Was it good? Princess Bride
by Madalyn Thompson
Can I let you in on a little secret? This secret will take you back and forth in time, one that has no de nite ending, and not a singular beginning, either. It can take you to whole other worlds, and bring you back to one that wasn’t exactly how you left it.
For now there is magic surrounding every doorway, but also every lurking shadow, a time machine like no other, and one in which we see in our daily lives, but we never truly notice it as such.
Have you guessed it? Do you know of the machines true form? Have you figured out the secret?
All right, I’ll tell you. The secret is something evolving around texts for words on sheets of papers.
They consist of mere words strung together, but it is through this ring that little sentences turn onto the best stories ever created, and we have the pleasure read- ing time and time again.
Take The Princess Bride by William Goldman, one of the first books to get a major fan-base before fan-bases were even a thing.
Now, the majority will recognize the title from watching the movie or hearing their mothers rave about how good it is, and for that reason might never pick up the book and give it a shot.
Forget all that for a moment.
This book, no matter what you’ve heard before, is absolutely amazing, and one hundred percent recommended.
It begins with how the author William Goldman first came upon the book when he was just a child with the u and to help relax and calm him his father would read to him the story of Westley and Buttercup (yes, that really is her name).
We learn of the background of Westley the farmer boy and what the phrase “As you wish,” truly means when replying to Buttercup. It does take time a rather long time for Buttercup to admit her feelings for the farmer boy, along with truly understand how deep love can run through one’s veins, and what they would do to protect their other half.
In the end Westley leaves the farm to sail and make money in hopes of making a life for him and Buttercup one day, but with the Dread Pirate Roberts drifting through the sea no ship is safe, and therefore neither is Westley’s.
I won’t say much on the matter of Westley’s fate; for a mix of emotions envelop the whole affair, but an unbreakable promise does come out of it. Buttercup swears to never love again, and therefore says she’ll marry Prince Humperdink, a man she could never possibly love.
As time ticks by, and the up- coming marriage between Humperdink and Buttercup approaches, the corner a deadly plan is in motion for the new Princess.
When Buttercup is out riding one day she is captured by a Spaniard, a giant, and a Sicilian who has a thing for the word “inconceivable,” though doesn’t really know what it means.
It continues with the return of a certain pirate, but not the version of one we once knew, the kidnapping of what was already stolen, the re swamp with the deadliest attractions such as fame spurts, lightning sand, and the R.O.U.S (Rodents Of Unusual Size), and of course a remarkably disastrous unique wedding night.
I don’t want to give any more away after that because the book is full of twists and turns, and the most amazing adventures and outcomes out there. It is a classic meant for love and enjoyment to be read and passed down for years to come.
The Princess Bride is a truly inconceivable story that will last forever.