This starts off pretty well, even though it's a sort of detective story about a ghost. Leroux appears to have a bit of a sense of humour about the dubiousness of the whole enterprise. As it goes on, it kind of gets a little out of hand, though I don't really know if that's partly the fault of the ...
The Phantom of the Opera was published in serial in 1909-1910 by a French magazine, although nowadays the novel is probably more famous as the basis of Andrew Lloyd Webber's megamusical of the same name which has run for nearly 25 years in the West End, and over 20 on Broadway. It was the musical th...
I enjoyed this novel enough. I like gothic novels though. I found Raoul to be a fool (not quite sure if he is an idiot or not) and not that interesting. Erik was an obsessive psycho, but interesting to read. Christine, I wanted to hear from her perspective- I both liked and disliked her. I would be ...
this was fun, well written, and engaging. and a thousand times better and less offensive than the musical production. all of the romanticizing of stalking that the musical does is gone here - he's described as a monster, and while some characters have compassion for him, that's because it's realis...
Ok, the reason why I had picked up this book was because I had both seen the movie and watched an opera performed by the Opera Company in Ottawa, and let me tell you the book was just as good. There were, of course, some parts I found confusing but I think simply because this was written in a differ...
Allow me to tell you a bit of my history with Phantom, because when I was rereading this, I realized that this story has repeatedly shown up in various forms for me. My very first introduction to the Phantom of the Opera properly (aside from various pop culture references) was a class trip to Toront...
Here's one case where the movie was 100 times better than the book. It's no wonder that Leroux sold very few of these books during his lifetime because, quite frankly, the book was awful. The story idea itself, though, is interesting. Therefore, it's no wonder that it made it to the movies. In the n...
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