![]() ![]() Thirteen years later, it was also made into one of the most famous young adult movies of all time. And guess what? The Goldman in the book isn't actually even the Goldman who-in the real world, where we live-wrote the book.Ĭonfusing beginnings aside, when it first came out in 1973, The Princess Bride became a quick bestseller. So what gives? Goldman made the whole thing up, and then wrote his own book to pretend like he was recovering an old classic. A quick Google search will prove that there's no such dude, and as such, no such "original" book. Things only get stranger, though, when Goldman says that the story was originally written by a dude named S. So technically, he's never read it himself. Does that make you scratch your head a bit? Here's why: Goldman's father used to read it to him when he was just a young boy. William Goldman starts The Princess Bride by telling us that it's his favorite book in the whole world… even though he's never read it. ![]()
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