I can see the attraction of the narrative. Those good bits are a classic adventure, with pirates and assassins and evil princes and so on. Goldman claims to have simply stripped out the boring bits from the original novel by ‘Morgenstern’, leaving only ‘the good bits’. It’s an homage to classic adventure novels – Stevenson, Dumas and so on – perhaps a little bit by way of the pulp Sword and Sorcery tradition, and it’s presented as an abridgement of a genuine old adventure novel. The Princess Bride is a strange sort of book. Goldman has a great line every now and then, and of course the narrative is geared around Being Awesome, so there’s that. But it feels as though another little barrier has just come down between me and so, so many other people.
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