I thought it was not true to the characters I loved from the book and the musical. Most of the story is told through monologues with a minimum of dialogues and practically no narration - it is rather tell than show. SuI'm pretty sure enough people have trashed this story, so all I'm going to say is if this is what Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to his award winning hit will be based on, musical theatre is in trouble as we know it. Instead, I would recommend reading Susan Kay's "Phantom" as a far more realistic, and infinitely more moving, account of the Phantom's life.
Phantom Of Manhattan . Pierre interrogates him as if they haven't been kn'Oh my God, I'm dying. We’d love your help. Download The Phantom Manhattan as e-book. Well, this book answers that question. Frederick Forsyth - The Phantom of Manhattan. Since ALW and Forsyth collaborated in the beginning I am grateful that ALW ended up parting ways.I will say that if Forsyth's goal was to offer an outsider's observation of the events of Christine's time in America then he made a good attempt but the story's quality is not good, and here lies the irony in his bashing of Leroux's work.
From this he spun his tale. The original leads you to believe that Christine, traumatized by everything that happened, is happy to marry Raoul and retire to quiet life in the country.I was completely disappointed by this book. The set was already under construction in Hollywood, a huge timber and plaster replica of medieval Paris with Notre Dame in the foreground.Laemmle’s problem was what vehicle to offer Chaney next, before he was stolen away by a rival studio.
I heard so many terrible things about it that it actually wasn't as bad as I imagined it to be.
[And let's not forget in the book, where he threatens to [ I'd honestly have him left impotent than as the pathetic drunkard with a gambling problem he is in the musical.
Then at 40% we are treated to the detailed and IMHO superfluous infodump of a backstory of father Joe, camouflaged as a dialogue between father Joe and his ward, young Pierre de Chagny. I love the humanity that is finally expressed in a protagonist that has always been somewhat Byronic...I don't even know if a lot of people would refer to him as the protagonist, previously. I'm not entirely sure what to think of this novel still. When I went to see the production again, when it returned toAs a litte girl I had an obsession with The Phantom of the Opera. 245 pages. Pierre interrogates him as if they haven't been knowing each other for 6 years and the kid is clearly there for the sole purpose that Joe can orate his long, winding story - a rather amateurish way of filling in the reader about the character. In fact, I'd probably say it is no worse than Susan Kaye's "Phantom. If the story was fleshed out and actually read as a true novel and not as a summary then perhaps the new characters would add a richness to it that would make it bearable. Leroux had by then started to dabble in the smaller French film industry and it was through this connection that the two men met.In an otherwise desultory conversation the American film mogul mentioned to Leroux how impressed he had been by the vast Paris Opera House, still to this day the biggest in the world. Uff... not the best kind of writing. From the time I was 4 years old I could sing the Original Toronto Cast Recording Soundtrack from beginning to end (and hit the notes too)! The positives pretty much end there. Forsyth begins by saying that Leroux's novel is garbage and he misunderstood the character of the Phantom and the Persian and he got his facts wrong and blah blah blah. The president of Universal Pictures read it through in a single night.It just so happened that Carl Laemmle had both an opportunity and a problem on his mind. The Phantom of Manhattan. I'm in love with the original and the musical so I was super excited to read this. Forsyth then goes on to say that Andrew Lloyd Webber's creation is the only one that gets it right and is the only one worth paying attention to. READ ONLINE [ 4.86 MB ] Reviews It is great and fantastic.