Chatting Books Online Day 157 . Today’s recommended book is : As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes .
As many of you know I am a huge fan of both the book and the movie The Princess Bride . That being said back in 2014 when my husband gave me a copy of this book as a gift (a year before the bookstore opened so he still gave me books back then) I was hesitant to read it . What if it was awful , what is Cary Elwes can’t write at all , what if it is some kind of sappy fan nonsense . So many possibilities, but it was a well intentioned gift so I read it . And as you have probably guessed I learned so much about the behind the scenes making of my favorite movie that I truly enjoyed it - and it was actually well written too !
There are so many tidbits to learn when reading this book . Things like injuries (that after you know about it you can clearly see in the movie ), drinking with giants , jokesters on set , the intense training in fencing Mandy Patinkin and Cary Elwes went through and so much more . And you wouldn’t think this is information you would use again but this book and movie both have such cult-like followings that you may be surprised how often you can work this info into a conversation . (Or maybe that’s just me and I am an annoying super-fan or something but either way I’m ok with it ).
We stock this book in paperback , it has 242 pages and sells for $16.99 a copy .
To purchase a copy of this book come see us Mondays - Saturdays between 10:30am and 4pm at the shop, or you can message me and we can ship a copy directly to you. Take Care, Mask Up, and Have Fun Storming the Castle !
