Hi, G.D. Giant! Thank you for agreeing to participate in our Quick Questions series. Would you please tell us a little bit about yourself and how you found your way back to Cannonball Read? A little bit about me; I am an avid reader and an avid gardener. I live with the love of my life in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. He and I don’t have any kids, but we have several nephews and a couple of nieces nearby. I participated in Cannonball 9 […]
A very sweet adventure story, gorgeously packaged
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
4.5 stars Buzzword Cover Challenge 25: Celestial (there is a big moon and several stars on the cover) What if in The Princess Bride, Buttercup didn’t sit at home and mourn for Westley when he was captured by pirates, but instead went off to try to rescue him? Of course, that would mean Buttercup had any agency at all in either the novel or the film, and she really doesn’t. But if Buttercup was a young woman named Tress, from a barren and fairly desolate […]
“Inconceivable!” “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman
I have been a huuuuge fan of The Princess Bride movie ever since I saw it when I was in high school. Romance, humor, swordfighting, it has EVERYTHING ou could want! I didn’t even know it was a book, and once I learned that I swore it off because how could the book live up to my expectations? Well after using it as a recommendation on my advice/book podcast I had to read it and I’m stunned to tell you that the book managed to […]
Having Fun Storming the Castle
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes & Joe Layden
I do not think it is inconceivable that a person with the username of dreadpiratekel would end up talking about a book about The Princess Bride film. Ahem. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes & Joe Layden is a book about making a movie that was adapted from a book. The movie is, of course, The Princess Bride, and Cary Elwes is our dashing leading man in the film. Now let me say right up front, this book is charming. I have […]
Bremen left the hospital and his dying wife and drove east to the sea.
The Hollow Man by Dan Simmons
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Art of Literature by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Hollow Man – 3/5 Stars This is not the basis of the Kevin Bacon movie, and we’re all the better for it. This book, which I think is filled with some issues throughout, is very compelling and interesting, even if I think the driving narrative behind it is relatively weak over all. Jeremy Bremen is a telepath and a mathematician, and we find him on the worst day of his life, as his wife has finally succumbed to the cancer that had been killing […]
Many of you read this years ago and I am only now catching up.
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes
Just a feel good read, talking all about one of my favorite movies. I did the audio version, and it was great fun not only having Cary Elwes read it himself, but for the parts that were “oral histories” from his fellow cast and crew members, many of them read as well (Billy Crystal, Carol Kane, Rob Reiner, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest). I already knew quite a bit of behind the scenes information because I went through a period about 10-15 years ago where I […]