SGA SQUEE!

[mycenae]

OMG! Sheppard just quoted my favorite quote from The Princess Bride! The book, not the movie! I am so excited I actually just paused the show (thank you, DVR, my new dear friend) and turned on my computer JUST TO NOTE THIS. It's a great William Goldman line, "Life's not fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all." Great. Love it. When I was 13

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[amykay73]

It's been forever since I read the book, and a while but more recently since I watched the movie. I do remember the 'Life's not fair' part (for some reason I think it was uttered by Humperdink, or maybe Mad Max?) but I don't remember the last half of the saying.

Hmmm...I might need to bust it out too. It's such a great movie that I don't need prodding to watch it again.

[jeanniedean]

OKAY! My favorite book, EVER. I found The Princess Bride (I was 12, too!) at a sci-fi convention, about 4 years before the movie. (The reason I wanted to buy it was the tag line on the cover: "What happens when the most beautiful woman in the world marries the Prince and he turns out to be a son-of-a-bitch

[mycenae]

I clearly need to read the book again as I only vaguely recall most of what you're talking about. (I'm getting a lot of, "Yeah, that was awesome!" from my brain.) I know I saw the movie first, because I was little and then when I was older my mom made me read the book. The book's really a love letter to adventure stories, and what it's like to be a kid caught up in one. Plus, it created my lifelong love of frame narratives. Wurthering Heights tried to destroy that, but it could not surmount the Goldman. (Amusingly, I once saw someone online trying to inform people that Goldman was just an abridger and not the author. I wonder how you can read an entire book and yet completely miss its entire conceit.)

That tagline is great, and it's on the copy I inherited from my mom, but (looking at amazon.com) it seems they took it off newer editions.

[jeanniedean]

Heeajjajjha ha. Yes. Well, at the time I read the book I ALSO really thought there was an S. Morganstern. In fact, I went to my middle-school library and looked him up in the dewey decimal so I could read more of his work.

(I like to think it was because I was 12.) Anyway, when my librarian told me there was no such author, I caught on. Did some research on early Europe and WHOA! No such place as Florin.
I remember thinking, "Ah. Goldman. Genius."....
he remains my favorite writer.

[therrin]

What show is SGA?

[mycenae]

Stargate Atlantis. It's just silly fluff stuff, but it's fun to watch.