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William Goldman: The princess bride (2003, Ballantine Books)

The Princess Bride is a timeless tale that pits country against country, good against evil, …

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So yeah, I pretty much loved this.

I've loved the movie for a long time, of course. And the book is very faithful to... I mean the other way around. Sure, there are some slight differences in the actual story; Westley is a little more of an anti-hero (I could never buy that the movie's Westley was really [spoiler]a pillaging, murderous pirate[/spoiler]; I can just about buy it about the novel's version), there's some extra backstory, one or two extra scenes... but on a whole, it's the exact same story, even the exact same dialogue (though Goldman's characters tend to take their own story slightly more seriously than Reiner's). Apart from that, though, the only major change is the framing device; instead of having a kindly old grandfather tell it to his grandson, it's "William Goldman" telling us the story his father (barely literate in English) told him. And that's …

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Märk:

Vanja (fullständigt NAMN: Brilars Vanja Essre Två) kommer med TÅG till STADEN Amatka, längst ut vid KANTEN av civilisationen. Hennes SYSSELSÄTTNING där är att prata med MEDBORGARE för att undersöka intresset för HYGIENPRODUKTER från det något rikare Essre, där man specialiserat sig på sådant.

Hon märker Amatka: en GRUVA, en kall och gråskitig STAD bebodd av MEDBORGARE som lever på SVAMP, GRÖT och SPRIT. Där måste ju finnas EFTERFRÅGAN på HYGIENPRODUKTER. Bortom dem finns ju bara INTET, ända sedan den där gången för länge sedan då CIVILISATIONEN föll samman, SOLEN blev kall och MÄNNISKORNA fick klamra sig fast där det gick. Tack och lov för STYRELSEN som håller ihop alltihop.

(SUBSTANTIV är viktiga. Så här på andra sidan … vad som nu hände världen kan en aldrig vara försiktig nog. Alla TING är gjorda av syntetiskt MATERIAL, och om man glömmer att konstant märka dem, tala om för dem …

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Juli Zeh: Schilf (German language)

Dark Matter (German: Schilf) is a 2007 novel by the German writer Juli Zeh. It …

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Schrödinger's thriller; there both is and isn't a kidnapped child, there both is and isn't a murder, there both is and isn't a jealous drama tearing a marriage apart, there are two physicists arguing the nature of reality, there are two detectives trying to figure out not only what's happened but what happens. Zeh has her characters speaking in epigrams as usual, but she's good enough and her characters self-involved enough to make it work.

Robert Graves: I, Claudius (1989)

Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus lived from 10 B.C. to 54 A.D. Despised as a …

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I, Claudius is a bit of a slog at times, since the central conceit - a man simply writing down everything that's happened to him, or rather one long list of people to whom stuff happened while he kept his head down and his ears open - is so well done that it really reads like that and often gets bogged down in detail about political assassinations rather than what's actually going on outside the palace walls. Graves later claimed he only wrote the Claudius books for money, and it does have a certain air of being written quickly, with more thought to authenticity than to literary greatness. Plus, it made me feel I had to rewatch Caligula and I'm not sure I can ever forgive it for that.

That said, you can hardly fault Graves for sticking (largely) to historical facts, and there's no doubt it's a fascinating and …