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Summary: Wow! Great Story!
Review: This was an incredible ride! The character development was great. Just when I thought I had something figured out Thomas Harris would throw a twist in there. Fantastic!
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Summary: Genre Fiction
Review: This is good genre fiction. It is better than the movie. However, like most genre fiction it is rather superficial. I guess that is to be expected. Also the story relies on building tension and the now hackneyed interweaving of two stories (Graham's relation with his wife and Dolarhyde's spree killing). But Harris does not quite pull it off. The resolution is predictable. This is a variation on a standard theme. Harris tried to combine the psychological thriller with the serial killer/spree killer theme but with little success. Despite all this the book is an entertaining read.
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Summary: Part one of the "Hannibal Lector" Series....
Review: While I was living in Poland for a year, teaching English, my family out of sympathy or love or both, mailed me a box of English books. One of the books was "Hannibal" the third part and at the time the most popular of Thomas Harris' series. I became engaged by it and read the entire thing, even the exceedingly gruesome parts with Mason Verger. I guess I'm going in reverse here because I recently purchased "Red Dragon". As it is so often in trilogies the first one is usually the best and this series is no exception. Harris' profound knowledge of investigative and forensic science is impressive. He uses techniques and terminology that sound modern today even though the novel was written in '81. I bought this book on Friday and today being the following Tueday I have already read through 300 pages of it. This book is hard to put down. One of the main reasons I bought it was to see what the "real" ending is since both film adaptions of the book ended differently (On a side note 'Manhunter' was the better of the two). I was pleased to see that the literay perspective was the most detailed, providing the reader with much more background into Francis Dolarhyde's life and Freddy Lounds' motivation. Although I have not gotten to the end yet, I think it's safe to say at this point that this book is excellent and any fan of thriller/horror novels should enjoy it. If you are squeamish about violence then you should try "Harry Potter" because unless you are prepared for Harris' sometimes morbid writing details as I was, this book may shock you at times.
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Summary: Very, very good
Review: I just finished reading the book, and it didn't take me long. Usually I dont really get into books, but I thought this one was really good. It's very detailed and better than the movie. It was also realistic, which also kept me reading since it wasn't obviously realistic. I'd recommend this book--you won't be wasting your time!!
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Summary: Great Read
Review: The book Red Dragon really catches your attention when it starts off with a conversation between two detectives. One detective is trying to get the other detective on the job. What is the job, you ask? A psychopathic killer is on the loose. This has been a very suspenseful book so far. I have really enjoyed it.
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Summary: Not as Lectercentric as advertised, but solid all the same
Review: You already know the plot.For "Red Dragon", Harris' treatment of Hannibal Lecter is logical; Lecter's not the one on the loose - let's focus on the one who IS. The back-and-forth between Will Graham's rigorous sleuthing and Dolarhyde's psychotic "Becoming" yields a complete, three-dimensional tale I couldn't put down. Will Graham is cursed with the ability to adopt the mindset of people who do horrible things. He has believable relationships with Jack Crawford and with his own family. Harris demonstrates confidence by not putting plot above character development. Graham is like the men in Stephen King novels, given life through a body of mundane, realistic details and internal monologue. Francis Dolarhyde IS a curse, brought about by abandonment, disfigurement, physical and psychological torture. His backstory is as tragic in print as Karl Stargher's was on film in "The Cell." He doesn't possess great physical strength; he is possessed OF that strength. Another strong point is the emphasis on forensic detail, shared by writers such as Patricia Cornwall and TV shows like "CSI." The good guys do what they do through exacting, frustrating, fearful work. "Silence of The Lambs" is a great story, but "Red Dragon" proves that the universe doesn't revolve around Dr. Fava-Beans-and-A-Nice-Chiante.
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Summary: Great Suspense novel
Review: The prequel to Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris' Red Dragon, is a very suspensful read. I couldn't put it down after I began. Highly Recommended.
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Summary: Get Ready for a Book thats gonna get you by the Troat
Review: This is a great book called "The Red Dragon" exspecially if you're one for hard-core murders and lots of details. BUT WAIT-what if I told you that there was a young loving family involved? A wife, husnband, and eight year old boy.Who had to help save the lives of others and protect their own. A man who has to maintain a love life with his wife and still go into houses houses where people were murdered to investigate. The blood still splattered on the walls, the broken mirrors, the suffication-like feeling and the smell of death as he enters each room, the blood stains on the bed sheets. Then go home and pretend everythings alright. What if I told you this serial killer is different that most and you can't undestand him because he's not 100% human. For he is possed by a demon called...The Red Dragon.
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Summary: Best suspense story I ever read!
Review: This is the best suspenseful story I have ever read.
Red Dragon is about a FBI agent named Will Graham who is trying to solve a case about a guy that choose houses by random and killing every body in the house one by one. This guy is very smart he doesn't leave that many clues. This guy is Dr.Hannibal Lecter.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: All I can say is that this work is a masterpiece. I felt like I was living every moment in the book.
From what I've studied about the movie, I can tell that it would be quite dissapointing. They did not develope Francis Dolarhyde's character enough and didn't do him justice. Sure, he is a sick, twisted, evil monster, but he is a work of art.
READ THIS BOOK, it is worth the time and money.
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