'You never have been the brightest, I guess.' 'Don't you understand anything that's going on?.

(Originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus or ginkgoes, or later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even to this day, we say that someone is green with jealousy.) Buttercup's case rated a close fourth on the all-time list.

Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own.

Even as it was, nobody within a thousand miles wanted to mess with him. If there had been a Europe, he would have been the most powerful man in it.

Prince Humperdinck actually ran things.

What you do with it will be of more than passing interest to us all.

Anyway, here's the 'good parts' version.

He never bothered with the serious side at all.

But my father only read me the action stuff, the good parts.

The Princess Bride belonged to my father.

Slumped and squinting and halting over words, giving me Morgenstern's masterpiece as best he could.

Even today, that's how I summon back my father when the need arises.

For some reason, I test very high on forgettability. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie it does. It's not a paranoid thing I just have this habit of slipping through memories.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

otherwise perfect, glossy, and beautiful. Very tiny tear at top near spine and very slight bumping in a spots upon close examination. Does not affect readability, please see picture. There are two pages with markings that look like a error in printing. If it was read great care was taken to not damage the pages. The cult classic movie adaption by Rob Reiner recently celebrated its 30th anniversary! This is a beautiful copy of the fairly scare but sought after Science Fiction book club printing with the dust jacket art by Ruth Sanderson with Princess Buttercup sitting atop her horse.Įdition: Science Fiction Book Club Edition 1st ThusĬlean, intact, and free from marks, tears, or creases. An epic fairy tale about the true love that can span years between a farm boy and a princess named Buttercup.

The princess bride book 1973