It took me awhile to figure out that there was no "original" version of Princess Bride.

sic

Goldman's book mentioned a huge edit down about Buttercup's trousseau from the (fictitious) original. There are some major changes to the storyline and some fine additions in the film version.

I don't think that films have to be dumbed down, (even if some are) but frequently the qualities that make a book great would ruin a movie and vice-versa.

Like slow pacing. Compressing 600pages into two hours is hard. I mean, the audio boook of Sourcery (for a random example) is 7+ hours. Which is too long for a movie. And that is not an overly thick book.

Hmm.... I must race it at some stage....

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

I'd really like to see Edgar Wright & Simon Pegg tackle this project, with Jessica Hynes playing Thursday.