Found this strategy as a plotline in a rather dark (and at times violent) book I read last month. The heroine, a 19 năm old student, sidesteps a reality that would drive her to insanity and suicide bởi escaping every so often into the world of her favourite book – The Princess Bride. What troubled me for a while with this strategy was that despite the girl facing a monumental fight to survive, she chose to focus on the character of Inigo Montoya, effectively become a modern ngày version of him. It was clear to me that she should have picked Westley aka Dread Pirate Roberts aka The Man in Black...

((This is, in all honesty, my yêu thích part. If bạn like this, I'll put up thêm excerpts from the book. If bạn don't like this, too bad. I'll still post excerpts. Remember, life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.))


Vizzini was waiting for him.
Indeed, he had set out a little picnic spread. From the knapsack that he always carried, he had taken a small handkerchief and on it he had placed two wine goblets. In the center was a small leather wine holder and, beside it, some cheese and some apples. The spot could not have been lovelier: a high point of the mountain path with...