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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
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January 12, 2018
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April 1, 2018
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What Members Thought

Jessica Andersen
I read this book as part of a reading group here on Goodreads, it also fits the Celebrity Memoir prompt for the Read Harder challenge.

I love The Princess Bride. I have seen it many many times, I have made my boys watch it. When I first saw this book, I honestly wasn't that interested. But a reading group I belong to here picked it as their read for the first part of this year, so I read it. I loved this book possibly as much as I loved the movie. You feel like you're sitting down for a chat wit
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Lindsay
Dec 27, 2014 rated it really liked it
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I really love the movie “The Princess Bride”. I’ve loved it as long as I can remember. Don’t even know how many times I’ve seen it.

In grade 12 I was browsing through the books in my school library and discovered the book version of The Princess Bride. I was so excited! For some reason it had never occurred to me that there would have been a book version of my favorite movie. After I’d checked it out of the library 4 times, I figured it was about time to b
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Julie
Oct 13, 2014 rated it it was amazing
My rating on this book is probably somewhat biased, based on my love of The Princess Bride, and the fact that the audio book was narrated by Cary Elwes and many of the actors and actresses that were in the film.

Is this the best book ever written? No, not quite. Is it something I want to re-read immediately? No, not necessarily. On those questions alone it probably doesn't deserve a 5-star rating, but I really enjoyed the stories and I truly love the movie, so for me it was a heartwarming and ver
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Sarah
Jan 09, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 2017, orl-highschool
Spring 2017 - so fun! Definitely listen to the audio because the cast reads it.
Book of my choice
Bio/memoir
Allison
Dec 26, 2014 rated it it was ok
I gave this 2 stars mostly because it repeats so many of the stories told in the DVD extras and in the 25th and 30th editions of the book.
Ashley Randolph
Nov 06, 2014 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 2016
Elizabeth
Nov 10, 2014 marked it as to-read
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Laura
Jan 12, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: humor, nonfiction
Shanda
Apr 22, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Mandy
Jul 19, 2015 marked it as to-read
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Feb 27, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Apr 14, 2016 rated it really liked it
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Jan 25, 2018 rated it it was amazing
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Jan 12, 2018 marked it as to-read
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Jan 31, 2018 rated it liked it
Shelves: 2018
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Sep 29, 2018 rated it really liked it
Misti
Jan 24, 2018 rated it it was amazing
Kirstie Warner
Jan 28, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Amy
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Kelli
Feb 23, 2019 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Jen
Apr 17, 2018 marked it as to-read