The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel by Gaston Leroux Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel
Book Review: The first book that made me cry
Summary: 5 Stars
I had been wanting to read this book for many years and I am so glad I have. It is a masterpiece! It has a wonderful mixture of morbidity & macarbre and heart breaking emotions. Which ended up with me crying.
Set in the late 1800's in a real Opera house in Paris. It is a beautiful Gothic Horror/Romantic tragedy. The Phantom, Erik is a severly deformed man who lives in the catacombes of the opera and has fallen in love with a soprano called Christine. Christine on the other hand has fallen in love with her childhood friend Raoul, sounds pretty tacky but it really isn't.
Although Erik is portrayed as the anti-hero (he goes around commiting murders and causing mayhem) it is impossible to not feel sorry for him. When his face is revealed there is such detail put into his description in very little words so it doesn't drown on.
The first few chapters are pretty dull but the book does pick up.....alot. The chapters are short so it's easy to read if you have a low attention span like I do. Although there have been many adaptations of the book in films, theatre etc nothing compares to the original novel.....Nothing.
Book Review: Not what I expected, but still good
Summary: 4 Stars
I have seen both the film (2004) and the stage version of Phantom of the Opera and loved it so the next logical step was to read the book from which the story came...It is not what I expected. I know that something would have to be changed for the stage and film but the extent to which they were suprised me...for example, there are characters I had never heard of! That being said I still loved the book, am glad I bought it and will read to again...mulitple times. The phantom is protrayed differently in the book but I liked this, maybe more than in the film on on stage, and the end still had the same impact it usually does...
Overall, I would definatly recommend this book to people who already liked THe Phantom of the Opera and to anyone else!