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Title: Adventure at its best
Review: The story in this book is excellent, one of the best in its genre. However, I don't like the way that the author toys with the readers regarding the supposed origins of the book. Clearly Goldman wrote this book himself, not the misterious Morgenstern, and it's not at all abridged.Anyone living in Europe knows that Florine and Guilder are not countries, but Dutch currency. It was fun at first, but after hundreds of pages of clear lies, I got fed up with it. He goes way too far, involving Stephen King as supposed abridger for the followup, and lawyers suing him for profeting on the non-existant Morgensterns work and so on.If he would have left out the abridgement parts this would clearly have become a classic book, and I would have given it a 5 star rating.Buy it - read it, but skip all the abridgement comments.
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