What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?
As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the "S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "good parts" reached his ears.
Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the "Good Parts Version" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.
What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.
In short, it's about everything.
Eventually to be adapted for the silver screen, THE PRINCESS BRIDE was originally a beautifully simple, insightfully comic story of what happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince in the world--and he turnsout to be a son of a bitch. Guaranteed to entertain both young and old alike by combining scenes of rowsing fantasy with hilarious reality, THE PRINCESS BRIDE secures Goldman's place as a master storyteller.
Goldman grew up in a Jewish family in Highland Park, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, and obtained a BA degree at Oberlin College in 1952 and an MA degree at Columbia University in 1956.His brother was the late James Goldman, author and playwright.
William Goldman had published five novels and had three plays produced on Broadway before he began to write screenplays. Several of his novels he later used as the foundation for his screenplays.
In the 1980s he wrote a series of memoirs looking at his professional life on Broadway and in Hollywood (in one of these he famously remarked that "Nobody knows anything"). He then returned to writing novels. He then adapted his novel The Princess Bride to the screen, which marked his re-entry into screenwriting.
Goldman won two Academy Awards: an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for All the President's Men. He also won two Edgar Awards, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Motion Picture Screenplay: for Harper in 1967, and for Magic (adapted from his own 1976 novel) in 1979.
Goldman died in New York City on November 16, 2018, due to complications from colon cancer and pneumonia. He was eighty-seven years old.
