As You Wish

I just finished reading the Princess Bride, which is a very good book by the way. However, it fooled me. I thought that, and as it says in the beginning of the book, that it was written my S. Morgenstren and abridged by William Goldman. In the intro he told how his grandfather read it to him while he was sick (just like the movie) and that while reading his grandfather left out the boring parts. So this was the "good parts version". Goldman had notes in the book telling which parts he cut out, a quick summery of what those parts were and why he cut them. He also had bits of his life story that he experienced through out the abridgment process, he talked about his son and his wife. I thought that this was all good and true until the end. On the cover of our book it read "including the first chapter of the long lost sequel Buttercup's Baby". All well and good. I get to the intro of the sequel and Goldman starts telling why there is only one chapter. He said it was because the Morgenstren estate got involved and he ran into legal problems with them. Blah blah, Goldman wasn't allowed to abridge it so they got Stephen King to do it. I thought that this was awesome, I like Stephen King. But I have never heard of Buttercup's Baby by Stephen King so I googled it. Hahaha was I in for a surprise. It is all a lie! All of it!!! S. Morgenstren doesn't exist. Simon Morgenstren is a pseudonym. William Goldman is S. Morgenstren!! Goldman wrote the whole thing and just made it look like he abridged it. His grandfather never read it to him, he never cut anything out, he doesn't even have a son. What got me was the hits of truth he did put in, things about his screen plays (he wrote Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). The real reason why there is only one chapter of Buttercup's Baby is because he never wrote the rest. I was so surprised.