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William Goldman (1931–2018)

Teoksen The Princess Bride tekijä

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William Goldman was born in Highland Park, Illinois on August 12, 1931. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Oberlin College and a master's degree from Columbia University. He began his writing career in 1957 and wrote his first screenplay Masquerade in 1965. During his lifetime, he näytä lisää wrote more than 20 screenplays and over 20 novels. He wrote the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Misery, A Bridge Too Far, The Stepford Wives, and Chaplin. He adapted three screenplays from his own novels including The Princess Bride, Marathon Man, and Heat. His other novels included The Temple of Gold, No Way to Treat a Lady, Adventures in the Screen Trade, Hype and Glory, and Which Lie Did I Tell. He sometimes wrote under pseudonyms during his career including S. Morgenstern and Harry Langlaugh. He won three Lifetime Achievement Awards for Screenwriting, including the 1985 Laurel Award for Lifetime Achievement in Screenwriter. He won two Screenwriter of the Year Awards and two Academy Awards, one for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the other for All the President's Men. He also won an English Academy Award. He died from colon cancer and pneumonia on November 16, 2018 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset

The Princess Bride (1973) 24,682 kappaletta
The Princess Bride [1987 film] (1987) — Screenwriter — 1,996 kappaletta
Maratoonari (1974) 1,146 kappaletta
Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983) 1,042 kappaletta
The Silent Gondoliers (1983) 523 kappaletta
Taikuri (1976) — Tekijä — 477 kappaletta
Boys & Girls Together (1964) 226 kappaletta
Brothers (1986) 226 kappaletta
The Color of Light (1984) 192 kappaletta
The Temple of Gold (1957) 186 kappaletta
Misery [1990 film] (1990) — Screenwriter — 163 kappaletta
Tinsel (1979) 142 kappaletta
Control (1982) 139 kappaletta
Heat (1837) 120 kappaletta
Hype and Glory (1990) 95 kappaletta
Marathon Man [1976 film] (1976) — Tekijä — 86 kappaletta
Soldier in the Rain (1961) 72 kappaletta
The Thing of it is... (1967) 42 kappaletta
No Way To Treat A Lady (1964) 34 kappaletta
Father's Day (1970) 29 kappaletta
Magic [1978 film] (2006) — Screenwriter — 18 kappaletta
Wigger (1974) 17 kappaletta
The Story of A Bridge Too Far (1977) 17 kappaletta
The Great Waldo Pepper [1974 film] (1974) — Screenwriter — 15 kappaletta
Absolute Power: The Screenplay (1997) 10 kappaletta
Year of the Comet [1992 film] (1992) — Screenwriter — 3 kappaletta
Prenses Gelin (2015) 1 kappale

Associated Works

Butch ja Kid – auringonlaskun ratsastajat (1969) — Screenwriter — 379 kappaletta
The Right Stuff [1983 film] (1983) — Screenwriter — 308 kappaletta
A Bridge Too Far [1977 film] (1977) — Screenwriter — 282 kappaletta
All the President's Men [1976 film] (1976) — Screenwriter — 250 kappaletta
Maverick [1994 film] (1994) — Screenwriter — 214 kappaletta
Dreamcatcher [2003 film] (2003) — Screenwriter — 156 kappaletta
Absolute Power [1997 film] (1997) — Screenwriter — 135 kappaletta
The General's Daughter [1999 film] (1999) — Screenwriter — 99 kappaletta
Hearts in Atlantis [2001 film] (2001) — Screenwriter — 89 kappaletta
The Best of All Possible Worlds (1980) — Avustaja — 81 kappaletta
Chaplin [1992 film] (1993) — Screenwriter — 77 kappaletta
The Stepford Wives [1975 film] (1975) — Screenwriter — 62 kappaletta
Harper [1966 film] (1966) — Screenplay — 43 kappaletta
Michael Clayton: The Shooting Script (2007) — Esipuhe — 18 kappaletta
Inward Journey (1987) — Avustaja — 11 kappaletta
No Way to Treat a Lady [1968 film] (2002) — Original book — 6 kappaletta
New World Writing 17 (1960) — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta

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Joe's Book Cafe 2016 Door 18, 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (elokuu 2016)
A particular paperback edition of "Princess Bride", Name that Book (heinäkuu 2015)
Princess Bride question, Children's Fiction (helmikuu 2011)

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Cute story! Love the movie; the book is long but written well.
 
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ZL10 | 528 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 29, 2024 |
I finally did a reread of this book. and, Its one of the few times that the movie is better than the book. It may be that the book and movie, while telling the same essential story, are so different in tone, even themes.

The book has a bitter, showbiz type feeling to it, it feels like a product of what a jaded screen writer would put together if he was feeling jaded about the Hollywood Scene and the falseness of the people around him.

As for the movie, it takes the sweetness of the narrator as child with his Grandfather - while leaving out the rest of the story, a now grown man unsatisfied with his life. This isn't to say the book is all bad, I suspect if I hadn't seen known about the movie, I'd have liked it more, but the themes are just too different, and the movie is so perfect, that reading the book is a huge let down for me.… (lisätietoja)
 
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TheDivineOomba | 528 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 24, 2024 |
I read this book for Pick-a-Shelf July 2013 (adventure).

Sometimes a bit too corny for my taste, but a nice spoof on fairytales. It's 200 pages of trope-galore! It's also very cheesy. The ironic side notes from the author can get a bit annoying and the story-in-a-story really doesn't entertain all that much.

And people, stop writing reviews about the movie. This is the book. Don't say you liked the book BECAUSE you liked the movie. That's nuts. Billy Goldman was a good screen-writer. So what. This is not the movie script.
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jd7h | 528 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 18, 2024 |
Sadly I found this novel a struggle to get through. I really did not want to pick it up again and the final chapter was a major skim job as I wondered "what the heck!".
The film is a lot of fun - the book was not for me at all.
½
 
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infjsarah | 528 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 12, 2024 |

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