… are when browsing the small, but respectable, selection of YA titles at the public library, you see The Princess Bride and think to yourself, ‘I’ve always been meaning to read that’. You pull it down, borrow it, and then are rewarded for your choice with passages such as this:
“…do you know the most important six words in the last thirty years in World Culture? I’ll tell you what they are. Peter Benchley came up with them when he was walking along a beach and the words were these: “What if the shark got territorial?” Because out of that came the novel Jaws, and then the movie Jaws, and nothing’s really been the same since.”
And, you know, Goldman’s point is hard to argue with.
