Also, if you've never read The Princess Bride by William Goldman, it is also fabulous, albeit in a very different way (you have to read it to see what I mean). He adapted his own book for the screen and changed a good deal of stuff around through necessity. Still hilarious though.
Also worth reading/watching by Goldman: "Marathon Man" - awesome film with Dustin Hoffman, Roy Schneider and a very, very evil Lawrence Olivier. Goldman also wrote that screenplay adapted from his book, which has an excellent sequel too: "Brothers."
reading The Princess Bride was one of the greater reading experiences I ever had. I'd seen the movie enough times to recite it from start to finish but then reading the book just blew my mind. William Goldman is an amazing writer.
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