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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: I love this book!!! I absolutely can't put the book down once I've started reading it. On the average, I finish reading books within 3 weeks. I've finished this book less than a week! ^__^ So good! Grab one now!!
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Summary: what a page turner!!!
Review: I have never read a book of this magnitude before I am only 19 and I was completely enthralled it was so easy to read!!! I only had a few nights of no sleep! I can't wait to see the movie next week!! Then I'm going to go buy Silence of the Lambs!! I defintly have found a new favorite book and Thomas Harris has a fan for life!!
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Summary: Superb Insights into Law Enforcement Methods, Broken Minds
Review: This author has joined Robin Cooke (the medical disaster novels) as my other "must read" fiction author. The homework he has done, and the manner in which this book teaches us what absolutely astonishing things can be done by a combination of good street work (don't screw up the site) and good lab work (truly impressive means of making connections, such as classifying the precise brand of gasoline or cleanser based on residual aromatics) just held me spell-bound. On the darker side, the manner in which he connected childhood abuse and neglect to split personalities and demonic self-concepts that thrived on killing animals and then people, can only cause one of reflect on how many times thoughtless actions by families as well as social workers might have unintended consequences. The brief love story between a blind woman and the antagonist, who considered himself disfigured, is very well integrated into the plot and adds real value. Super book, highly recommended.
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Summary: Good effort by Harris
Review: It is not his best work which is Silence of the Lambs in my opinion. However, he does a great job showing us the character of Francis Dolorhyde and what makes him kill people. I also liked Lector's character in the story. He has a very powerful pressence which makes you cringe and be excited at the same time. Will Gram is cool as well. I like the way that Harris makes him a thinker, and has him use his brain to catch the killer. Very cool showdown between Francis and Will!
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Summary: Sleepless Nights Abound...
Review: Thomas Harris is a writer who publishes scarcely (on average, a book every seven years). But you can be sure that each new book will be suspenseful and thrilling. After all, Harris IS the guy who invented Hannibal Lecter, the most notorious killer ever printed on the page. Unfortunately, for those who want another Lecter-filled novel (like Silence of the Lambs and its slightly inferior sequel, Hannibal) will be greatly disappointed. In fact, although this book marks Lecter's first appearence ever, he is a very minor character in this book, seen only in maybe twenty or so pages. Instead, this story is about the title character, the Red Dragon, aka the Tooth Fairy, a killer who preys on whole families and kills them in their sleep. Even more frightening, he films their murders and keeps the tapes as mementos. It is now up to FBI agent Will Graham to catch this killer before he strikes next. Graham, like all great suspense novel protagonist, is haunted by his past. He was the man who captured Lecter, but he is still haunted by the traumatic events of that day. Now, he will have to turn to Lecter himself to get help in sovling the crimes, as the Tooth Fairy will turn to the infamous murderer and become a pen pal of sorts with him. The most amazing thing about this novel is that it is the antogonist himself, the Tooth Fairy, who takes center stage. Harris created a killer who is both repulsive and intriguing, a killer whom you hate even if you can't stop yourself from caring about him. Harris brings us right into the madman's past to show us how the mind of the serial killer is given birth to. And this little bit of time traveling is one of the most disturbing and emotionally frightening things I have ever read. Harris is without a doubt the master of nail-biting suspense. His tales move fast, his dialogue is witty and his characters are highly believable. Although this book doesn't achieve the greatness that Harris found with Silence of the Lambs, it is still a great entry in the Lecter legacy, and a great stand-alone suspense novel.
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Summary: "Terrifying--needed a little smoothing."
Review: I am a big fan of the films; Silence of the Lambs and, Hannibal. This is the first book by Thomas Harris I have read. The main reason I had to read this book was the fact that it will soon be a movie.
I have my fingers crossed that this movie does credit to the book. I'm sad to see that the original director did not direct this movie. Since he didn't, a better choice may have been David Fincher (Fight Club). At any rate, I have my hopes up.
I was disappointed with the way the author left some parts of the story unfinished, such as the chapter about Dolarhydes childhood. Harris had an excellent chance of putting together a fantastic finale, yet he rushed the ending. Don't get me wrong, the ending, as well as the whole book was spooky. Just a little touch-up and this book would have been a perfect 5.
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Summary: Fast-paced, bold entertainment
Review: "Red Dragon" is one of Thomas Harris' best novels to date. The plot has several twists and turns, and keeps you guessing. The ending is one worth reading to find out!
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Summary: Not as good as Silence; but not as over-rated as Hannibal
Review: I have read both 'The Silence of the Lambs' and 'Hannibal' before reading 'The Red Dragon', and I place this novel between them both in a scale of greatness. I liked The Silence... the charactes and situations are well developed and disturbing. On the other hand, I think Hannibal is quite confusing, it reads like it needed to be edited to me. The situations seem to be unfinished, as if Thomas Harris was such a writer that no editor could change his work. That's why I think Hannibal is so over-rated. So when I started reading Dragon I didn't know what to expect from it. It comes out that the result is much closer to Silence. This is when Mr Lecter - everyone's favioute cannibal - first and shortly appears. He is not the main character, he has only a supporting role as a man who helps an agent to find a serial killer, that claims himself to be the Red Dragon, hence the title. The best parts of this novel are those when we are with the Dragon. He is not only fascinating, but very disturbing. It is not scary, but some descriptions are kept in your mind a while after finishing it. There is nothing new when it comes to serial killers. He kills, and Freud will remembered later on, as usuall when we learn why he is the way he is. That's it, most of the wirters seem to have the same explanation to mental disturbs. All in all, to me, Harris is not a great writer, despite having created one of the most famous characters from thrillers, but his style is too simple, and when he wants to sophisticate it becomes confusing and pointless. Hannibal had so many sub-plots and bizare characters that it is pointless. Red Dragon has less characters and the whole story is focused on the killer, what makes the reading interesting and keep the interest up most of the time.
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Summary: Good concepts...too bad about the writing
Review: The plot of _Red Dragon_ is among the best of the "airport thriller" genre. Thomas Harris' characters are believable and memorable, and they move through the novel realistically. "Dragon" has the makings of a top-notch thriller. Unfortunately, Harris' writing style gets in the way. Clumsy descriptions, and, more than anything, awkward dialogue are the main culprits. It's really a tribute to Harris' storyline and his other storytelling techniques that his writing problems do not get in the way of suspending disbelief or being on edge throughout the novel. His writing ends up just being an omnipresent annoyance that, with effort, can be ignored, like a soft buzzing that lasts the length of a movie. It's not heavy reading, and worth it just for the introduction to Hannibal Lecter, but I just wish Harris had a better editor or *some*thing. Everything to make it great is there, it just needs fine-tuning.
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Summary: Excellent thriller
Review: This book has everything, is easy to read, it has suspense, is an excellent thriller, a good beginning and a very good end, it doesn't have ugly descriptions and it has no sex at all, believe it or not, is a book for a kid 13 or older.
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