> For children or not, I certainly won't hold The Princess Bride up as example of greatness. Of course. > I would claim that the fact that it works as a send-

> For children or not, I certainly won't hold The Princess Bride up as example of greatness. Of course. > I would claim that the fact that it works as a send-up of a genre, including the alleged abridgement, is illustrative of something. But it's a send-up of fairy tales -- not great fiction.