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Title: Stop reading this and order a copy. Now.
Review: Echoing what everyone has already said about this being one of their all-time favorite books and the reasons why (I listed "The Princess Bride" as one of my top three on my college admissions application back in 1977; they still let me in) I was always especially blown away by how Goldman didn't just make up Morgenstern and the story of his father reading to him -- he incorporated real parts of his own life and work, made up others, embellished the real with the fake....and you never ever know what the truth is. Maybe you had to read this book in the pre-ironic mid-70s for that to be a big deal, but it was for me. This book and its followup, "Marathon Man," were my literary "Revolver" and "Rubber Soul" in my late teen years. Just phenomenal.
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