Talk:The Princess Bride (novel)

message: This article about a book is strangely silent about what the story is. I suspect it might be a result of splitting an article into two, for the novel and the film, but if the primary use of the title "The Princess Bride" is going to be about the novel, it really should at least summarize the story. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:15, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a little request to the article. Chipmunk01 18:29, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I updated the main bulk of the article.  Seems it more properly described the film than the book when a lot of the main description was written (nothing on 'The Zoo of Death', a key part of the book - which is telling). I also provided a plot summation of 'Buttercup's Baby', or at least the sample chapter, as well as some references (including a free online Google Books version of the 30th Anniversary Edition). --Jzyehoshua (talk) 11:14, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone has undone your work, I think, because the current summary tells ONLY the plot of the film, leaving out everything related to the frame story about Goldman's supposed son and childhood and how they interact with the story, leaving out the Zoo of Death, etc., etc. The article on the book should not be interchangeable with the film, for any book with a film version. This is just wrong. Lawikitejana (talk) 05:48, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Zoo of Death is still in there.  I seem to have missed when the "reading to his son" angle got dropped though.  I'll dig through the history this week and see if I can spot when this got altered.  Millahnna (mouse)talk 10:32, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  And the story is... what? 

message: :Among other points, you may want to consult the Errol Flynn and Swashbuckler articles as you consider the portrayal of "The Man in Black". But I wouldn't say that the story is principally a satire; I find it hard to classify, living as it does in a world between fantasy, satire, romantic comedy, and adventure.
:Atlant 13:14, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Actually part of the point is that it isn't a satire. The Morganstern was supposedly a satire of Florinese high society, but Goldman just went and translated the fun bits. Yes it's tongu-in-cheek, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's satirical; if anything it rather fawns over the concepts of love and adventure. Chris Cunningham 11:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it is, it SATIRIZES the idea of love and adventure.  The fact that it doesn't have a true happy ending and that while Westley and Buttercup claim to love each other so much but do so only for very surface reasons pokes fun at fairy tale conventions.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.248.86.136 (talk) 11:38, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Satire?

message: I own the 25th anniversary edition. It has the bit about Carly and the first chapter of the sequel. How can this possibly need a citation? It's right there in the book if you want to check it. 213.249.135.41 16:11, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking stuff up is why you provide citations.  How can you possibly think that it doesn't need one?  Goldfritha 00:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Citation needed"? 

message: Hey, I have actually never read the book, but I saw the movie. I have a question about Inigo. He is a hispanic man, yes? In compleate ignorance of how Mr. Goldman spelt the name, I believe there are a few accients missing in the article, and I didn't want to correct them and be wrong, so I am asking a question on this instead. The name Inigo, is Basq, the group of individuals in Northern Spain (where I believe he is from), and is the Basq version of Ignatius. Now in Spanish and in Basq, the name has an ñ where the n is, and I was wondering if Inigo is from Spain, is his same spelled Inigo or Iñigo. Sorry if I come across as rude or arrogant, but I am infact both Cuban and Basq, and was merely trying to clarify something. Anyone know? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.32.232.14 (talk • contribs) 19:56, July 12, 2007
:Inigo is from Spain, I think a town may be mentioned in the book (since it has a lot more detail about his father the swordmaker).  The book, however, has no tilde over the "n" in his name, so adding them to the article is out of place.  Someone made the replacement to the movie credits, and I changed it back after consulting both the movie's credits and the book. --GargoyleMT 13:03, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: IMO, keeping the misspelling verbatim as it appears in the book and movie credits is okay so long as the article clearly mentions it is a misspelling (and a very painful one to see from a Spanish-speaker perspective, believe me), due to English-speakers' inability or lack of care to represent the appropriate diacritics of Spanish orthography. Many of Luis Buñuel's films produced in France credit him as Luis Bunuel (sic) in very big letters, an obvious misspelling due to the unavailability of letter ñ in French typographies. If Wikipedia ever credits those films to "Luis Bunuel" it should clearly follow the misspelling at least with a (sic) warning. Same for the misspelling of the Spanish name Íñigo Montoya from the part of a careless English-speaking writer/publisher. 213.37.6.23 (talk) 18:30, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The name as it appears in the book is not a "misspelling", it's a name. Names can be spelled any way. Goldman chose to spell the character's name Inigo, not Iñigo. Just because a name doesn't conform to what is common, popular, or standard in a culture doesn't make it misspelled. Perhaps a note that "Inigo" is a non-standard spelling would be appropriate, but it is not appropriate to say it's misspelled. Applejuicefool (talk) 19:34, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: For example, L.A. Story has a character named "SanDeE*". This is not misspelled, even though it's a non-standard spelling. Applejuicefool (talk) 19:43, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Has Goldman stated somewhere that the 'Inigo' spelling is an active choice of a non-standard spelling and not a common misspelling of a common name in a foreign language due to limitations on the keyboard of his typewriter to represent signs of such foreign language?. In the SanDeE* case is clearly evident, but it's not so clear with Inigo. 89.7.28.82 (talk) 16:39, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inigo Montoya 

message: Any reason why he uses the names of old currencies for the warring countries? Arthurian Legend 21:23, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Florin and Guilder 

message: This article has a grand total of two citations. Considering the claims it makes, this is surely unacceptable.Thedarkfourth (talk) 08:54, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: http://xkcd.com/549/  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.131.48.66 (talk) 20:10, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  XKCD 

message: It's kind of a long list; maybe trim it down to a couple of the true legendary greats, such as Cervantes and P.D.Q. Bach?--NapoliRoma (talk) 01:05, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canonical list of every author, composer, and cartoonist who ever made up a backstory for their work? 

message: The bottom three entries -- downloadable game, card game, and Inigo portraits -- in the external links section look more like for-profit sites selling Princess Bride-related paraphernalia.  I plan to delete them unless someone has a reason why I shouldn't. --MARQUIS111 (talk) 18:11, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertisements in the external links section? 

message: Could we get a section called "Reception"? (You guys know what should be in it.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.80.135.95 (talk) 14:29, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Section 

message: I'm appalled that this article, as currently written, gives credit to Goldman only. Goldman did a great job parsing out all the best parts...I myself when I had the unabridged version when I was a teanager could NOT make it through, after reading Goldman's version some 3 times (and 5 years full before the movie came out).
S. Morgenstern lived, and wrote this book. This article is giving horribly false information to the masses and needs to be changed!
- April Pierson-Drake
april@aprilp.com  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.112.2.150 (talk) 18:04, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  S. Morgenstern is NOT ficticious! 

message: Miracle Max was also a nickname of Dr. Max Jacobson.
I wonder if the choice of the character's name was inspired by the real person (though the real person administered "miracle injections" rather than "miracle pills").
Hadaso (talk) 08:28, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who is the real Miracle Max? 

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message: Hello! I'm new here and noticed that the "Context" section could use more citations, although I agree with it's overall content. I plan to add some citations and links to the Wikipedia pages for the appropriate literary techniques (hopefully in the next couple of days). This may require a bit of editing of the verbiage of the section, too, to make sure it matches and is supported by the citations. But like I said, I think the previous editor's explanation of the frame story is fairly clear. Prehending (talk) 01:21, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding Citations and Links to the "Context" Section 

message: In the novel, the just-kidnapped Buttercup jumps into the Florin Channel, not a lake, where there are sharks, not shrieking eels. The movie has the shrieking eels. I'm not sure I know how to properly edit or cite this, but feel this would warrant a correction. Obesefrogs (talk) 05:49, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shrieking eels are not in the novel