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Summary: great!
Review: Phantom is a great book to read, it is an even better story to listen to! This tape does a great job of setting up the creepy atmosphere and all the dramatic climaxes. A must have for all phantom phans!
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Summary: phantom rules!
Review: phantom is awesome! this book is awesome! a m
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Summary: Still One of My Favorite Stories
Review: Thank God for the likes of Lon Chaney, without whom this lovely novel would most likely have disappeared into obscurity. This is the famous novel which has inspired at least nine movies, five musicals, three supplementary novels, several children's adaptations, and loads of Phan Phic and Phan Pages on the Net. And there is always talk of more on the way.This Phenomenon, at first, may appear to be as mysterious as Le Fantom himself. After all, Erik is practically treated like a minor character in a story supposedly about him. Perhaps this is the reason for all the phuss? This novel has enough gaps and closure to stimulate the imagination of the creative-minded. For those who like eventual total disclosure, they may not like this novel. The Mystery, in many ways, remains a Mystery. For the rest, it is a dream come true. Especially if they, like I, adore variety (alittle romance, alittle mystery, alittle history, alittle sci-fi, etc).
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Summary: Le Phantome de L'Opera
Review: I was forced to read this book and write a 5 page literary Critism paper on it, it looks good by the cover, but don't EVER judge a book by its cover, I hated every minute reading this book, I wouldn't recomend it to anyone
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Summary: Truly a modern thriller for the modern reader!
Review: Leroux has done an excellent job on this book. You'll like this one. Truly a great book. Leroux's best!
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Summary: A disappoinment of a "supposedly" good book
Review: My english teacher gave me this book, telling me how wonderful and how much I would like it. Well, suffice to say, she was wrong. Now, yes, I said right, English teacher. I may only be 14 years old but I've read everything from Stephen King to the Inferno by Dante Alighieri, and all I can say about this book is that it doesn't do justice to the wonderful play. The storyline skips around like a two year old playing hopscotch, and, although the French names are I'm sure essential, refering to them constantly by their three or four word name can become exhausting. All in all, this is not going to be a book I read again.
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Summary: El Perfection, a masterpiece
Review: This was an excellent book, the best I have read in a long time. Well worth the purchase price!
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Summary: An excellent biography of the O.G.'s last year.
Review: When I got this book I only knew about the play, not the book. After I read I knew lots about Erik, The Persian, and the Opera House in General. If you like the play get this book for O.G.'s Real story.
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Summary: A VERY GOOD BOOK!!!!!!
Review: I THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS A VERY GOOD BOOK. IT WAS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I EVER READ!
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Summary: An absorbing, haunting love story that was not meant to be.
Review: What I enjoyed most about this book was the simplicity of language and the direct truth of human needs. Erik was physically deformed and sickly. Mostly, he was unloved and cast out from society; he was bigger than just the Opera Ghost. He was society's shame -- a shame they felt that should be hidden and not acknowledged (either out of fear or because of it... you choose). That lack of positive acknowledgement is what makes this book so sad and frustrating. He had love to give, but it was not wanted; he was deemed a creature of horror. But it was really the general attitude of society that was the horror -- not him. The book really echoes the truth that it is what is on the inside that matters, for that is what lasts the longest, and that people should be more open-minded to the mental and physical flaws that either God or Nature or both created. Erik is a symbol not of darkness and the gothic motif, but of light and life and living. If anyone liked this book, they should read Susan Kay's Phantom; it is a good precursor to Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera.
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