![]() ![]() More like two rivals trying for the same ladies hand, or a love triangle. ![]() While in The Phantom of the Opera they are not friends at all. The difference in Dracula is that the man is friends with Dracula first. These stories however are old enough that they might be what set that trope into motion. (Another E-book classic I’ve recently read) You have a man and a woman in love and then some “monstrous creature” come between them for the woman. The Phantom of the Opera is a love story. Maybe because it’s a masked man terrorizing people in an opera house? I also knew it was a book that fell for some reason or another on the occasional suggestion for horror Halloween reads. I knew that there’s an underground lake and a singing woman who is lured away by a masked man, who underneath the mask is not the most conventionally attractive man. Yet I knew some songs and some of the plot points. I’ve never seen the movie or the musical and didn’t until recently read the book. That’s how I am with The Phantom of the Opera. There are certain stories, especially classics, that become so ingrained in pop culture that it’s hard to avoid knowing anything about them. While I’m hurrying to read all my books I’ll sprinkle in reviews of things not in the bookcase. One is that I have this as an E-book, and the other is that I finished it before the dread of my impending deadline kicked in. You might notice that this book isn’t on my TBR bookcase. ![]()
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