Reddit reviews The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

Looking forward to reading Ready Player One, I've been wanting to read that one, glad it was picked. Amazon has it for sale here for only $8 dollars.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, No Country for Old Men, and The Princess Bride also all seem to be fairly cheap buys on Amazon.

This list needs more Neil Gaiman.


Children/YA books: Coraline, The Graveyard Book, and Stardust are my favs. Do yourself a favor and read the version illustrated by Charles Vess, it is far superior to the (non-illustrated) mass-market paperback. I would link to it, but I can't seem to find it on Amazon. Sorry.

Now, at no point did you ask for short-fiction, though I would think it fits your criteria of being able to pick up and set down at a moment's notice, so I'm gonna rec some fine short fiction as well. Smoke and Mirrors is quite good, as is Fragile Things.

Now as long as I'm here I would be remiss if I did not at least mention The Princess Bride and the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett. I linked to the first one in the series, but it has been my experience that you can read them in just about any order you want with very little trouble. I usually just go to my local library and grab whichever one strikes my fancy. Terry Pratchett is an amazing storyteller and he also made a sword out of metal ore mined from a meteor after being knighted. That is a true thing that happened. I kid you not. Read his books. They will make your life better. Also to bring this comment full circle, he co-authored a book with Neil Gaiman called Good Omens that is just fantastic.

I highly recommend The Princess Bride by William Goldman, the book on which the movie was based.

You're better off reading the original novel. The frame tale of the film has dated a bit, and the "annotative" material in the book is funnier than the grandpa/grandson mechanic of the film that the book only alluded to. The book also adds an entire third layer of story-within-story related to the "original" version of the book. (Which is sadly reduced to a simple prop in the film.)

That said, I think the big thing with this film/book is that it is so quotable. While Douglas Adams had made obsessing and pouring over each and every little word his goal when writing the various versions of Hitchhiker's, William Goldman actually pulled it off with this one work.

You could read the book instead...

The Princess Bride has been on my To-Read list forever and I keep forgetting about it. If I had a copy, though, I'd definitely be done reading it by the weekend, because I'm sure it's that good of a book! :) This is such a cute contest idea. I love used books, so I think it's great when people gift them! :)


Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

Ooh, I adore this movie, but I've never read the book! Can I still enter? I've heard good things about the book and would love to read it.

If so, and if I didn't link properly, here is a link to the list it's on. I didn't know you could link an item and have it have your wish list info. If I did it wrong, please let me know. Thanks for the contest!

I would high recommend The Codex Alera by Jim Butcher. This is a sword and sorcery fantasy series that has a very strong back story of the main character finding true love. It is 6 books long so not to big to get into and I know that Jim's books have been used several times to get people either back into reading or to get them hooked on reading in the first place.
Another classic book is The Princess Bride most folks have seen the movie but I am always surprised at how few have read the book. It is just as good if not better than the movie.

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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure https://www.amazon.com/dp/0156035219/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_9SoxzbA4FMQ62

And furthermore that it is based on an amazing book.
by William Goldman

I haven't read that myself, but based on the description and notes elsewhere in the thread I might recommend these:

• the Newton's Cannon series by J Gregory Keyes - probably more serious than Chaos Walking but not nearly so grave as Game fo Thrones (did you like Game of Thrones?)
  
• Just about anything by Terry Pratchett
  
• Early Piers Anthony like A Spell for Chameleon, The Source of Magic, or Castle Roogna
  
• The Expendable series by James Alan Gardner (not the same story as the recent movies)
  
• The Red Lightning series by John Varley
  
• Podkayne of Mars by Robert A. Heinlein
  
• Snow Crash and Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
  
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
  
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman

I've never read the book
How does it compare to the movie????

I have not read the book. I have seen only bits and pieces of the film. Thank you for the contest.


Book

I've yet to read the book

I know a guy that's around 19 years old that JUST watched Princess Bride this weekend. I don't know how these people live!!

>I see you have the William Goldberg edition, rather than the original S Morgenstern.

William Goldman, who also wrote the screenplay.

http://www.amazon.com/Princess-Bride-Morgensterns-Classic-Adventure/dp/0156035219/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1409225286&sr=1-1&keywords=the+princess+bride