Fairy Tales: The Princess Bride By William Goldman

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The Princess Bride is different from other fairy tales because, you have the giant, Fezzik which in all reality he is just a human with extra strength and extra size. When you look at other Fairy Tales that have giants they really don't resemble large humans and if they do they are usually ugly. I did not like how William Goldman added in his notations, most fairy tales will not have those in them. While reading the book I would get confused and have to go back before William Goldman's notations so I could understand what was going on in the book. The Princess Bride has a story that could be real if it did not have the chocolate revive, or the, R.O.U.S. Im sure there are more things in the book that are not realistic, but the book seemed

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