Harry Potter Và Đứa Trẻ Bị Nguyền Rủa: Phần Một Và Hai tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Anthony Morgan apmorgan — A horror story, supposedly. I'd heard the Broadway songs. I think I even watched a (very boring) movie version, but I'd never read the original story. I still haven't, since my French is not that good, but I figure I've gotten the most of it. I probably wouldn't have bothered, if I hadn't read Charlotte Vale Allen's Night Magic, which uses Leroux's story as it's inspiration. The Classics edition begins with some information on Leroux. The book certainly reflects his journalistic background. And, as with today's urban legends, the author tries to establish the veracity of the story by couching the tale as a report based on letters, memoirs, and personal interviews. As with our own scary stories, it's the possibility of truth that magnifies the intensity of the fright. Of course, being the jaded people we are today, the book isn't really all that scary. For me, the distance of the tale kept me from being caught up in the telling. In most cases, the major motion is told through another person after the fact, either Christine telling Raoul what happened to her or the Persian's tale (which I found the most compelling portion of the story). The lack of Erik's perspective throughout was disappointing. Maybe it's my own morbid curiousity, but I wanted to "see" more of him. I want to try to understand him. Perhaps, I wanted to be able to pity him. This is probably why I liked the Persian's tale, since it did reveal Erik's story, though I still had questions. Erik strikes me as quite truly mad. A genius, able to function in the world he's taken over as his own, but insane. Pitiable, perhaps, in that he is finally willing to give up Christine. In so doing, he overcomes his "monster" self. In the end, all he wanted was someone to love him. That he doesn't find that makes the story sad, not scary.