This is the screenplay of the movie 'The Ghost and The Darkness'.
This should be a book referred for one of the best screenplays written.All the screenplay writers and students who are aspiring to become one should include this book in their regular study.

I'm sure the book is just as good! The movie is witty, charming, and has the most handsome men! The movie belongs on the "keeper" shelf for years to come!

This book is extremely well written and incredibly insightful to what really going is on in the world in terms of the political agenda of the US and battle for world supremacy.
Two complex subjects (global warming and US/Chinese relationships)are handled with a unique clarifying simplicity and an intricate, spell-binding political perspective that allows the reader to understand and visualize the tough issues.
The book just seems to flow and keeps one captivated. It's hard to put down. Be prepared to spend an hour in the read, and afterwards, to wonder about what our leaders are really up to.
This book is an experience that one will never forget.

With federal spending on academic institutions running about 15 billion dollars a year (including a variety of projects to improve human health, our understanding of the natural world, education, and the national defense), concerned and involved citizens will appreciate the collaborative efforts of Goldman and Williams in their investigative survey report published and available as Paying For University Research Facilities And Administration. Highly recommended for both professionals and the non-specialist general reader, this report is informative, documented, and provides up-to-date quantitative and qualitative data on indirect and overhead costs encompassing both facilities and administrative education institutional costs that are federally reimbursed.

The book talks about the 1987 baseball, football and basketball seasons in New York. Lupica's sections are interesting analyses of the various suplots that make up a season and Goldman provides some hilarious "Fan Notes," which, in my opnion, make the book a keeper. If you are a New York sports fan, expecially a baseball one, give this book a try.

This book by the author of "The Princess Bride" is a heart warming children's story about a girl and her security blanket. It is sweet and will make you ache for Mr.Goldman to write another children's book! I loved it.

Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles. GREAT LITERATURE.

There's not a whole lot that's not in this novel. It succeeds at being maybe the funniest, most exciting, and satisfying stories yet written. Plus, the novel contains startling depth.

The writing of the novel is so superb. The prose is smooth and light. It is really conversational, and word-play abounds. The novel also (as the Amazon review pointed out) serves as a satire of adventure and fantasy novels of the past and comments on the differences between fantasy and reality. The structure of the novel (with the hilarious first chapter, the flashbacks, and the author-commentary) serves to frame those bits of insight Goldman is trying to get across. Consider the line "Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all." There's a lot in those words, and throughout the story, Goldman hammers home real truths about the nature of pain, death, and grief. And yet paradoxically, out of those truths The Princess Bride emerges as a story to give its reader reaffirmation in the greatness of life.

As you may can tell, The Princess Bride is my favorite novel. I've read it numerous times, and each time I read it, the book is better. I know that everybody watches the movie, and yes, the movie is great. Even a masterpiece. But the novel goes far beyond that. Read it.

This is the best book and movie I have ever read or seen. I, like William Goldman, like to imangine that I wrote it, and came up with the funny, sad, and cunning characters. Buttercup - The most beautiful woman in the world, Westly - Buttercup's true love, the poor and perfect farmboy, Prince Humperdinck - The evil Prince of Florin, who plans to make Buttercup his bride, Vizzini - The Sicilian who is hired to kill Buttercup, Inigo - A swordsman determined to find the six fingered man who killed his father, Fezzik - A gentle, rhyming giant, and every one else in between. Of course, the hero does die, and the heroine gets married to the bad guy, but in the end, everything turns out okay, because, as Buttercup says, "The bonds of love cannot be broken, not with a thousand swords." For anyone who loves adventure, comedy, and finding your one true love, this book is for you. I would recommend it to everybody!

And I'm taking this book with me when I go! I was a huge fan of the movie for years, before I came across the novel, and now my favorite film is far and away my favorite book as well.

(Unfortunately, I gave my blue copy to a guy that turned out to be a real jerk...but that's a different story all together...)

This fairy-tale is the perfect blend of romance, farce, adventure, fantasy, humor and character development. Indescribably wondermous.

I beg you in the name of all sacred books, *PLEASE* get yourself a copy of this book! Read it to yourself, read it to your significant other, read it to your children, read it to shut-ins, read it to strangers on the street! It doesn't matter...just read it! Share the joy that *is* the Princess Bride. Share the joy of Westley and Buttercup and Inigo and Fezzik and Vizzini and Prince Humperdink and Count Rugen and the Fire Swamp and Miracle Max and Valerie and the white horses and the Pit of Despair...

