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 Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:18 pm
Lookie. I remembered the text size rule. whee
Moving on... I figure since everyone one in this Guild (hopefully) read The Phantom of the Opera then most people here like books in general. This is just a thread to discuss books of any genre you've read or would like to read.
I'll start off with The Books of Abarat by Clive Barker. Though they're catagorized as 'young adult' I found them to be very spifftastical. (Spifftastical is my own copyrighted word. Use it and you owe me royalties. wink ) Christopher Carrion was my favorite character and he reminded me in many ways of Erik. Maybe it's just that I'm attracted to deformed people. Is that like a fetish? I'm not quite sure... Anyway, I'm getting incredibly off track so I'll just leave and hope people respond.
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:39 am
-Claps- Bravi, Bravi, Bravi-simmi. I think it's a kind of fetish. Not that it's a bad one. I mean, look at me. I lost all my Phantom clothes. Damn hackers.
-Le Fantome de Opera.
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xx JACKTHERiiPPER Captain
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:18 am
Erik de Phantom -Claps- Bravi, Bravi, Bravi-simmi. I think it's a kind of fetish. Not that it's a bad one. I mean, look at me. I lost all my Phantom clothes. Damn hackers.
-Le Fantome de Opera.
I like my fetish though. I made my own little Erik plushie! Though... Is it considered stalking if the person is a character in a book? Because, technically I can't break into his house. Well, maybe I could. But isn't there some sort of river underneath the Opera House, no lake? I want to go see! 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:33 am
Well, you could. Because it's not just a place in a book. According to Leroux, anyways. He claims it is a true place that he truely visited, and, at some point, Erik was a true man, that he met once.
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xx JACKTHERiiPPER Captain
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:13 pm
REAL "Phans" have not only read M. Leroux's book, they have also read Susan Kay's "Phantom." (yes, that's the whole title.) as for venturing outside of anything concerning our beloved opera ghost (outside? you mean WITHOUT ERIK!? Mommy, i'm scared...) GO READ BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA!!!! MWAH! heart
And yes, there IS a lake underneath the Opera de Paris Garnier. You need a special pass to view it.
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:07 pm
yummytenor REAL "Phans" have not only read M. Leroux's book, they have also read Susan Kay's "Phantom." (yes, that's the whole title.) as for venturing outside of anything concerning our beloved opera ghost (outside? you mean WITHOUT ERIK!? Mommy, i'm scared...) GO READ BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA!!!! MWAH! heart and yes, there IS a lake underneath the Opera de Paris Garnier. You need a special pass to view it.
And personally I did not care for Dracula. Bram Stoker's writing style annoyed me until I just gave up reading it, though I did skim the last chapters that I had left just for closure.
A good author is Victor Hugo. My favorite of his is Les Miserables. Outside of European literature classics (or lit. classics in general) I enjoy Charlaine Harris's "Dead" series and Kim Harrison's own little book series. Science Fiction/Fantasy is a good category for the imaginative.
I also recommend "The Charmed Sphere" which is all about shape-mages and rather entertaining.
And sorry to hear about your hacking, EdP. Hackers are stupid.
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:05 am
yummytenor REAL "Phans" have not only read M. Leroux's book, they have also read Susan Kay's "Phantom." (yes, that's the whole title.) as for venturing outside of anything concerning our beloved opera ghost (outside? you mean WITHOUT ERIK!? Mommy, i'm scared...) GO READ BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA!!!! MWAH! heart and yes, there IS a lake underneath the Opera de Paris Garnier. You need a special pass to view it.
Also, I'm saving Phantom for my eighteenth birthday. I dunno. I'm wierd like that. But I read a few chapters previously and it just seems like an incredibly long (if well written) fanfiction.
For other Phantom texts: Terry Pratchet's Maskerade is supposed to be decent. It's in a series of discworld books so I haven't gotten up to it yet.
Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White was also pretty good. Better than ALW's musical of it, anyway.
