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Το φάντασμα της όπερας

Gaston Leroux

3.77 AVERAGE

riobhca's review against another edition

0.75

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

marina_leitora's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense

Loveable characters: Yes

Esse livro virou um dos meus favoritos principalmente pela sua escrita leve e divertida, o que foi inesperado para mim, considerando que ele tem mais de um século. Até as cenas emocionantes e medonhas possuem uma pitada de humor. É impossível não gostar e torcer por todos os personagens, mesmo que tenham razões e objetivos diferentes. Erik, o excêntrico "fantasma", Christine, a inocente heroína e Raoul, o apaixonado mocinho, são personagens muito charmosos. Os personagens secundários, geralmente bem sillies, também não ficam para trás, contribuindo muito para a riqueza do universo construído ao redor da Ópera. É realmente uma história clássica contada de forma encantadora.

riddlemethistom's review against another edition

3.75

dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Erik is really, really pitiful.

piecorn8's review against another edition

2.5

I’ve never seen the movie before so perhaps it was stupid of me to have expectations of the book BUT that being said… this book was not what i expected. I expected to dive into the relationship between Christina and the Opera Ghost and to learn how their relationship started and grew… girl tell me why neither of them ever got a single pov. Zero. Like the only time we even heard about christine and the ghost was like halfway through! and that’s another thing- i could’ve really done without the whole first half of the book. nothing even happened.

i guess i’m just disappointed bc this book had a lot of potential but kinda fell short bc the author focused more on plot and other characters than on christine and the ghost (which is confusing bc christina and the ghost ARE the plot?).

and the ending? the ghost dying was really quite abrupt and unexplained. I do like that he released christine to go marry raoul for so strong is his love that he wanted her to be happy. Like that was so cute and he is such a simp but why tf is he dead? maybe i just lack reading comprehension

anyways this book was worth the read is only to see simping be done at new levels of devotion. like what do i have to do to get a man to love me like the phantom loved christine.

acourtofbooksandsnacks's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

marmaireadsbooks's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jahlapenos's review against another edition

4.0

I think I probably enjoyed this more reading it now than I did whenever I read it in high school or junior high when I was too enthralled by Lloyd Webber's Phantom to let Leroux's stand on its own. Granted it was difficult to read without Lloyd Webber's music playing in the background and juxtaposing what I knew of it (i.e. characters, costumes, vocal inflections) onto what Leroux wrote, but there is so much more here. The Phantom isn't just the ugly father-figure in love with his pupil-daughter: he appears to be all things that frighten a staunch middle class, even extending to gender (e.g. in at least two points he is the siren that attempts to lead men to a watery grave).

Leroux's writing can at times be quite pulpy, but I'm sure this made it even more popular at the time and more readable now. It brought not only a horrific story but a look into the world of Parisian Opera; at times, it seemed that Leroux point in writing had less to do with the Phantom, Christine, and Raoul but more with the Opera building itself: the catwalks, the cellars, the stage, and the horror story itself was just dressing...the opera being performed on stage, so that we could see the performance from our box, the spine tingling chill of sitting in Box Five, which to some degree, that is what the book is - the vicarious thrill of the opera, the play, something we can experience from the safety of an enclosed space.