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Summary: Would have been 0 stars, but that isn't an option.
Review: The final (hopefully) book for the Hannibal character disgusted me, bored me, and finally angered me. The book's plot is very convulted. I nearly quit this reading this book and found myself struggling to finish it. There is plenty of gore and loads of wasted detail on Florencian history. If there is one complaint I have about Thomas Harris, it is that he kills the reader with detail that is useless.Hannibal is turned into a super-human psycho, with a nose that a hunting dog would envy, cultery skills that puts Martha Stewart to shame, and a knowledge of Florence that borders disbelief. The complex Clarice Starling of Silence is now a thug who becomes entranced by Hannibal. Mason and his sister are completely uninteresting characters. The first 100 pages gravy-trains Silence. The next 150 pages have no use at all. The real "plot" doesn't begin until the reader is in the 300's. The ending is so totally unbelievable, I wanted to throw the book through the window. I'm going back to non-fiction for a while.
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Summary: Blatant Attempt to Cash in on Reader Interest
Review: What a waste of money and time. Couldn't even finish it...flat characters, dumb plot. Written just for "jolt value".
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Summary: I understand why it took 10 years to write...
Review: Unfortunately, it may take you 10 years to finish it. That is, of course, if you wish to have a complete understanding of Thomas Harris's minute' of references. Harris delves deeply into the mind and mood of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, far deeper than the reader wants or needs or perhaps, can tolerate. It is a fascinating work in terms of the painstaking research that Harris has done. However, it will leave the above average reader of this genre wondering why he would reach so far in his need to explore Lecter's artistic side, when almost everyone pangs for, but doesn't quite receive, a closer look at the evil that Lecter is so expert at providing. Retribution of evil against evil leaves the reader a bit on the sidelines, offering no real protaganist to root for. One might argue that Clarice represents that character, but her fate and loyalities are left translucent. In the end, the reader is left with too many unanswered questions, an interesting way to set up the trilogy, let's just hope we don't have to wait 10 more years for our questions to be answered.
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Summary: not very good
Review: I was very disappointed in this book. I didn't care for the ending at all...I thougt it was a little far-fetched. If this is really being made into a movie I know I won't go see it.
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Summary: Twisted psycho thriller with crumby ending
Review: Easy reading psycho crime drama, though pale by comparison toSilence of the Lambs. The improbable, far fetched ending left me witha very unsatisfying feeling as I concluded the book.
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Summary: Can I get my money back?
Review: Thomas Harris must have been committed to write this book, because he certainly didn't appear to want to do it. I haven't been so sincerely disappointed in a book in a very long time.
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Summary: The Inevitable Decline ... Unfortunately
Review: What a disappointing ending. Absurd. Harris flirts with the psychological background of Lecter but never gets there as in Red Dragon. The investigative work of Clarice I liked and some of the antics of Lecter but the "relationship" at the end of Hannibal was just beyond belief. How does one bring a monster together with the monster catcher? You can't, not possible. They are both just as intense at the extreme opposite ends of the spectrum. Francis and Reba form one of the most intriguing relationships in literature: the Monster and a woman who could actually love him (Red Dragon). It's hard to believe Harris wrote both books. The Hannibal dinner scene is incredibly twisted and vicious beyond all limits a la Lecter -- except one of the "willing" participants ("More!") would never have willingly been there. Lecter's treatment of the unwilling guests is nearly as depraved as the re-enactment in the Gacy biography. What's missing is the elegant treatment of question, "Why?" imho No one has come close to Red Dragon for helping us understand where the monster came from. Maybe no one ever will.
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Summary: Fantastic and a mover, never a dull moment!
Review: This book explains a lot of what happened to Dr. Lector in hischildhood. It was written to entertain you as well as enlighten youabout the backgrounds of the characters. Please keep up the good work MR. Harris.
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Summary: The Real Horror of Hannibal
Review: What a dissapointment. I don't know what has gotten into Thomas Harris' mind, but this book is a disaster. I am not sure how, but I was able to pull through the shallowness of his arid writing and finish it after 4 long weeks of dreadful reading. If I haven't checked the covers, I would have never thought this was the same writer who wrote a classic "The Red Dragon" and one of the most supsensful novels of all time, "The Silence of the Lambs." Save your time, money, and eyes and don't bother with "Hannibal." It's a boring story, with a shallow plot, filled with one dimensional characters and their cliche monologs. As I thought of Thomas Harris as specialist at "it," I waited for a page turning, and suprising climax. But once again, he failed at re-reaching the level of a master writing which has propelled his previous two novels to such heights this novel will not even come close to
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Summary: One of the most disappointing...
Review: This was definitely one of the most disappointing books I have read in a very long time. I kept going, waiting to get to the "good" part, but no such luck. I found both Lechter & Starling to be completely unlikable characters this time around -- I had always found Lechter to be quite entertaining before. Much of the gore in this novel was just there for the shock value. And the ending was the biggest letdown of the whole thing. I couldn't wait to get my hands on this, and bought it as soon as it came out. However, I found myself plodding through it, waiting for the ending. Definitely not worth the time or effort.
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