Yes, The Princess Bride the book is not as good as The Princess Bride the movie. William Goldman was a little sad, and perhaps a little weary, when he wrote it. Keeping that out of the movie was a smart call. But it’s such a good book, nonetheless. It’s unfair to judge it by its cinematic version.
And so, adieu to Anno Dracula: One Thousand Monsters.
I love that the film to the approach of a Grandfather reading the book to his Grandson. A convenient excuse for all the adaptations needed.
I like both, and not to get too hipstery snob pretentious but I can see the film as a very meta version of the book.
The book universe’s target audience (Goldman) loved a story, went back to the source material and found out it had been edited and abridged all to hell.
Movie viewers who subsequently read the book get the same experience.