It is a cliche but I spoilt this book by first watching the movie. It is almost an
exact
adaption, but that is understandable
as the author also wrote the
screenplay. However, the book reads unusually. The basic plot is set in a
fantastical world made up of pirates, kings, queens, giants, dwarfs and master
swordsmen amongst other things. It is a fairy tale of ‘true love’ that has been
described as ‘an anti establishment satire,’ but this I cannot see. It was
throughly entertaining, comical and moveing. The backstory of the characters
has been added, including Inigos’ revenge plot, which I think is the best part of
the story. It is unusual in that it is part biography of the author. He prevents the
action by telling the reader that the book is actually an
adaption of an actual
fairy tale written by, I am assuming, a mythical author by the name of S.
Morgenstern. But that is the point. Is it or isn’t it real? You never know. And this
is frustrating and
irrelavent, it’s quaint, but irrelavent. This spoilt it for me and I
found it unnecessry. Without it, it would have been great.