This is what people mean when they talk about wonderful stories. And after all, what girl isn't looking for her Farm Boy to simply answer "As you wish."?

Writing screenplays can be a thankless task; producers, directors, and actors all have their own agendas and many are quite willing to sack the writer at the earliest opportunity in order to further those agendas. The salary can be nice, for sure, but you have to wonder sometimes why writers put up with it. Adventures in the Screen Trade will certainly have you asking that question more than once, but it also helps you get inside a writer's head and understand the rewards.

William Goldman wrote Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Princess Bride (both the book and the screenplay), and a ton of other books and screenplays. There's plenty of humor in Adventures, although not of the absurd type found in Princess Bride; it's more of a light-hearted, can-you-believe-this tone that you'd expect to hear from someone who is supposed to give a lecture but decides he wants to drop the pretense and have an informal conversation with the audience.

The book opens with Goldman's analysis of the various elements of the film industry. The heart of the book, though, is probably the middle two sections. Goldman discusses his own adventures in the trade, and devotes at least a chapter to most of the films on which he worked from 1965 to 1979. He talks about the problems he encountered trying to find the "spine" of the stories, the structure that would let him transform an idea into a blueprint for a movie. He discusses the negotiations that tried to navigate through all those agendas - and sometimes succeeded; what connected with an audience and what didn't; and the small thrills that can be a part of the moviemaking process, like Sir Lawrence Olivier asking him if it was OK to rearrange a few words of dialogue in Marathon Man. There is some fairly juicy behind-the-scenes gossip here, but Goldman doesn't come off as vindictive; he's often just as critical of himself as he is of anyone else, and he seems to understand how people with the best of intentions can still wind up making each other's lives difficult.

He also dissects the screenplay to Butch Cassidy - reprinted here in its entirety - in great detail. Both the dissection and the screenplay itself are tremendously useful to anyone who really wants to understand the screenwriting process, even though I'm fairly certain these days that very few people use quite the format that Goldman does. The final section of the book is another boon to those interested in the guts of screenwriting. Goldman takes one of his old short stories, transforms it into a short screenplay, and then gets feedback on the script from top Hollywood professionals in a number of disciplines. It gives an added perspective to the look behind the curtain of filmmaking and balances the memoir elements of the book quite well.

I've reread this book at least five times, and I still enjoy it thoroughly. That I've learned anything is a considerable bonus. For education or enjoyment, you can't beat this book.

Like screenwriter William Goldman, I love movies. I love everything about them -- from their scores (especially those by John Williams or James Horner) to the actors (particularly Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Kevin Spacey and Cary Grant) to the directors (Shyamalan, Cameron, Welles and Reiner) to the screenwriters (Mamet, Shyamalan and, of course, William Goldman).

Goldman's book "Adventures in the Screen Trade" is one of the best books I've read in years. It is chock-full of fascinating anecdotes...crisp, witty, honest writing...and enough "dirt" on Hollywood to keep a half dozen gossip columnists busy at their keyboards for days.

So well-written and fun is Goldman's book that I think even if I wasn't a budding screenwriter and avid movie-goer, I still would have found his peek behind the scenes in Hollywood to be an engrossing read.

But for me, a true film nut, this book is indispensable. It contains plenty of tips on how to write screenplays, sure, but the most important lesson I learned from Goldman's book is that Hollywood is a brutal, fickle and cutthroat place to do business and that I'd best develop a thick skin if I'm going to send my screenplays there.

Since reading Goldman's book, I noticed many of the movies I've enjoyed over the years have been written by him -- including Princess Bride (one of my all-time favorites), Magic, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Misery and even the just-released Jurassic Park 3!

"Adventures in the Screen Trade" is a superb book. I highly recommend it.

I have read a lot of books about screenwriting, filmmaking, and related topics. I learned more in Goldman's book than in most of those other books put together, and it was so wildly interesting and entertaining that I couldn't tear myself away.

Goldman is alternately self-congratulatory and self deprecating, proud and humble, excited and blase. His prose reflects his love for telling a good story with good reversals, and his screenwriting technique becomes apparent throughout the book. What also becomes apparent is Goldman's genius, and the precarious balance between success and selling out inherent in the screenwriting trade.

