one of my all-time favorite books, and I have read it (many times)

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	• The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure William Goldman Harcourt, 2007 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 672 reviews view larger image
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Read the italics

First of all, this book isn't really about a princess and a pirate and giant rats. That story is in there, but the book is really about the italics. It's a satire and a well written spoof. My daughter sat down one afternoon and a couple of hours later set the book aside and declared she was finished; that the book was really kind of silly and boring. "No way!" was my response, "Did you read the italics?". She had not and she had missed the whole point of the book. She picked up the book and read it again, this time with the italics. I heard frequent giggles, snorts and all out guffaws. The "story" is just what you see in the movie; cute, fun and plenty of adventure. The italics show you how brilliant William Goldman is in creating an abridged version of a book that never existed.

This book was my selection for the monthly reading in my book club and we had a great time discussing this book and everyone's reaction to the story. Many of the people in the club had to Google William Goldman and S. Morgenstern and still could believe it was "ALL" fiction.

If you want to read an incredibly well written spoof on a historical book that never really existed, read this one. If you want to read a fairytale about giant rats and princesses being rescued, check out the children's section.

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Not Free SF Reader

A fantasy joke wrapped in a joke, wrapped in whatever material the covers are made out of.

Perhaps you could call it a double satire, as the author makes up a framing device of falsehood to insert inbetween the adventures of the over the top princesses, swordsmen, giants and the like.

Definitely funny, in parts, but not hilarious.

3.5 out of 5

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Great Service and Awesome Book

I just want to say that I ordered this book a week ago and Amazon said that it wasnt going to be able to ship until 3 days ago and not arrive until next friday a week from now... they really underestimated USPS because I got the book today and it is exactly what I thought I was getting. Hurray for super save shiping :). I read this book when I was younger and now I cant wait to read it again especially now that I almost have the movie memorized from watching it so much.
If you havent read this book or seen the movie you should definitely do both and you will enjoy every minute of it.

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one of my all-time favorite books, and I have read it (many times)

One of my all-time absolute favorite books. Like most of the world, I fell in love with the movie (which is one of my all-time absolute favorite movies) first, and then delved into the book. The book is essentially the same (as William Goldman wrote the screenplay), with all the wonderful characters (my favorite has to be the tormented revenge-obsessed sword wizard Inigo Montoya), great Monty Pythonesque humor, incredibly clever adventures (the Cliffs of Insanity, the Fire Swamp, the Pit of Death) and the beautiful romance between Buttercup and Westley. Sure, it's not the deepest book ever written, but its so much fun. Probably one of the greatest modern fairy tales/fantasy stories. But there are a few things that the books as that the immortal film lacks. First of all, more information (particularly concerning Inigo and Fezzik). Probably most obvious is Goldman's clever style. The fake abridgement allows him to make comments on this beloved story from his childhood and to make (depressing) commentary about how real life just isn't as good as sword fights and elevated love. Ironically, he's also satirizing fantasy authors that use their stories to tell some sort of political message--ruining the great fun of an exciting story. Goldman's voice and prose is also definitely worth the read. He writes an exciting and climatic and humorous tale seemingly without effort. He plays a great game with the audience. But the best thing that the book has (in the later editions), is a chapter from Buttercup's Baby. This chapter--all about the events after PB, some wonderful flashback having to do with my favorite Inigo, and dealing with the birth of Waverly and the death of Fezzik (that's the name of the chapter, so I didn't spoil anything)--makes me thoroughly eager for the sequel, if it should ever emerge.

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