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The heart of the story revolves around Buttercup, a farm girl with surpassing beauty, and Westley, her family’s farm boy. He notes throughout the novel when he omits large chunks of (ostensibly useless) information, including histories and genealogies of Florin. Thus, Goldman details the “good parts version” of this story, about true love, strong hate, and harsh revenge.

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Goldman realizes that his father was telling him the “good parts version”, and works to publish this abridgement for future generations. After his son quits the book in chapter 2, Goldman takes a look himself and realizes that his father omitted large portions of the text. In fact, after Goldman gets the book for his son, he realizes that he himself has never read the novel. Morgenstern’s The Princess Bride, which Goldman’s father first read to him. The book that first spurred on this love was S.

The Princess Bride is the story of how William Goldman grew up to be a writer after he fell in love with adventure books. I wonder if Christopher Nolan received some inspiration for his Inception movie with books like this. While the movie consistently takes the best parts of the book, The Princess Bridecan stand on its own as a great novel. After reading the novel, I did not find this to be true. However, I was warned that, unlike many adaptations, the movie eclipsed the book.

I absolutely love the movie, so naturally the book provided a great choice to the 2020 reading challenge prompt “A book-to-movie adaptation you have seen but not read”. Although I first viewed The Princess Bride nearly twenty years ago, I had never read the book.