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New Release: Sing Her Down by Ivy Pochoda.

In summary, I didn’t love this book, but you might. The ending of the original book was stronger without it. I did like the characters and the plot, it was the clever bits that started to annoy me! My 25th anniversary edition of the book (Bloomsbury, 1999) had an extra part at the end called ‘Buttercup’s Baby’ which I didn’t like.

There is quite often a humorous tone although nothing really laugh-out-loud. Buttercup is then kidnapped by the trio of Vizzini, Inigo and Fezzik, who are being pursued by a mysterious man in black. She has sworn never to love anyone other than Westley, the farm boy who left and was supposedly murdered by the Dread Pirate Roberts. The plot involves a beautiful girl, Buttercup, who is chosen by the odious Prince Humperdinck to be his bride. The most space is given over to the swashbuckler Inigo and his friend the giant Fezzik. Every so often he explains his choices in editing the book, encourages us to appreciate Morgenstern’s genius and even describes an added scene which was rejected and how readers should write in to receive this (non-existent) scene by post.ĭespite the title, the princess bride herself, Buttercup, does not appear much in the story. Goldman then publishes an abridged version of the book, which is what we’re reading now. Many years later, Goldman tracks down a copy for his own son and discovers that his father missed out a lot of the book, mainly the political satire and long-winded descriptions. The somewhat complicated premise is that the author’s father read a book called The Princess Bride to him, when the author was ill as a child. The book is clever, its unconventional format veering into literary fiction territory. It’s a book for adults but I suppose younger readers might enjoy it if they skip the author’s frequent interjections. First published in 1973, the main story is by the fictional author S Morgenstern with a frame narrative by William Goldman which includes a mixture of real and fictional details. It has been on my to-read list for a long time, although I’d somehow never got around to watching the film that so many people adore.

The princess bride abridged