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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19880318
Author:Roger Flaherty

The latest styles in taped books run from the lower-case poetry of e. e. cummings to the unashamedly bold-face capital letters of Louis L'Amour, the writer of Westerns. And in between we have tales of a fey English lady and French macabre.

First the macabre. The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux. Read by F. Murray Abraham. (Caedmon, two tapes, about 180 minutes, $14.95.) The background music is not by Andrew Lloyd Webber, but there can be no doubt the composer's hit musical prompted this recording. The story evolves in the Paris Opera House, where a hideous creature with the face of ...

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