OT: Time for another thread on books? (Retorical)

[RudyHuxtable]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
The princess bride : S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure : the "good parts" version, abridged / by William Goldman

Would there be an unabridged version, or is that only humor?

Humor, my cheese eating friend. It's only the one novel, which is also the script. Goldman is one of the only writers able to get away with serving up a script in novel form and actually have it considered.

Right now I'm reading "The Dream and the Tomb," a big thick monster of a narrative about the Crusades. History book. For fun. I'm getting old.

[DarkHorse]

RudyHuxtable said:

Humor, my cheese eating friend. It's only the one novel, which is also the script. Goldman is one of the only writers able to get away with serving up a script in novel form and actually have it considered.

The novel actually came quite a few years (18 or so, I think) before it was finally made into a movie, and was not merely written as a screenplay.

In the DVD extras, there is an interview with William Goldman where he tells the story about his efforts to get the book made into a movie. Fortunately, the movie ended up following the book fairly closely, to its (and our) benefit. The book is definitely worth reading in its own right.

[Aiken]

Finished "Ilium" by D.Simmons. Not so epoch-making as his "Hyperion Songs", but still a good reading. But I'm affraid that dirty Greeks will win in a war for mankind in "Olympos". It would be a very predictible ending.