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