William Goldman – Cannonball Read 17

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The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway by William Goldman

May 27, 2025 by jeverett15 1 Comment

William Goldman is a writer I greatly enjoy no matter the format. His novels, like Marathon Man and The Princess Bride, are sharp and funny, and his non-fiction books about his experiences in Hollywood are perceptive and appealingly acid-tongued. I’ve been circling The Season, Goldman’s look at the inner workings of Broadway, for a long time. Goldman spent the 1967-68 theater season following every new play that opened on Broadway, and even a few that didn’t. He wanted to know how the industry worked, and […]

Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love.

The Princess Bride, S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman

August 18, 2024 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR16 BINGO: Rings, because “Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam.” The Princess Bride has been on my TBR list for a long time, mostly to satisfy my curiosity about the source material that led to the creation of one of the most beloved movies of the 1980s, not to mention one of my personal top 5. I was surprised to discover that many of the most memorable lines of dialogue come directly from the book (“You keep using that word. I don’t think it […]

“Inconceivable!” “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman

April 17, 2024 by cheerbrarian 7 Comments

I have been a huuuuge fan of The Princess Bride movie ever since I saw it when I was in high school. Romance, humor, swordfighting, it has EVERYTHING ou could want! I didn’t even know it was a book, and once I learned that I swore it off because how could the book live up to my expectations? Well after using it as a recommendation on my advice/book podcast I had to read it and I’m stunned to tell you that the book managed to […]

Ten mostly good fiction books

Normal people by Sally Rooney

Conversations with friends by Sally Rooney

The amateur marriage by Anne Tyler

The pull of the stars by Emma Donoghue

Middle England by Jonathan Coe

Holes by Louis Sachar

The princess bride by William Goldman

The legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

May 11, 2021 by The Book Omnivore 2 Comments

Normal people by Sally Rooney I’d watched the series before I read the book and yet the series didn’t put me off reading it. I suffered through it, just as I suffered through this book about Marianne and Connell. Two kids who go to the same school, and then later on to the same university, their lives entwined. We witness their strange dance as they struggle to communicate plainly with each other and fail again and again. Marianne is a broken person. Connell is sort […]

Bremen left the hospital and his dying wife and drove east to the sea.

The Hollow Man by Dan Simmons

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Art of Literature by Arthur Schopenhauer

November 12, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Hollow Man – 3/5 Stars This is not the basis of the Kevin Bacon movie, and we’re all the better for it. This book, which I think is filled with some issues throughout, is very compelling and interesting, even if I think the driving narrative behind it is relatively weak over all. Jeremy Bremen is a telepath and a mathematician, and we find him on the worst day of his life, as his wife has finally succumbed to the cancer that had been killing […]

Thank you, Alexis!

December 16, 2018 by HasenKlub 2 Comments

The first time I read The Princess Bride was in 2010 as an ebook on a small 1st generation smartphone during my down time at work. I had grown up with the movie, and as with most people, could quote it in its entirety. This remains one of the few instances where I truly, honestly love both the book and the movie equally as separate entities and as complementary enhancers of each other. I can’t wait to re-read this favorite of mine. But instead of small […]

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