To use the grandpa's description: Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles…
If I may add wizards and/or dragons.
Basically something that, like Princess Bride, is a bit tongue in cheek, but not outright meta. An old-fashioned fantasy adventure book that's also not super heavy on lore or wolrdbuilding.
So, pretty much Princess Bride, but another book.
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Eye of the Dragon by Stephen King
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson is inspired by The Princess Bride, it’s set in a different universe (the cosmere) and some thing are a little odd, but everything that needs explained for the story to make sense is, so you don’t need to get into the rest of Sanderson to understand unless you wanted too 🙂