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Summary: The Greatest Thriller in Years!!!!!!!!
Review: I absuloutely loved this book, I kept on reading and reading, I couldn't put it down, it was a great book! It's about a retired FBI manhunter named Will Graham. Who is brought back to the FBI to track down a new, psychotic killer on the loose. A savage madman who's been slaughtering families one by one in horrifyingly violent ways. Will Graham has a special gift that he must use to catch the killer, he must think like the killer. He used this methods years before to track down serial killer Dr. Hannibal the Cannibal Lecter. A man who once was simply Dr. Hannibal, a brilliant psychiatrist who went mad and murdered his patients one by one. Now he's in prison thanks to Graham, and Graham is going to ask for his help in catching this madman on the loose. While reporter Freddy Lounds is kidnaped by the killer, who calls himself the Red Dragon. Through this fast paced thriller, the book explains the killer's life, his girlfriend, his lust for death, and his past that led him to come to such insanity. While Graham uses his strange methods to close in on the serial killer. And the book keeps you reading all the way until the shocking end no one could predict. I love this book. The author, Thomas Harris, later used his character Dr. Hannibal in another shocking book that was excellent as well, The Silence of the Lambs. But all together, Red Dragon is an edge of your seat thriller that keeps you breathless!
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Summary: Fantastic and frightening
Review: This book is the best one I've read in a very long time. I loved the characters and the plot was fabulousy written. And it was genius introducingDr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter. I think this novel was maybe even superior to The Silence of the Lambs.
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Summary: The beginning of the Hannibal love affair...
Review: I read RED DRAGON years ago when it was first published. I am in the middle of reading it again. How wonderful it is to return to that first taste of Dr. Lecter's incredible mind. RED DRAGON is more fast paced but not as experimental or eloquent as HANNIBAL. I read HANNIBAL slowly to savor every word and to analyze Dr. Lecter's world to the extent possible. I'm glad that in HANNIBAL, Harris only lets us get so close. No character as sexually intriguing and as close to the devil himself, should be let loose to the public at large. He does not wish to be nor should we want him to be. Hannibal the Cannibal must have some mystery. Hannibal is a genuis demon protective now of the world he has achieved with an "honest" woman. Honesty is one trait he and Starling both respect--and we must remember: both were orphans. Harris, I thank you for RED DRAGON, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, and especially for HANNIBAL. I respect you for not turning out the same plot ploys, POVs, etc., as some forever-writers are doing. Anyway, you have to be better. You're from Mississippi...
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I am of like mind with the earlier reviewer who praised Red Dragon and The Triumph and the Glory as the two best novels he's read this year. Red Dragon is intense, fascinating, by far Harris' best book, even better than Silence of the Lambs.
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Summary: Cliched. Extremely overrated
Review: Well, at least it reads fast. This extrememly underwhelming serial killer yarn has some interesting plot elements, but far too many have been done before and done better. The serial killer was surprisingly tame, and Harris's attempts to bring the reader into his mind were hackneyed tropes of the genre.An earlier and superior example of this genre is Jim Thompson's "The Killer Inside Me."
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Summary: Fantastic !! An awesome read ! Impossible to put down !
Review: I had the pleasure of reading "The Red Dragon" several years ago, when it first appeared in paperback. When was it, some time in the 80s? I don't remember the exact year. I am a real book worm. I have read literally hundreds of books before and since that time. But I have to tell you, "The Red Dragon" is beyond a doubt, hands down, the very best modern suspense thriller that I have ever read. It is well written. The characters are well developed, you can feel for them as human beings. It is engrossing. Intense. Hannibal Lector is the quitessencetial villainous monster in human flesh. And most of all, it is supremely terrifying ! It packs a wallop that will keep you on the edge of your seat from the very beginning to the very end. And in the end, just when you think that everything is resolved and you are finally going to get a good peaceful night's sleep, don't be so sure. Look Out, dear brothers and sisters, because "Wham !" it hits you again and this time leaves you crumpled on the floor. If you saw the movie "Silence Of The Lambs" or read the book and you liked it you owe it to yourself to read "The Red Dragon". This is where it all began. And, according to opinion, is probably ten times more frightening then "The Silence Of The Lambs" movie ever was. A book so creepy that you will be looking over your shoulders and bolting all of the doors. But still, you just can't put it down. You have to find out what happens next.
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Summary: Very good, not great crime thriller
Review: This is a rounded 3 1/2 star rating. Red Dragon was a solid and suspenseful serial killer tale, with some nice plot details. I especially liked how Graham slowly arrived at the link between two seemingly random slaughters by getting to know the families as they lived. The moment when it dawns on him that the killer must have watched the same home movies he's obsessing over is classic (it played well in the film version too). I was less enthralled by all of the backstory devoted to Dolarhyde, and felt that the sense of menace was badly compromised by making him too sympathetic. Maybe I was biased by seeing the movie first, where they almost totally dispensed with Dolarhyde's psychology (the title "Red Dragon" had no meaning in the context of "Manhunter"). I was also surprisingly disappointed in Thomas Harris' writing, considering how widely praised he is. I found the shifts from past to present tense annoying and contrived, and some of his sentence fragments (in dialogue and narrative), just inscrutable. I don't have the book in front of me and can't cite examples, but often had the sense that he was trying for terse elegance in his phrasing and just ended up with something awkward. About 100 pages into Hannibal, my first impression is how much better his writing has become - it's too soon to comment on his storytelling.
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Summary: Fantastic
Review: Only The Triumph and the Glory held me as spellbound for hours at a time. Red Dragon is the best from Harris, I think it is better tha Silence of the Lambs, and ten times the book that sorry ___ Hannibal is. A great novel, packed with psychological terror, suspense, and a riveting plot worthy of Hitchcock.
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Summary: VERY SUSPENSEFUL
Review: i plan to read silence of the lambs sometime soon, and hannibal also. i was only 1 when red dragon came out and im surprised a book that old could keep me reading on, but it did. i enjoyed it thoroughly.
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Summary: One of my favorites of all time
Review: Harris's most amazing feat here is putting the reader inside the killer's world. What frightens the most is the realization that you are beggining to understand why a pure pschopath does what he does.
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