Reviews

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

frederikmols's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

loieveee's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

mchester24's review against another edition

5.0

What a delightful read— I’ve only ever seen parts of the movie (I know, I know— but now that I’ve read the book I’m going to seek it out), but now I feel like I know what all the hype is about. The book is written with such humor, charm, and irony that I could feel myself smiling most of the time I was reading it. Such a fun format to write it, as an abridged version of the real, historically-accurate book with notes throughout from the abridger— it made for a really clever and satisfying story telling device that suited the tongue-in-cheek adventure and love story background.

krugg13's review against another edition

3.0

I think I would’ve liked this book more if I didn’t know every plot point already.

marianordz's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

phoenixxx's review against another edition

adventurous relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

meggriffin88's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

sicreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

So….that was amazing. Me and my dad have a deal where I read the book and then we watch the movie. He said the movie is comedy. So when I read the book and my heart was being ripped out, I was surprised. The story is a novel it builds the characters, feeling, action and suspense. It was amazingly paced (fast yet slow, easy to read though). The ending was a bit more rushed than most of the story, still amazing. I loved the view of the son reading it and being so in love with the book.

In the end when he makes his own ending I thought I wouldn’t like it. I like when it’s on a cliffhanger so you can imagine your own ending. But he beautifully put the story with amazing view of what happens. The way the relationships got developed and I loved it.

Thank you to everyone who made this beautiful piece of art.  

pretty_pink_pages's review against another edition

I tried reading this book a long time ago, sometime at the beginning of the year, and I just couldnt do it. I cant even rate this book bc of how quickly it took me to put it down. I wanted to read it mainly because I loved the movie so much, which maybe that was my first mistake, but I just really didnt like the narrator in this story constantly breaking my immersion to go off on tangents about his personal life/personal experience with rewriting the thing when it really didnt feel like it enhanced or reinforced the story at all. It felt like there were two completely different stories going on at once and it was immensely frustrating for me.
When the book was actually focused on the characters, I enjoyed it. But I just couldnt focus and get immersed when the narrator was barging in every couple pages to go on and on about some meta “story within a story” thing. Idk. It just wasnt what I thought I was getting into and it kinda made the experience extremely annoying for me. I’m sure without that theres the story everyone else sees. But I just couldnt get past the constant interruptions where the story came to a halt for the narrator to insert commentary that I feel like it could’ve been better off without.

karlynrose's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0