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Karma_Police
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I've heard this book was rubbish, good thing I read this ol' thread before I bought it!
*sigh* I haven't found a good sequel to PotO yet...i'm still looking for one which I will buy! A...a...second hand version!....damn my cheepness...my love for money is huge!!!!
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ghostwritten
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| Polly Moopers wrote: | I should actually do the Grinch/Phantom crossover sometime...'How the Phantom stole the Promising Young Soprano'.
You've got all the sickly sweetness
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You shooould.
"Christine Lou Who was no more than twenty-two."
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Polly Moopers
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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BAHAHA!
It would turn out a better angry mob than all the other badphics.
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ghostwritten
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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OMG! Angry Whos! With flaming torches! And Dr. Seussical pitchforks!
"But this sound wasn't sad! This sound sounded...MAD!"
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Polly Moopers
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You, me. LJ or PMs. This calls for joint-writing, STAT.
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ghostwritten
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Polly Moopers wrote: | | You, me. LJ or PMs. This calls for joint-writing, STAT. |
It does. Choose your weapon, I am at your disposal!
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Polly Moopers
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Starting an LJ entry, and geting out my old tape.
Sentences have no subjects. Only phrases.
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ghostwritten
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Yavanna
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| Karma_Police wrote: | I've heard this book was rubbish, good thing I read this ol' thread before I bought it!
*sigh* I haven't found a good sequel to PotO yet...i'm still looking for one which I will buy! A...a...second hand version!....damn my cheepness...my love for money is huge!!!! |
I don't think a good published sequel exists...
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Vin
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Which should be incentive, all the more reason, for us to write one! There's plenty of brilliant ff.net material, and publishing, once you've found an editor, is possible.
Authors abound on the net, and I don't see any real reason why we haven't got a good sequel yet - published, I mean, we have plenty of excellent ones available now as text online - as we have everything we need, technically. Mocking the existing one is all well and good, but really doing something about it... Showing that you have the right to mock it by doing better - that would truly set things right. In my opinion, of course.
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ghostwritten
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Getting permissions to use the various rights involved is most of what is stopping people, I think.
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sporkish fiend
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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I picked up this book at the library yesterday.
Stats so far:
Chapters read: Foreword and 3 chapters
Number of sittings needed: 2
Times thrown across the room: 3
Times kicked: 2
Times sparfled: 4
Times raged: 9
Times outright laughed: 1
Times Erik has worn silly clothing: 2
I shall keep everyone posted.
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Skeleton Horse
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| Vin wrote: | Which should be incentive, all the more reason, for us to write one! There's plenty of brilliant ff.net material, and publishing, once you've found an editor, is possible.
Authors abound on the net, and I don't see any real reason why we haven't got a good sequel yet - published, I mean, we have plenty of excellent ones available now as text online - as we have everything we need, technically. Mocking the existing one is all well and good, but really doing something about it... Showing that you have the right to mock it by doing better - that would truly set things right. In my opinion, of course. |
I think Fraternite should be the "good published sequel".
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Silent Phantasy
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:30 am Post subject: |
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| sporkish fiend wrote: | I picked up this book at the library yesterday.
Stats so far:
Chapters read: Foreword and 3 chapters
Number of sittings needed: 2
Times thrown across the room: 3
Times kicked: 2
Times sparfled: 4
Times raged: 9
Times outright laughed: 1
Times Erik has worn silly clothing: 2
I shall keep everyone posted. |
Our hearts are with you as you undertake this grave venture. Good luck and god speed.
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ghostwritten
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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| sporkish fiend wrote: | I picked up this book at the library yesterday.
Stats so far:
Chapters read: Foreword and 3 chapters
Number of sittings needed: 2
Times thrown across the room: 3
Times kicked: 2
Times sparfled: 4
Times raged: 9
Times outright laughed: 1
Times Erik has worn silly clothing: 2
I shall keep everyone posted. |
You're a better phan than I am, sporkish fiend.
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loupe-de-sang
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| sporkish fiend wrote: | I picked up this book at the library yesterday.
Stats so far:
Chapters read: Foreword and 3 chapters
Number of sittings needed: 2
Times thrown across the room: 3
Times kicked: 2
Times sparfled: 4
Times raged: 9
Times outright laughed: 1
Times Erik has worn silly clothing: 2
I shall keep everyone posted. |
Spork! This is a suicide mission! Don't do it! Turn back, Sporky, turn back while you still can! There are other, more expendible people in the universe to test this cruel and unusual method of torture upon.
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Polly Moopers
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Sporky, you don't have to do this! YOUR PRECIOUS EYES! WE NEED THEM FOR ENFER!
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Vin
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Skeleton Horse wrote: | | I think Fraternite should be the "good published sequel". |
I agree. Gondolier's was my favorite ff.net read ever... I would recommend it to any EC shipper. And every, come to think. Truly brilliant, and I'm surprised it isn't published as of yet.
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By Candlelight
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Sooo... I just came across this thread directly AFTER reserving it at the libary. So, I am going to cancel my reservation.
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Fallen Angel Boy
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| Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:44 am Post subject: |
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There's that rumour about it being made into a musical... 
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affirmed_hope
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Tis not a rumour my dear FAB but the God awful truth.
I'm hoping there's some sort of calamity to erase all talk, tiddle and ALW scores.
*hides*
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Fallen Angel Boy
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Supreme Being NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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Chanteuse
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| Yavanna wrote: | | Karma_Police wrote: | I've heard this book was rubbish, good thing I read this ol' thread before I bought it!
*sigh* I haven't found a good sequel to PotO yet...i'm still looking for one which I will buy! A...a...second hand version!....damn my cheepness...my love for money is huge!!!! |
I don't think a good published sequel exists... |
Well, a lot of phans liked my "Letters to Erik" which has just recently come out as a published work in paperback. Give it a shot; maybe that'll fill the bill. Even Tango1 liked it. It's a Leroux-purist book, though -- no ALW influences. Details in my sig.
Anyway, I've read Phantom of Manhattan, and I have to say it wasn't *quite* as bad as I had been led to believe. Almost, but not quite. I didn't like the "money is my god" thing, and I really didn't like Erik's new assistant, but some of the rest of it I could kinda maybe see happening in a twisted way. If I squint.
I HATED the alternative history that Forsyth gave to Leroux and his work! Mme Giry as the ballet-mistress? Puh-lease! Spare me. The idea of "Leroux made mistakes" was so repugnant to me that I almost couldn't finish the book.
On the other hand, I did rather like how it ended. Ever-so-slightly Hamlet-esque, only with the villain living through the final scene.
So I'd recommend it for any phan to read, just to be able to say they've read it. Go into it expecting it to be total crap and utter tripe, and you may find yourself pleasantly surprised by one or two aspects of it. And that's all. 
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