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 10:55 pm
I read Maskerade a while back. It's a good book; very humorous. Even if read out of the Discworld series, you can still gather who the characters are and get a decent view of the world.
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:05 pm
yummytenor Mlle. Christine Daae yummytenor REAL "Phans" have not only read M. Leroux's book, they have also read Susan Kay's "Phantom." (yes, that's the whole title.) as for venturing outside of anything concerning our beloved opera ghost (outside? you mean WITHOUT ERIK!? Mommy, i'm scared...) GO READ BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA!!!! MWAH! heart and yes, there IS a lake underneath the Opera de Paris Garnier. You need a special pass to view it.
Also, I'm saving Phantom for my eighteenth birthday. I dunno. I'm wierd like that. But I read a few chapters previously and it just seems like an incredibly long (if well written) fanfiction.
For other Phantom texts: Terry Pratchet's Maskerade is supposed to be decent. It's in a series of discworld books so I haven't gotten up to it yet.
Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White was also pretty good. Better than ALW's musical of it, anyway. not to sound offended, but i'm actually a foreigner! engrish grammar is incredibly difficult for me to grasp! you really should be more careful what you say... crying it may be easy for some people, you know, but i hate this stupid language...
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 7:51 pm
are there anyother versions of the phantom of the opera book wise otehr than goaston leroux and the wome "phantom" and that is the whole title.?
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Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 8:20 pm
Utakan yummytenor REAL "Phans" have not only read M. Leroux's book, they have also read Susan Kay's "Phantom." (yes, that's the whole title.) as for venturing outside of anything concerning our beloved opera ghost (outside? you mean WITHOUT ERIK!? Mommy, i'm scared...) GO READ BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA!!!! MWAH! heart and yes, there IS a lake underneath the Opera de Paris Garnier. You need a special pass to view it.
And personally I did not care for Dracula. Bram Stoker's writing style annoyed me until I just gave up reading it, though I did skim the last chapters that I had left just for closure.
A good author is Victor Hugo. My favorite of his is Les Miserables. Outside of European literature classics (or lit. classics in general) I enjoy Charlaine Harris's "Dead" series and Kim Harrison's own little book series. Science Fiction/Fantasy is a good category for the imaginative.
I also recommend "The Charmed Sphere" which is all about shape-mages and rather entertaining.
And sorry to hear about your hacking, EdP. Hackers are stupid.
I have read Bram Stoker's Dracula- and to be completely frank, it bored the living daylights out of me. How can horror be so boring? How can Jonathan be so stupid? How come Mina doesn't stick with Dracula.......you get my point.
Furthermore, yummytenor, you seem to be unaware that Susan Kay's book is out of print, and therefore damn near impossible for those of us who have not been fans of The Phantom of the Opera for more than two years to get our hands on.
So please stop acting so superior- perhaps that was not your intention, but that is how it came off to me.
I have also read 'Maskerade', and enjoyed it very much- extremely humorous, and it lead me to read several other books by the author.
On a completely non-Phantom book subject, I like books by Libba Bray- she has written two novels, and they are very good.
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:52 am
Is it bad that I haven't read Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera yet. Well, I haven't finished it. I'm new to the whole Phan-dom thing. I just saw the 2004 movie last year and since then I've loved the Gerard Butler version of the Phantom(if I may). I like it better to call him Erik, because "The Phantom" is too formal. By the by, Happy Thanksgiving!!!
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:58 am
I just finished reading the original Leroux novel, my mama bought it and I found it smushed in my pile of romance/fantasy/manga/erotica/Shakespear on my nightstand.
I must say I enjoyed it very much, though I did giggle for Christine has many more blonde moments in the book. heart
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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:02 pm
My favorite books are:
1. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (well, of course)
2. Wicked, The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West By Gregory Maguire (very very good!)
3. Harry Potter 1,2,3,4,5 and 6
4. Pride and Prejudice
5. A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels
6. Memoirs of a Geisha
7. Zorro
MissDaae
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:24 am
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