The Princess Bride by William GoldmanMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
To start out, I am fully aware that most people love this book and give it raving reviews. And I am ok with that. I don't think you are dumb for liking this book. I am also fully aware that my taste in books not like anyone else's taste in books that I have ever met....so with that in mind, my review:
I saw the movie several years before I read the book. I was an adult. I did not like the movie, at all. So I probably shouldn't have bothered with the book in the first place. But my husband loved it, and gave it a four star review, and we were reading it for book club. So I read it, as an adult, for the first time. I have no childhood nostalgia for this story or the movie. If I had, I might have liked both better. I could see myself liking this story if I'd read it as a 10-12 year old. But as an adult, it was so mindless to me that it hurt.
I've never been a big fan of silly/ridiculous just for the sake of being silly/ridiculous. When I started I enjoyed the narrator, and thought he was really funny. But as the book dragged on and the story stayed shallow, the narrator began to get on my nerves. I actually couldn't bring myself to read the last part Buttercup's Baby, so I didn't.
I think the biggest reason I didn't like the book is because the characters are so flat. They didn't change at all throughout the book. I never attached to them, or related to them, or frankly even cared about what happened to them in the least.
So really all around, this just wasn't the book for me. No harm done though. I'll know better next time.
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