I learned about filmmaking in a way I never have, and got the opinion and perspective of a true veteran in the field. And, this book is a great read by a gifted author!

This book contains a general history of Goldman in Hollywood, as well as a rundown of all his scripts and the experiences he had writing them and seeing them come into maturity as films (or not). It also contains the full screenplay for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" as well as a screenplay written from one of Goldman's old short stories which is especially interesting because it comes with critiques from an art director, editor, cameraperson, and director. Intertwined within this framework is Goldman's philosophy on writing as well as dozens of lessons on how to improve as a writer.

I enjoyed this book greatly, and look forward to reading his follow-up to it, "Which Lies Did I Tell." Without a doubt, this book is required reading for ANYONE who wishes to be a screenwriter, and probably also for anyone who is remotely interested in Hollywood and the movies.

HIS NAME IS RON in my opinion is the best of all the O.J SIMPSON books that I have read. It deals with what the GOLDMAN'S went through in this case. The book I feel really shows what violent crime can do to a victim's family and then because of the defendent's fame to have that anguish played out everyday in the pubilc eye I don't know how THE GOLDMAN FAMILY did it. But as I read I felt an even greater admiration for the family and sympathy for thier loss. I would recommend this book for anyone it is moving and disturbing as well as inspiring you don't have to have a relative who was a victim of violent crime to understand it either. So all in all read HIS NAME IS RON you won't soon forget it.

I first ran across this book in one of my favorite hangouts, the Barnes and Noble bookstore in Des Moines, IA, on February 23, 1997. You may reasonably ask: "How do you know this for sure?" Well, the fact that the date was the first year anniversary of my own mother's murder kind of helped fix the date in my mind. I'd been sitting around my apartment until I felt that if I stayed there any longer, the walls were going to close in on me, so I headed out and ended up at a bookstore. Other people go to churches when they're upset---for me, it's a bookstore or a library. This book was on the shelves, and I took it down, curled up in one of the comfy chairs that B+N provides, and started to see what the Goldman family had to say. I soon found myself so choked up that I had to put the book down---and I giggled through the whole ending of the movie _Love Story._ The Goldmans remind us that every murder has victims other than the dead person---the murder hits at the families and friends of the dead person, as though the murderer had aimed at them as well. This book should be on the shelves of all victims-rights advocates.

I found this book to be a wondeful tribute to the "other" victim in the Simpson trial. It gave Ron Goldman a face, a personality and most important a life which he no longer has. His family shared their experiences of what few of us could only imagine to be a terrible and overwhelming time. The courage they showed in going to the courtroom each day, the fact their family was able to hold together through this terrible tragedy is a real boost to the human spirit. Through their words, they made Ron Goldman a real person in our eyes. The book is written with a lot of class and heartbreak. The fact that Ron and his family are the focus of this book and everything they went through was for Ron is inspiration in itself. The Goldman's wanted to make the world aware of what kind of person Ron was like and they did a magnificent job in doing that

The book was quite interesting, and kept my attention all the way through. It has some of the best dialogue I've read in a long time. The problem with it is that most of the characters are morally bankrupt jerks. The two likeable people in the story, Rudy and his grandfather, are hardly even in it. The rest of the people are really hard to care about. Aaron, Rudy's parents, Branch and his mother, Jenny and Charley, and even Walt are all portrayed as either cruel and manipulative, whiny and spoiled, or weak and masochistic. You really just don't care when something bad happens to them because they don't deserve to have anything GOOD happen. But, a lot of books are like that, so if you want is a well written novel that keeps your interest, this is definitely one of those. If you're looking for a novel with characters you'll identify with and care about, look elsewhere.

This being the first William Goldman book I read, I also believe it to be the best. Never before have read a book that had such detailed, quirky, and unique characters. There is a dedication to each character I've never again seen paralelled that makes the story an experience one could never forget. Search your local libraries and book stores for this book. It's worth it.

I looked at it, pondered over it, it seemed to call my name. At fifteen years old, in that old Woolworth building in South Mississippi, about 1965, I put in it my hands and had to have it. I knew I had to write when I read that "Aaron's eyes burned" because he read so much. I was a girl, he was a boy, a homosexual boy, but I understood him. I knew him. I also decided to become a writer of books someday, and now I am. Thank you Mr. Goldman for the very best book I've ever read. I'm buying copies for the sensitive people I love. Thank God it's in print again.
Susan Arnett