![]() Sure, it has the frame story of a parental figure reading to a sick child, allowing it to keep some of the same lines from the book, it loses the dimension of a father carefully abridging and paring down a boring and realistic book into one his son would be excited to read. It is, in a way, Goldman's retelling of the same story his father read to him, one that was clearly very formative for him as a young child. From there it continues on more-or-less apace with the movie, except for when Goldman interjects (usually at the end of a chapter) with his own reasons for cutting one portion of the story or another, and then later to comment on why he feels certain parts of the novel are important. It's a good eighth of the way into the book until the actual story of Westley and Buttercup begins. RELATED: The Princess Bride: An INCONCEIVABLE Ranking of the Movie's Best Quotes And so Goldman sets out to abridge the book, only leaving in "the good parts." His father, when he read it aloud to Goldman as a child, abridged it drastically, only reading the parts that would be exciting to a ten-year-old boy. ![]() Goldman is confused and infuriated by this, untile he actually picks up a copy of the book and realizes that it's terribly dreary, with long, boring accounts of royal lineages and the history of Florin. Goldman then tries to acquire a copy for his son on his tenth birthday, going through great pains and spending hundreds of dollars to eventually do so. ![]()
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