The Phantom of the Opera

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Summary: beauty in it highest form
Review: absolutly thrilling!this book absorbs the reader into it. after finishing it in 2 days, i could see how susan kay became entranced with the story. i really did not want it to end.

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Summary: Absolutely Marvelous Tale of Love and Horror.
Review: If you have not read this book you need yo. It is absolutely enchanting. I have seen the musical, all of the movies, and anxiously await the neww versions of the movie. This book is wondefully written. Gaston Leroux was and still is in my mind a great writer. In loving memory of Gaston Leroux.

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Summary: ::Chanting:: Buy this!! Buy this!! Buy this!!
Review: This is a marvelous book that is guarenteed to please. Whoever disagrees is either a cold-hearted grinch or an unread bumpkin trying to sound impressive by bashing a creative masterpiece. There are *very* few books that are so breath-takingly beautiful, and so heart-wrenchingly sad. If you love dark thrillers, love stories, comedy, or mystery this book is for you. It's the type of book that will come alive in your hands and will stay alive in your mind long after the last page is turned. I've read this book several times and own copies of it in a few different translations. My favorite is the Bantam edition with the translation by Lowell Blair, although it's a worthwhile story no matter what the edition.

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Summary: A Surprisingly Good Book
Review: This summer, for my AP English IV class, I am forced into reading classic literature. Frightening, but true. "Phantom" was one of the books on my reading list, and I found it to be surprisingly good. It did have its boring parts, and Raoul is incredibly stupid, in his own blundering male way; not to mention Christine: who would really be that gullable? That aside, one has to love the rat catcher and the man in the hooded cape who wanders the Paris Opera, not to mention Eric's torture chamber. Leroux really gives life to the Paris Opera House and the characters who inhabit it, creating a very strange and secretive place where one can easily believe a man could hide undetected for years. I finished this book with a sigh of gratitude to the gods that it wasn't mental torture and quickly moved on to a paperback romance novel, he he. Now I have to read Earnest Hemingway. Argh.

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Summary: Phantastic!
Review: This is by far among the best books in the history of mankind! The love story is universal and heartbreaking, and in some way relates to almost everyone. Few have recaptured this story in writing. Anyone who loved or liked this book should definitely consider seeing ALW's musical and reading Susan Kay's Phantom. What more can I say? Only this: The Opera Ghost really existed. After reading this book, it becomes clear.

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Summary: Brilliant
Review: This book was filled with atmosphere and feeling and made me want to read on to find out why things were happening. One of my favourite books ever.

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Summary: a spine tingling novel
Review: I will never forget the phantom. I was facinated by the fact that he could create disturbances as a real ghost would. Practically every time I turned the page, chills were sent up my back. If people can make a movie just like the book, I bet it would be the scariest one I have ever seen, just like the book is the scariest one I have ever read. Anyone who enjoys thrills, adventure, and mystery, will definetaly enjoy this book.(paperback edition)

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Summary: MY ALL TIME FAVORITE! Yet not for everybody.
Review: I love the way this books complexity builds triumphantly as it draws toward the end, twisting you like a rubber band and at the very end snapping you free. I also like the book because not everthing is explained, leaving you to figure out things on your own. I think this book is the BEST, but not for everybody.

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Summary: This is the worst book that I have ever read
Review: This is a boring book. It is not easy for the readers to find out what was happened.

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Summary: This is one of the all-time-best books I have EVER read!
Review: Raoul knew the was something fishy about a voice behind Christine's dressing room door, especialy when he went inside her dressing room right after she left and there was no one there, but he didn't expect that it could be a Phantom. The Phantom lives under the opera, for he fears others seeing his deformed face, but he falls in love with one Christine Daae after giving her singing lessons, which hightens her status at the opera. Yet, Raoul is in love with the prima dona as well; Christine has a choice. You will not be able to put this book, which describes everything in large detail, down one second, as you follow the gripping tale of "The Phantom of the Opera". Leroux brings out his characters' personalities in a such a way that the whole story is believeable. This book could make a GREAT movie if they stayed close to the book, so that means that you ought to read this VERY VERY good book.