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天呐,这本书简直是把我带到了一个完全不同的世界!我得说,从翻开第一页开始,我就被那种古老而又充满活力的叙事方式牢牢抓住了。作者的笔触细腻得让人难以置信,他对于场景的描绘简直如同高清电影在我脑海中播放。想象一下,那种粗粝的、带着海盐味道的风,拂过你脸上的感觉,书中描绘得淋漓尽致。而且,人物塑造得极其立体,你不会觉得他们是纸上的人物,他们有自己的怪癖、自己的挣扎,甚至你会因为他们的遭遇而感到心痛或拍案叫绝。我特别喜欢其中对于“勇气”这个主题的处理,它不是那种空洞的口号,而是渗透在每一个关键选择和微小行动之中的。比如,我印象最深的是一个角色,他明明力量并不出众,但他为了保护他所珍视的一切,那种近乎鲁莽的坚持,真的让我热泪盈眶。这本书的节奏把握得也相当精妙,它懂得什么时候应该放慢脚步,让你沉浸在某种情绪里,什么时候又该猛地加速,让你屏住呼吸,生怕错过任何一个转折。读完之后,我感觉自己像是完成了一次漫长而又酣畅淋漓的旅程,回味无穷,心里满满的都是对那种纯粹、不加修饰的英雄主义的敬意。我强烈推荐给所有渴望一次真正沉浸式阅读体验的人,它绝对值得你付出时间。
评分老实说,这本书的结构和叙事角度太有意思了,简直是一场文字游戏的高手对决。我一开始还有点困惑,因为作者似乎总是在和你玩捉迷藏,让你猜不透他下一步的意图。这种“元小说”的写法,让阅读本身变成了一种主动的探索,而不是被动的接受。你得时刻保持警惕,分辨什么是被讲述的故事,什么是讲述者本人的心声,这极大地提升了阅读的智力参与度。书中对不同“层面”故事的切换,处理得非常流畅自然,没有那种生硬的跳跃感,反倒像是俄罗斯套娃一样,一层深入一层,每一次剥开外壳,都能发现更核心、更动人的真相。更妙的是,作者在看似戏谑的语调下,其实隐藏着对人性本质的深刻洞察。那些滑稽的对话和夸张的情节,到最后都会归结到一个非常严肃的主题上,比如爱情的持久性,或者信念的力量。这种反差感,让故事的张力达到了极致。我特别欣赏作者那种不按常理出牌的幽默感,它不是廉价的笑料,而是建立在对传统叙事模式的深刻理解之上的高级讽刺。总而言之,这是一本需要你动脑筋去品味的杰作,而不是那种可以囫囵吞枣读完就束之高阁的作品。
评分这本书在奇幻设定的构建上,达到了一个令人惊叹的高度,但它最成功的地方在于,它将那些超凡脱俗的元素与极其人性化的冲突完美地融合在了一起。我一直以为奇幻小说要么过于沉溺于世界观的构建而忽略了人物情感,要么就是人物情感过于简单直白。然而,这本书却找到了一个黄金分割点。比如,书中对“决斗”的描写,简直是一场视觉盛宴,那不仅仅是剑术的较量,更是哲学和意志力的碰撞。作者对于不同派系的文化背景、他们的信条、他们使用的特定技术或魔法规则,都做了详尽而又不会让人感到枯燥的铺垫。你不需要一个厚厚的附录就能理解这一切。而且,所有的奇观服务于故事的核心冲突,而不是喧宾夺主。我特别欣赏其中对“邪恶”的刻画,它不是一个扁平化的、只有阴谋的角色,而是有着自己的逻辑和吸引力,让你甚至能理解反派某些行为动机的复杂性。这种层次感,让整个世界的构建显得无比真实可信,仿佛只要我愿意,就能立刻买张票进入那个充满魔法和阴影的国度。
评分我最近读完的这本书,给我带来的最大冲击是那种无与伦比的浪漫情怀。但请注意,这里的浪漫不是指那种矫揉造作的言情桥段,而是一种扎根于信念和牺牲的、宏大到近乎史诗般的爱。故事中对于承诺的描写,简直是教科书级别的。它探讨了“真爱”的代价——它意味着你必须愿意放弃安逸,直面最可怕的危险,甚至在所有人都认为你疯了的时候,也要坚持你的信念。我常常在想,在现实生活中,我们有多少人能做到那种义无反顾?书中通过几对人物的关系网,展示了爱情如何在残酷的环境中幸存并开花结果。他们的情感线索交织得非常巧妙,不是简单的 A 爱 B,而是牵扯出了一系列的连锁反应,影响了整个世界的走向。特别是那些充满古典韵味的对白,那种措辞和语气,读起来让人仿佛回到了一个更讲究礼仪和深情的时代。我尤其喜欢那种“等待”的主题,时间在爱情面前似乎失去了意义,那种跨越了时间和阻碍的坚定,真的非常感人。它让我重新审视了自己对“永恒”的理解,并渴望在自己的生活中也能找到哪怕一丝这样坚定的力量。
评分我不得不说,这本书在展现“冒险”这件事的本质上,超越了我读过的很多同类作品。它并不是那种充满了打怪升级的简单线性任务流程。这里的冒险,更像是一系列意想不到的、充满偶然性的遭遇的集合,每一步都可能让你陷入比上一步更糟糕的境地。作者非常擅长制造“错位感”,你以为你找到了一条出路,结果发现那只是通往另一个更复杂迷宫的入口。这种不断被挑战、不断需要即兴反应的叙事方式,让读者全程都处于一种高度的紧张和兴奋之中。而且,书中对于“团队合作”的描绘也十分到位,不同背景、不同能力的角色,必须学会放下彼此的偏见和固执,才能在绝境中找到生机。我看到了真正的团队协作是如何产生的——不是通过事先的规划,而是通过共同经历磨难后的相互理解和信任。读完后,我感觉自己也完成了一次精神上的“远征”,那种从迷茫到清晰、从恐惧到坚韧的蜕变过程,是阅读体验中最宝贵的部分。这本书真正捕捉到了冒险精神中那种既迷人又残酷的特质。
评分The satire comments are nearly as good as the dreamy fairy tale (how not, they are written by the same author... no one's fooled, can they?)
评分讲真爱,但看过《一个陌生女人的来信》后觉得这个有点弱。。。
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评分not really my type.can't believe i actually finish it.
评分讲真爱,但看过《一个陌生女人的来信》后觉得这个有点弱。。。
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