William-Goldman on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/william-goldman/ Recent content in William-Goldman on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Mon, 12 May 2014 11:53:25 +0000 Review: The Princess Bride https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2014/05/12/review-the-princess-bride/ Mon, 12 May 2014 11:53:25 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2014/05/12/review-the-princess-bride/ <p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1006502.The_Princess_Bride"><img src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328833366m/1006502.jpg" alt="The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure"></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1006502.The_Princess_Bride">The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern&rsquo;s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12521.William_Goldman">William Goldman</a></p> <p>My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/900626215">4 of 5 stars</a></p> <p>I first saw the movie adaptation in middle school. The youth ministry pastor decided to share it with us. I fell in love immediately. When I came across it again in college, I bought it and my wife and I have seen it so many times we can more or less recite the movie. Outside of Disney movies the only others we know so well are Snatch and The Birdcage. While I was in college I came to realize it was based on a book. At the time I was a huge Audible fan and I got it as an audible book. The weird narrative structure didn&rsquo;t make sense to me as a audio book. So I put it off for about a decade. Then, I suddenly decided to check it out from the library.</p>

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