![]() Framing devices can be awkward, weak, but so many of us were fooled, or allowed ourselves to be fooled. Morgenstern when he was young, and yes, this led him to take an actual book and abridge it into the classic The Princess Bride we hold in our hands today. After his passing in mid-November, countless readers have posted about believing: yes, his grandfather read him the “best parts” version of an old dusty classic by S. ![]() That’s how talented an author William Goldman was. ![]() So several years later, when I read the 25th anniversary version, and it had all of this compelling, real-sounding information (wait, there’s a museum? they’re all real? the entire story is based on a true royal history! it is true!), I simply chose to believe it. I told my father so, and he looked at me, thought for a moment, and said that he didn’t think that was true. Morgenstern had written a boring royal history that William Goldman had abridged into a masterpiece. On my first read of The Princess Bride at age 13, I was amused and enchanted by the thought that S. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |