Jennifer H
posts on 11/4/2009 10:40:56 AM
I just finished the Princess Bride, and I had NO idea that the "original version" and "S. Morgenstern" were fakes!!!! In fact, during some parts I was so genuinely annoyed by Goldman's constant interruptions that I would skip over entire pages of his commentary!!! Can you believe it?! Wow, he got me goooood. It was only when I went online and googled to find out where the heck Florin is that I stummbled on the truth - too good! The sad thing is, I've been thinking the entire time that I've been reading the book that I'm going to get the original and read all about when Buttercup was being trained for royal life - hello - girls loooove that stuff! Wow I just can't believe I got so increadibly taken in. But it was pure pleasure, absolute pure pleasure to read the entire book. Absolutely loved it.
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gobatman!
posts on 4/28/2009 12:03:30 PM
So I thought Goldings book could have been written better but I never read the original. The movie is awesome though. Anyway, I have been waiting a long time for the sequel to come out, but honestly, i don't think it ever will.
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Stephanie
posts on 12/17/2008 12:13:30 PM
In the 25th aniv. version there is Buttercup's babies first chapter. I just got the 30th aniversery and he gave clues as to what else happened. Fezzik does live after jumping off the mountain and gets caught by a giant bird. ...I'm serious, it's in there lol. He said he plans to come out with it before the 50th aniversar edition. I can't imagine a story where the bad guy is a faceless man, but I still can't wait and will buy it if it ever actually comes out. Though, to me, it seems more like a running joke throughout the editions.
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lula
posts on 12/2/2008 6:55:01 AM
This has always been my favorite book. Now no longer being able to deny that Morgenstern is a fabrication of Goldmans mind since reading this board. Yes before I was in denial, because i think knowing will change how I perceive the whole story. I had just finished it, but guess i shall read it right away again. Just to see. I'm sure I'll still love it. Just what's up with Goldman's sanity that he had to work so hard to decieve his readers.
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RazzleDazzle
posts on 8/26/2008 2:34:17 PM
I first read this book oh, maybe 15 years ago, and have re-read it many times since; I love it. I am re-reading it again, and, for the first time, I wondered if S. Morgenstern was a real person; I had always assumed that he was just a wonderful character that the author created, and the the whole book was made up.
Googled S. Morgenstern this AM, discovered that truly he was a made-up character. But in reading the other posts, I saw something about the Bride's baby. I have never heard about a baby before - I wonder where that is coming from. Is there a sequel that I missed?
Curious in Seattle.....
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Pat
posts on 8/3/2008 4:56:34 PM
I just finished the book as well, and was suspicious about the reality of the countries of Florin and Guilder. I promised myself I would look it all up when I finished the book... so I did, and of course it is all fiction! I was wanting to plan a trip to the Morgenstern Museum. It was fun reading, and now that I think about it the plot was totally implausible. But I had a good read and wonder if we'll ever get to read "Buttercup's Baby".
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Lauren
posts on 7/22/2008 12:02:17 AM
I just finished The Princess Bride, looked the book up on Wikipedia, and was told that S. Morgenstern was a fake. I cant believe that I was taken for such a ride. I mean, obviously, Florin and Guilder aren't real. But the fact that the lawyer suing Goldman was Kermit Smog (as in Kermit the frog) should have totally tipped me off. Goldman makes a couple references to his home town, which is where I live and I know for a fact he grew up there, so that was probably what made me believe it was real.
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Lia
posts on 7/1/2008 9:35:03 PM
Well, like many other people I was completly convinced S. morgenstern wrote it. I was a little suspicous about the whole thing in the beginning, but as I continued I believed it more.
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Nikki
posts on 6/4/2008 2:39:11 PM
Does Buttercup's Baby actually exist, or not?
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ashley
posts on 4/22/2008 11:39:43 PM
if goldman does not come out with a new book soon, i'm going to lose my nind. is it true that there is going to be a sequal?
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meggzz
posts on 2/28/2008 2:49:02 PM
ok so i just read the princees bride and wanted to read buttercup's baby aas well but my teacher says its not or that she can't find it. is that true??? is it non-existent??? if you have any info please post it. thank you.
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The commentator maggie
posts on 2/26/2008 2:01:43 PM
hey everyone i just found out about the "s. morgenstiern is not real thing" last night & at first i was really mad, but than i was fine, anyway, William Goldman is writing a sequel as far as i'm conserned, the same website that i found out he was not real on interviewed william goldman and said he "got lucky with the princess bride & hopes to get lucky again with buttercups baby" he also said that it will come out before the 35th anniversary edition (2009). that will mean that if he does write "buttercups baby", it will be sometime within the next year
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MckeyG
posts on 1/15/2008 2:49:43 PM
Well, in truth, you would not want to read the original. It was mostly just a text book about Florin and its history. In one part, there were 62 pages just on Florin's wonderful trees. If you love to read your school's history books then you can read the original but if you like The Princess Bride then... DONT READ THE ORIGINAL!!!!!
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Madeline
posts on 1/14/2008 10:29:26 PM
I am reading the Princess Bride right now. My teacher gave it to us as an assignment. I LOVE to read, but i did not want to read it at all. i started reading it and i Love it. iT IS one of my favorite books now.
Question: Is it true that S. Morgenstern does not exist? if so i am sooo sad. I was just about to go to the library and get the original.
Thanks!!!!!!!!11
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The commentator val
posts on 1/8/2008 3:10:59 AM
I just finished the 25th anniversary edition of Mr. Goleman's "abridged" version of S. Morgensterns book "The Princess Bride" I must tell you I was absolutely taken with this book and couldn't put it down. I loved all the parts where he comes in and tells you what he's cut out and why and I was actually fooled I guess cause here I am writing after getting up at midnight (cause that's when I finished the book) to try and find the sequel; "Buttercup's Baby"
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The commentator Rachel
posts on 12/21/2007 6:33:16 AM
I guess i am not the first. I believed. I
looked. I did not find as planned. I guess you get your personal point across about "life not being fair." Good for you. I am sure glad that i never knew that until this. You are a very good writer. I hope that you are having a good laugh at those of us still in need of a hero. That, under any other circumstance would have been you. I guess you're right. It can always get worse.
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Cheese
posts on 6/20/2007 2:01:35 PM
yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay yay!
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Sarah
posts on 6/19/2007 9:22:17 PM
I have spent YEARS of my life loving this book, and even went as far to ask the reference librarian at my big 10 university about finding a copy of the Morgenstern...she must have been in on the joke, as she informed me with a completely straight face that the library did have a copy, but I could not see it as it was an antique. DUH. Still love it!!
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Princess Bride
posts on 6/19/2007 10:39:40 AM
I am the real Princess Bride I was wondering along in the forest when all of a sudden a cantaloupe jumped out at me! Aughh I screamed but nobody heard me.
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millie
posts on 6/19/2007 1:49:59 AM
oh my goodness! i just found out that basically nothing in the princess bride is real! (i know, i was a little slow at figuring that out) I am pretty disappointed, though, i was really getting into the parts that talk about Goldman going to Florin, so i did some research online...."The Princess Bride" was still an awesome read, but I'm sad that it was not some extremely old book that was written one thousand years ago
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