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Post by Opera Angel on Jul 21, 2007 12:49:04 GMT -8
I'm not really looking forward to that..with Raoul, right?
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Post by phantomphreak4life on Aug 6, 2007 9:59:00 GMT -8
Chapter 8: The Dispatch of Bernard Smith
POV: Bernard Smith (a shipping correspondent, also not important to the story)
He talks about ships coming into the harbor, blah blah blah. We learn that Christine arrives on a ship called the Lorraine.
"deemed by many to be the greatest opera soprano in the world-but dont tell Dame Nellie Melba, who is due in ten days!" Melba is another singer coming to New York.
So yeah, Mayor George B. McClellan is going to formally welcome Christine to America. People wait along the streets waiting to see the diva. Who does she think she is, Chelsea Clinton?! Anywho, everyone takes their hats off, the "Star-Spangled Banner" starts up, and Madame de Chagny makes her journey down the gangway to her first-ever contact with American soil. She is greeted by Mr. Oscar Hammerstein, the man who owns and runs the Manhattan Opera, and also convinced Christine to sail across the Atlantic to sing for them.
This makes me sick: "Behind her I could see her remarkably small and nonfussy entourage descending the gangway: her personal maid and former colleague Mlle. Giry" THIS MAKES ME SICK, FORSYTH!!!!
Christine makes a speech (in perfect English might I add) thanking the mayor and city for a wonderful welcome. She stated that she'd be there for one week only to sing at the Manhattan Opera House . The score written by an unknown American composer has never before been heard. The story is set during the American Civil War....what does Erik know about the Civil War? The title is The Angel of Shiloh. Like the dog? It concerns the struggle between love and duty when a Southern belle falls in love with a Union officer. She will be singing the role of Eugenie Delarue. Wtf? After seeing the score in manuscript form in Paris, the beauty of it made her change her mind about coming to New York.
"For some reason I let my glance stray from the dais below me while she was speaking and saw, standing on the roof of a great warehouse directly opposite mine, a strange figure." Why is Erik's figure always strange, why cant his figure be a man? It was of a man, standing quite motionless and staring down. He wore a broad-brimmed hat and was otherwise wrapped in a flowing cloak that flapped about him in the wind. There was something strange and vaguely sinister about the lone figure, standing high above us, looking down on the lady from France as she spoke." OMG IT'S SPIDERMAN. "How did he get up there unseen? What was he doing? Why was he not with the rest of the crowd?" Then Erik spots him, the guy sees the mask, Erik disappears. The usual.
Oh no!! There's a puddle of mudd! Whatever shall we do!! A young man spreads his coat over the mudd so Christine may walk over it. The man feels honored? Let me tell you something, I dont care if it's the Queen of England, if you mess up my coat, I'm gonna mess you up.
Now Christine heads to the Waldorf-Astoria (naturally) with five days of rehearsals for her debut on December 3rd.
I'm happy to say that we're now half way through the book!! Thanks for sticking with me everyone.
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Post by Little Giry on Aug 6, 2007 10:09:21 GMT -8
Good LORD, did Christine become Venus or something? Did she get a boob job? Did the rabid-phangirls take over the crowd with mind-control devices?! AND WTFLIP?! Meg is a MAID?! *bangs head* This opens up a whole new meaning for trashy novel. GOOD LORD! A MUD PUDDLE! CALL OUT THE RESERVES! As for Christine de Chagny speaks perfect English, please, dancers AND singers who come from Russia, France, China, Japan, wherever, that come to America take a long time to be able to make actual speeches perfectly. And I think it's clear that NONE of them are greeted like the Queen at the DOCKS or anywhere for that matter. There might be a little bash for them at the theatre after their first night, maybe a press squeeze but come on. Evidently Forsythe worships the ground Christine walks on and makes it perfectly clear to all of us that CHRISTINE IS ALL POWERFUL. THOU SHALT BE A KISS-UP UNTIL THINE OWN LIPS FALL DOWN TO THE DUST. His Christine is a Mary-sue, and frankly, it's making me want to wretch.
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Post by Opera Angel on Aug 6, 2007 11:12:02 GMT -8
I feel sad for all the charcters in his book...that should have never been written. If Christine, Erik, and especially magically became "real"people this guy would be sued and this piece of "art" would never have been published and the play never planned..Oh...dreams
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Post by phantomphreak4life on Aug 7, 2007 9:32:28 GMT -8
Yes, I'm afraid so, Little Giry. Forsyth worships all that is Christine.
I'm sure that if we wrote a story, Christine would die in the first chapter from some freak accident.
"But I didnt mean to push her in the well!" lol
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Post by midnightangel on Aug 7, 2007 19:35:49 GMT -8
lol. We wouldn't have to kill her-- poor Raoul with no one to love! *huggles Raoul* I wouldn't like to think of Depressed!Raoul. How about she and Raoul take a honeymoon in Bora Bora or something and just don't return to France? But if we are talking Forsyth's Christine, I say shove her in the well! She is so sickeningly Mary-Sue that I feel faintly ill. Blech. Though, phantomphreak, you may want to know that Shiloh is a place in the South. Not just the dog.  Though Erik knowing-- or really, caring-- about the Civil War is a strange thing for me to grasp. He doesn't seem like a history buff to me. |
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Post by phantomphreak4life on Aug 7, 2007 21:01:19 GMT -8
Though, phantomphreak, you may want to know that Shiloh is a place in the South. Not just the dog. Yes, I figured that. I was just making a joke, it was the first thing that came to mind when I thought of Shiloh. Christine is starring in an opera, The Angel of DOG. |
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Post by midnightangel on Aug 7, 2007 21:06:15 GMT -8
Ah. Okay.... I'm tired and things are either very funny or very... not. I wasn't sure if you were joking or what. lol.
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Post by Opera Angel on Aug 8, 2007 17:19:48 GMT -8
agh just send Raoul and Christine back to England married and happy... and if Erik stays in America then he stays there...but Chirsitne is married get over it please
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Post by phantomgirl110 on Aug 11, 2007 16:28:56 GMT -8
Though, phantomphreak, you may want to know that Shiloh is a place in the South. Not just the dog. Yes, I figured that. I was just making a joke, it was the first thing that came to mind when I thought of Shiloh. Christine is starring in an opera, The Angel of DOG. Or maybe it's The Angel of Brangelina's Baby?  |
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Post by phantomphreak4life on Aug 11, 2007 19:02:54 GMT -8
[quote author=admin board=generalpoto thread=1173324950 post=1186878536.[/quote] Or maybe it's The Angel of Brangelina's Baby? [/quote] ROTFL. Omg, I may just cry myself to sleep tonight. |
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Post by phantomluver4ever1 on Aug 15, 2007 16:30:25 GMT -8
Lol, I wouldn't be suprise if it is the The Angel of bragelinas baby, since how stupid this book seems. Whats next? the Angel of Apple The story of Gwenth Paltrows baby?
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Post by phantomphreak4life on Aug 15, 2007 18:34:29 GMT -8
Or the TomKitten; Suri.
I just dont understand. The Angel of Shiloh doesnt sound very...sweet? flowy? rhymic? angelic?
This is not Erik. This is like Amateur!Erik. Or Wannabe!Erik.
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Post by phantomgirl110 on Aug 15, 2007 20:18:41 GMT -8
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Post by phantomphreak4life on Aug 16, 2007 8:07:11 GMT -8
Do we need a Celebrity Talk/Gossip thread?
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Though Erik knowing-- or really, caring-- about the Civil War is a strange thing for me to grasp. He doesn't seem like a history buff to me.
