I haven’t quite decided what to make of this book. For a story so
deceptively simple, the more I think about it, the more complex it becomes.

On the one hand you can read it as a very simple children’s fairy tale with
giants and good guys and pirates and bad guys and, of course, The Girl Who
Need Rescuing. But Goldman then goes and sticks all those personal comments
in about himself and the original manuscript and his first experience of the
story and things just get more and more murky. And interesting.

I have to read it again when I have time to think about it more as I’m
reading and not just to get the plot down. In the meantime, if anyone cares
to enlighten me on what to look for, I would be appreciative.