{"id":8326,"date":"2010-09-22T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=8326"},"modified":"2010-09-18T13:24:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T19:24:52","slug":"book-vs-dvd-the-princess-bride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/book-vs-dvd-the-princess-bride\/","title":{"rendered":"Book vs. DVD: The Princess Bride"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>I’m a little embarrassed to admit that until recently, I had no idea that the movie The Princess Bride<\/a><\/em><\/strong> was a book first.\u00a0 So this is one of those rare instances where I saw the movie before I read the book.\u00a0\u00a0Typically that hinders my enjoyment of the book, but I can solidly say that this wasn’t the case with The Princess Bride<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Everyone knows how the movie The Princess Bride<\/a><\/em><\/strong> goes:\u00a0 Buttercup realizes she loves the farmboy Westley just as he is about to leave\u00a0the country\u00a0to make a name and fortune for himself.\u00a0 After receiving word that he is dead, and knowing she will never love again, she agrees to marry the dreadful Prince Humperdink.\u00a0 When Buttercup is kidnapped shortly after the announcement of their engagement, the story pushes forward with adventure, romance, and many surprises and beloved characters along the way.\u00a0 It’s fun, romantic, and easily quotable.\u00a0 I know I’m not the only person who at any mention of the movie must say, “Hello.\u00a0 My name is Inigo Montoya.\u00a0 You killed my father.\u00a0 Prepare to die.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’m happy to say that even though I saw the movie first, I found the book The Princess Bride<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by William Goldman even more enjoyable.\u00a0 The movie followed the book’s plot very closely, but the book has lots of valuable extra detail and backstory that you miss out on in the movie.\u00a0 The book also included many fun little asides by the author, who wrote the book as though it’s an abridgement of a classic tale.\u00a0 His little notes peppered in about what parts were so dreadful he had to cut them out and what happened\u00a0when the original tale was read to him as a child\u00a0made the book such a\u00a0fun read that I couldn’t put it down.\u00a0 If you’re looking for a book with a little bit of everything (humor, adventure, sword fights, romance, and so much more), I highly recommend checking out this book and then watching the very faithful film adaptation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a little embarrassed to admit that until recently, I had no idea that the movie The Princess Bride was a book first.\u00a0 So this is one of those rare instances where I saw the movie before I read the book.\u00a0\u00a0Typically that hinders my enjoyment of the book, but I[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[475,1347,165,85,408],"class_list":["post-8326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-dvds","tag-adventure","tag-dvds-books-to-movies","tag-humor","tag-movies","tag-romance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2ai","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8326"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8515,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions\/8515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}