*** 3 stars
Honestly, I was surprised to have to rate this book so low. I read this years and years ago before the movie was a twinkle in anyone's eye and I remembered it so fondly. Over the years, various anniversary editions of the book have added a bunch of extra stuff. It's this stuff I found to be rather a slog.....
The conceit of the book, of course, is that it's a book within a book and that Goldman is not the ultimate author. As a result, he's added a whole bunch of stuff about the "real" (not real) Goldman and how the "real" (not real) Princess Bride book came into his life. The story covered by the movie is really the entertaining part. I guess this is my way of admitting this is the rare case where the movie is better than the book.
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