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Summary: What happens when a good author goes bad
Review: While Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs scared and delighted me, Hannibal bored and irritated me. What could Mr. Harris have been thinking? I plodded through the book and felt like someone looking at a bad accident out of morbid curiosity. I should have given up when my instinct told me to.
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Summary: Brilliantly sculpted.
Review: Thomas Harris crafts another fine tale, with reprises from his most colorful characters: Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter.It seems that public opinion of this book falls in one of two diametrically opposed camps: "I loved it" and "I hated it". This is somewhat surprising, given the book's similarity in terms of descriptiveness to Silence of the Lambs, a book (and film) which enjoyed unprecedented success and critical acclaim in this genre. The sticking point, it seems, which separates these two camps involves the highly contentious ending. Without spoiling this for potential readers, suffice it to say that it invokes a stretch of imagination. Harris's mind is clearly in another world entirely (this man scares me), making his well-researched and well-referenced style entracing. What's not to like?
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Summary: Definitely a great read..
Review: I felt that Hannibal in a lot of respects was, in fact, better than Silence Of The Lambs, if not for the fact of being on a psychological rollercoaster all the way through the book. It's a very difficult book to put down, I strongly recommend it.
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Summary: couldn't wait for the next chapter!!
Review: i love it, hard to put down, my hats off to Mr.Harris , i'm truly in love with Hannible and starling. The ending was ingenious. I can't wait for the next book!!!!!!!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I feel Mr. Harris tried his very best to be outrageously decadent. He succeeded in making his book an outrageously funny black comedy. His other books were very suspenseful and daring with one of his characters being canabalistic. This time that roll was given to the pigs. I feel this story went over the edge and had no redeeming qualities, not even the pretense of an art history major who just returned from his first visit to Italy. Mason Verger and his sister were both totally unbelievable characters. I do think the ending was very weak and was only there to leave the door open for the future little hannibal cannibals. Sorry Tom, I think you got too greedy with this one and just rushed it.
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Summary: A Major Disappointment
Review: Hannibal is one of the worst books I've ever read. I couldn't put Silence of the Lambs down; conversely, Hannibal is so gratuitously graphic and revolting that I had to put it down numerous times. A major disappointment. Don't waste your time and money on this one. Too horrible for words.
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Summary: Horror to the max with a first class ending.
Review: There is not much I can say regarding the book, other than I coulnd't have done it better. Bravo for harris. I myself would love to portray clarice in theis sequel!!!! A definite must read. Thank you for a great piece of art.
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Summary: Over-done
Review: As I was reading this book I was reminded of musicians that have lost their magic and try to over-compensate by hiding behind way over-produced recordings. I did enjoy learning a bit more about what drove Dr. Lecter, but was generally unexcited about everything else. I couldn't put his other books down, this one took me two weeks to plod through.
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Summary: SAVE YOUR MONEY!
Review: What in the world Thomas Harris was thinking when he wrote this book is beyond me. I loved Silence of the Lambs and the Red Dragon, but I forced myself to finish this one. (It took me a month to read this book) I can not put into words what I disliked, there was so much. About the characters, Mason Verger..who ate his own face and survived (yeah right) to the cop in Italy, there was not one socially redeeming quality among them. Then at the end, Harrris further insults our intelligence by having Clarice Starling cohabitating with Dr. Lecter. I really hated this book!!! I am willing to bet the movie will be a long time coming. But it will have to be better than the book!
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Summary: Weak, sophomoric sequel with a anticlimactic ending
Review: I eagerly anticipated reading this book after reading his brilliant Silence of the Lambs. In Lambs he very cleverly and completely developed Clarice Starling's character. In Hannibal, he made her a two dimensional character easily duped by Lecter. I felt the ending was as terrible an ending I could have imagined. I think Harris is in love with the character he created and this clouded his normally excellent writing and plot flow. The book began very well but after Starling's career was halted by Krendler, thereafter book seemed to have been written by another author. It is weak and uninspiring. If you loved Lambs, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK.
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