Amazon.com info for 'The Princess Bride: S Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure'

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Amazon.com reviews:

Rating: 4 Summary: True Love and High Adventure Indeed!
Comment This story is so charming and delightful. There is definitely something for everyone - humor, true love, fencing, kidnapping, the fire swamp, and the zoo of death. There is so much more detail and humor that was left out of the movie, that it was a real treat to read. Definitely a classic adventure story!

Rating: 5 Summary: Real Fantasy
Comment I was afraid to read this book and avoided it for many years. I so dearly love the movie and I just didn't want to be disappointed either way. If the book was better, as is usually the case, then my movie experience would be tarnished. If the movie was better then I'd be wasting my time with the book.

Well nevermind to all of that, because I LOVE this book and now the two separate entities will forever positively reinforce each other in my mind. There are some significant changes from the movie which should help separate them.

I love the inclusion of the character, "William Goldman". Oh, he's not a character you say? He's the author? Well he's one of my favorite parts of this book. I love the interaction between the characters, especially Fezzik and Inigo who throughout the book had me in all kinds of tears: of laughter, of joy, of sadness.

I read every word of "The Princess Bride" and I'm usually a big skimmer and skipper.

Rating: 3 Summary: my love has faded in time.
Comment The first time I read this book, I loved it, fullstop. The second time I read it, I was pretty angry about being tricked, but it was still awesome. Reading it all these years later as an adult, I noticed how sexist, racist, and lazy this book is. Don't get me wrong- enough of it is still entertaining that I didn't try to set my copy on fire, but it's not nearly as good as I remember it being.

Rating: 3 Summary: Ok Fairy Tale Book of True Love
Comment I had a hard time emotionally engaging in this book. It is mainly a frenetic joke that speeds rapidly by. I love Rob Reiner as a director and William Goldman is one of my favorite screenwriters. I just didn't love this book. I have always liked the movie, not loved it but thought the book would be better. It just isn't for me.

Rating: 2 Summary: Ok, but the ending was vague and unsatisfying. It was a happy ending but not happy enough for me.
Comment There were a few clever lines throughout the story that had me chuckling. It appears that the author Goldman edited a story written by Morgenstern. There were many places in which Goldman described why he omitted various pages of Morgenstern's work, but what he kept were in Morgenstern's original words. Goldman's editing comments took me out of the story too much. I would have preferred the story without comments. The characters, plot and action were interesting, but Morgenstern's writing style was tedious.

At the end of this book, Goldman edits the first chapter of a second Morgenstern book called "Buttercup's Baby." That chapter provides more details for the ending of "The Princess Bride" which is nice, but it also leaves the reader hanging because it starts a new story with unanswered questions. The writing of this chapter was not done chronologically which was confusing and made the story less enjoyable. My rating reflects my bias toward romance novels. Readers who love action, adventure and heroes with amazing powers would probably like this story more than I did. The ideas were creative and fun but the book needs a modern day rewrite.

Sexual language: none. Number of sex scenes: none. Setting: Unknown time (during sword fighting days) in Europe. Copyright: 1973. Genre: young adult, adventure fiction.