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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure - Community Reviews back

by William Goldman
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Bookish Blerd
Bookish Blerd rated it 2 years ago
This was tough. I enjoyed the books, but at the same time I can see why some people don't. The interludes, while amusing, got old. Some wete just way too long and boring. And the "Buttercup's Baby" extra...I could have lived without it. I did enjoyed the story and the whimsy. It was full of advent...
Leigha's Little Library
Leigha's Little Library rated it 6 years ago
I did not think I would have to start this review with a trigger warning, of all books, but here we are. Trigger Warning: Suicide (There is a line in this that really rubbed me the wrong way.) Fat shaming a child.--- About the suicide, the line is "She had never seriously contemplated suicide befo...
YouKneeK
YouKneeK rated it 8 years ago
The Princess Bride is yet another one of those classic books that “everybody” has read but that I have just now read for the first time. I don’t think I’ve seen the movie either, although it’s possible I saw it when I was very young and just don’t remember it. A few of the lines in the book were f...
Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite
Even though I’ve seen the movie a dozen times, it wasn’t until last week that I picked up The Princess Bride, by William Goldman. I needed something purely escapist (because I live in America and am a frustrated liberal and I read the news) to read and I couldn’t think of anything better than this b...
Sailing in a Sea of Words
Sailing in a Sea of Words rated it 8 years ago
Book: The Princess Bride Author: William Goldman Genre: Fantasy/Romance/Adventure Summary: A tale of true love and high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment of wild beasts - The Princess Bride is a modern storytelling classic. As Florin and Gu...
Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents
Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents rated it 8 years ago
This is a reread. I still really liked it. I like the story, but I like the feeling of remembering my enjoyment the first time just as much.
Tannat
Tannat rated it 8 years ago
My rating is for the main body of the story. It excludes the original introduction, the explanation for Buttercup’s Baby, and Buttercup’s Baby’s chapter. I didn’t like those. In fact, I’d probably call the whole Buttercup’s Baby sequence drivel. But anyway, I think I will enjoy rereading the main st...
Fiction Fantastic
Fiction Fantastic rated it 9 years ago
The movie was better... :/Honestly though, the book would have been amazing but for a few things that irritated the living crap out of me...1. Goldman continuously interrupting the flow with stupid pages on this, that or the other that "explains" a certain bit in the book or just says how he "cut 78...
Alissa
Alissa rated it 9 years ago
“There are no words to contain all my wisdom. I am so cunning, crafty and clever, so filled with deceit, guile and chicanery, such a knave, so shrewd, cagey as well as calculating, as diabolical as I am vulpine, as tricky as I am untrustworthy . . . well, I told you there were not words invented yet...
Mallory Kellogg, Chubbygirlreads
Mallory Kellogg, Chubbygirlreads rated it 9 years ago
Nope. This just wasn't for me. I love the movie, but the book was dull. It had some amusing lines, but over all, it bored me to tears.
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