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Summary: Non-Stop Classic Action Story!!!!!!
Review: This book is one of the best books I have come across in my entire life! It as a great sense of adventure that I have not seen been beat in a book yet. It also has I very deep love story that nobody can not be affected by. It shows you what is important in life. This is packed with magical places, true love, sword fights, and touching moments. Even though this sounds like a girl's book, it is actually awesome for both sexes. Simon Morgenstern writes an exelent story but I'm not so sure about William Goldman doing the abridgement becuase he sounds like a real jurk with all of his comment and all, he includes TWO of his introductions that he wrote and are so pitiful they were the worst parts in the whole book. Plus just when the exciting parts come along, he butts in and tells his own personal thoughts and I wish I had the origional because he takes out about 60 pages a chapter at least (not to mention that he took out the WHOLE chapter four and replaced it with a page of his dumb commentary. What I'm trying to say is that Morgestern is the real writer and that book I give five stars but this phony Goldman character; I give his commentary and introductionS an F- and 0 stars.
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Summary: Have you read a good book ? I have
Review: The princess Bride
by William Goldman
The princess Bride is one of my favorite books, the torture, the pane, the stupidity, the love. This book is the kind of book that you will start to read and as soon as you started you will be all most done not that this book is short because it is not.
This book is about a women named Buttercup. Buttercup is in love with the farm boy, but when he goes to America, Buttercup is heart broken. The gore that is fallow shall be known to the reader, And the reader only. This book is a grate you should read it.
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Summary: Better than the movie
Review: Everything that was great in the movie, plus more!!! A very quick read, but the kind of book you can read again and again! Truly Great!
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Summary: The Princess Bride
Review: The Princess Bride
By S. Morgenstern, edited by William Goldman
The Princess Bride is a wonderful book of true love and high adventure ( as the subtitle says). It is about a woman named buttercup who lives on a farm with her mother, father and the farm boy who takes care of the farm. In the beginning of the book he is nothing more to buttercup than a fly. When Buttercup turns sixteen she is visited by the count because word of Buttercup's beauty has spread to the far reaches of the land. He comes with his wife under the pretext of studying there cows. While they are there, the countess looks at Westley (the farm boy) and Buttercup gets very angry. This is how she realizes she is very much in love with Westley. When she tells Westley this, he says he loves her too and goes to America to seek his fortune. On the way there his ship is terrorized and he is presumed dead. Throughout the rest of the book, Buttercup is kidnapped and there are magnificent sword fights.
I love this book because there is a little bit for everyone. There is a lot of sword fights and hunting and battles if you like that kind of stuff (this was the part for me) but there is also romance for people who like that. There is devious plotting, horrible discoveries and trickery. I think this makes this book great for every type of reader. Becuse of this I would recomend this book to everyone.
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Summary: Wow
Review: This is one of the most increadible books I have read in a long time. It truely DOES have everything. I started reading this one morning, and at two o'clock the next morning I finished it. I honestly could not put it down. I laughed, I cried, I jumped for joy. If you like good books, read this one.
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Summary: The Princess Bride
Review: The Princess Bride, by William Goldman, is a romantic fairy tale. This story is for readers of any age and gender, as it satisfies every interesting aspect of reading. The Princess Bride is a fairy tale involving true love, hate, revenge, swordfights, torture, pain, death, heroes, and cowards. This story takes place in the kingdom of Florin once upon a time.
Buttercup, the most beautiful young woman in the entire world, falls in love with her farmhand, Westley. Westley leaves the farm in search of a job that will pay enough for him to support him and the woman he loves, Buttercup. While Westley is gone, Prince Humperdinck takes the unwilling Buttercup as his princess and future bride. Everyday Buttercup hopes for the return of her lost Westley, but he never comes. One day the Princess is kidnapped by terrorists, from a nearby threatening country, that are trying to invoke a war. Just after she is kidnapped Westley, in disguise as the Dread Pirate Roberts, is trying to rescue Buttercup from the terrorists, which he succeeds in doing by: beating a swordsman in a sword fight, overpowering a giant, and outsmarting a genius. After reuniting, Buttercup and Westley try to escape the Prince, but are soon captured. The Princess is taken back to the castle and Westley is taken to the Prince's secret underground layer to be tortured and soon killed. Once the giant and swordsman have recovered from losing to Westley, they begin a search for him. Eventually they find Westley in the underground layer, only to find that he is dead. The swordsman gets the giant to carry Westley's body to Miracle Max's house. Miracle Max is special doctor that used to work for the Prince. He concocts a miracle cure for Westley, and brings him back to life. The three of them go to the castle rescue the Princess and ride off into the sunset.
This romantic fairy tale tells the tale of a beautiful, but common maid turned into a princess in need of rescue, an even more common farm boy trying to win back his true love, an inebriated swordsman seeking revenge, and a gentle giant finding his own path in life. This tale shows the strength of true love and friendship, the trials of love, and rewards that come through perseverance. The introduction begins in first-person narrative and then as the story actually begins it turns into a third-person narrative. The overall setting is the Florin kingdom and its surrounding ocean and countryside.
This fairy tale has many strengths. There are an incredible number of different scenes with completely different scenarios. The scenes vary from farm handing to swordfights to kissing. There are many different types of action in this story and it keeps any kind of reader satisfied and keeps them reading. The storyline is happy and adventurous and there really can't be any complaints about a young man and young woman fighting for their love.
In the beginning of the story, the author writes many pages on his life and how he tried to find the original copy of this story- before he abridged it. The pages become endless and are in no way relevant to the actual story, though they are included as such. If the choice to trudge through these pages of ongoing nothingness, the story will begin. After reading about the author's ever so hard search of the book, the story is like reading a masterpiece because your mind is so bored with what it has just gone through that it will jump with excitement at the story. There is also another confusing addition to the story; Prince Humperdinck took Buttercup to his castle and they became engaged, while all this time Buttercup is hoping for her true love to rescue her. Never in any part of the story does the Prince threaten her if she tries to leave. Why would Buttercup remain in the castle, engaged to man she doesn't love, when all she had to do was go home?
Reading this story is actually quite enjoyable. There are many things going on at once, but few enough characters to understand what is going on at all times. For those who have watched the movie and not read the book, be warned that the book is different than the movie. In the book Westley and Buttercup's love is incredibly shallow and based mainly on appearance, whereas in the movie they possess true love. This was surprising but not a complete turnoff from the book. Overall the book is worthwhile reading, even if just to ridicule the author for his irrelevant beginning.
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Summary: An abridged masterpiece!
Review: I'm very happy to see there are many who have enjoyed this book as much as I have. I first read it in 1976 or '77. I read it many times, gave it away to friends several times, and kept buying more copies. I enjoyed the movie as well, and other books and screenplays that Mr. Goldman has written. But Princess Bride is my favorite. The film Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid is my brothers' favorite and they have the entire dialogue memorized, and can drop a line in sneakly to any non-related conversation flawlessy. Reading Goldman's earlier books, and looking at them in comparison, I find he is capable of much more variety than most authors. He can be dark and light, tragic and funny better than most that I can think of. Wish I could sit down and shoot the...with him someday....
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Summary: If you like the movie, you'll like the book
Review: The Princess Bride is one of the funniest books and movies ever. The book is very light reading and very similar to the movie, which many people have seen. If you are looking at this because you liked the movie chances are you'd enjoy the book. However, don't expect too much extra detail or chapters more of new information. To the reviewer complaining about the "abridged" version-- there is no original version by S. Morgenstern, so really the problem is not an over-abridgement but perhaps not as much development as you would have liked.
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Summary: Isn't It Ironic
Review: My familiarity with the Princess Bride has always been with the movie, a fun takeoff on fairy tales. Now, I have finally read the book and in certain ways was surprised at how things are different.For the most part, the book and the movie are very similar, which isn't surprising since William Goldman adapted his own book for the movie. In that sensee, there are no real shocks; even the movie's framing story of a grandfather reading the book to his sick grandson has its origins in the book. The book offers more, however, than just the movie on paper. Goldman has also created a whole fictitious history of his work and even included the beginning of a sequel. The history and his occasional asides are pretty clever; the sequel - Buttercup's Baby - is actually a bit of a disappointment, with stylistic differences from the main story that was written over two decades earlier. Overall, this is a great book, but fans of the movie should be cautioned; this book is more cynical than the movie. Buttercup, in particular, is both shallower and dumber than in the film and the true love that she shares with Westley is also much shallower than in the movie. That doesn't subtract from the quality of the novel, but the irony in the book is much more pronounced and it could disappoint those expecting essentially a novelization of the film.
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Summary: Not As GOOD as the Movie
Review: This book was not nearly as good as the movie. Although you can get a little clarity on certain parts of the movie, its not that entertaining. Its more comedy than the actual movie and tends to get a bit tedious to read. I did enjoy hearing a little more about each of the characters and their pasts which makes the book worth getting if you are a fan of the movie. Usually I would recommend skipping over anything that is a William Goldman insert since it usually takes away from the story more than it adds.
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