Think about the stories that taught you life's lessons before life got around to doing it. And as you read, just remember the books that molded you into who you are today. So, whether you read the book or see the movie, you're in for a treat. The hardest part about reading the book is trying not to hear Andre the Giant, Christopher Guest, Robin Wright and all the other fine actors and actresses in your head as you read. It was gold in print and gold on the screen. I'm sure a lot of this has to do with the fact that Goldman wrote the screenplay for the film, so not only is the story intact, but a great deal of the dialogue is almost verbatim from the book. This is one instance where they are equal in nearly every measure. 99.9999 repeating percent of the time, the book is better than the movie.
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Let me say that this is one of the very, very few instances where I will put the movie up on par with the book. And so this book is a story about stories. In his fictional childhood, Goldman learned more about the world from the process of watching the story unfold than he did from the story itself. It's about our relationship with fiction, and with the world around us. It's about how stories can teach us lessons that only later we understand - such as how life is not fair - and how stories can change us in ways that we never expected. It's a story about a story, and the effect that a story can have on a young mind. Knowing that all of this is false certainly doesn't detract from the story. He talks about the great shock of discovering that his father had done something utterly brilliant - he had skipped the dull bits and left the exciting parts intact. He talks about trying to give the same gift to his son, who manages to make it through one chapter before giving up in exhaustion. He tells the tale of how he blossomed as a boy - going from being a sports-obsessed disappointment to a ravenous bookworm, all thanks to this book. The entire thing is a fiction, beginning to end, but Goldman sells it really well. Goldman's father may have read books to him as a child, but he never read this book to him. Morganstern, the greatest of the Florinese writers. Of course, the big gag is that there never was an original version of the book. Morganstern, was a little too dry for public consumption, as well as damaging to treasured childhood memories, so he went through it and put together this "good parts" version, and the world is a better place for it. Goldman felt that the original story, as written by the immortal S. It's one of the greatest love/action/revenge stories ever abridged by a modern author.
Don't bother with the rest of this review, you'll thank me later. If you haven't read this book, then all I can tell you is to go out, get it, and read it. Goldman died in New York City on November 16, 2018, due to complications from colon cancer and pneumonia. 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 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 then adapted his novel The Princess Bride to the screen, which marked his re-entry into screenwriting.
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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"). Several of his novels he later used as the foundation for his screenplays. William Goldman had published five novels and had three plays produced on Broadway before he began to write screenplays. 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.
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