“The Angel was never seen but could be heard by those who were meant to hear.”A beautifully dark exploration of obsession, unrequited love and moral questioning. The Phantom of the Opera narrates the purity and triumph of love, the captivating connection of Christine and Raoul- unbroken by any otherworldly hurdle. Both characters embody heroism, dedication. You long for their happiness, their pursuit of each other unravelling with each page. Lurking below, gracing the dimly lit halls of the oper...

Pierwsze 50 stron mi się bardzo podobało. Potem zaczął to być nudny romans, potem wręcz sensacja. Poza historią Erika, która to rzeczywiście jest bardzo smutna i przejmująca, nie znalazłam w tej książce ani ułamka czegoś, co działałoby na moją wrażliwość. A z kolei sama historia Erika gubi się kompletnie w natłoku tych absurdalnych wydarzeń po drodze. Ostatnie 100 stron zmęczyłam tak okrutnie, że nie będę wspominać tej książki miło. A szkoda :(

This was better as a musical!!!! Which I didn't even know existed until about a week ago!!

Oh Erik you simp.
Raoul you suck.
Christine you deserve better than both of these idiots.

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I'll admit that I first saw the broadway show, then the 2004 film, and read the book afterwards. The book was a fairly different animal then its other incarnations, but I enjoyed it a great deal, especially the ending, which was much different. I felt that Erik was a tragic character, but you understood his pain enough to dislike him at times, but not hate him. I also very much loved when the phantom appears at the farewell ceremony to the opera managers, towards the beginning of the book. That ...

The Phantom’s greatest tragedy in life is the fact that he came so close to gaining the heart of the girl he loved, a sense of acceptance he has wanted for an entire lifetime, but because of his scarred and damaged soul he did nothing but terrify her; ultimately, shattering the initial allure and glamour she felt in his presence. In the vein of Frankenstein and Heathcliff, Erik’s shattered visage, his ruined face, permeates his soul. Society, humanity, perceives his appearance as evil and twiste...

I fell in love with The Phantom of the Opera after watching the 2004 movie adaptation. Since then, I have wanted to read the book. I didn't know what a surprise there was in store for me. The movie was simply a love triangle between Raoul, Christine, and Erik - the "opera ghost" and nothing more. But the book is much more than that. It is a gothic horror story, quite different from the movie, and is very dark. Reading the book reversed my whole perspective of the story and its characters. The ...

Persons who are visited by the Angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind. And they cannot touch an instrument or open their mouths to sing, without producing sounds that put all other human sounds to shame. Erik, AKA The Phantom of the Opera, is Paris's Heathcliff. This book is a dark tale of a man's descent into violence and madness, and the woman who forms the obsession at the centre of his life.I should probably confess: I am a shameless lover of The Phantom of the ...

Excellent, marvelous. A phantasmagorical (ha ha!) PERFECTION. NO JOKE. This is one true House of Horrors, perhaps the best one ever orchestrated (maybe discounting Poe). Yes, EVER. The prose is so simple, so readable, that the barest of essentials are there, in all their power & glory: the haunted house, the victim-lover, the victimizer/lover, the clandestine meetings, the haunted past, the switch-over of protagonists, the uncertainty caused by one elegant overflow of optical illusions, the ...

Before we start off, let me clarify something: because I can't be bothered to create a "the Broadway stage adaptation is better" shelf, my "the movie is better" shelf will have to suffice here. The Phantom of the Opera, the show, is a giant, absurd, bombastic display of every bad misconception of theater, and is the main reason Andrew Lloyd Weber is able to fall asleep on a bed made of money every night. It's not my favorite show, is what I'm saying - in fact, I don't even really like the show, ...