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Summary: El Stinko!
Review: Of the many books I've read this summer, this is by far the worst-and I've read some bad ones!Harris basically strings together as many gross-out scenes as he can think of, capping it off with the worst, most improbable ending of any "best seller" that I have ever read. Trapped on a long flight to Thailand with this book was like listening to someone in the seat next to me dragging their fingernails across a chalkboard the entire way. If this were the first book of the trilogy, no one would care about parts two and three. Save your money. Wait for the movie and hope they change the ending.
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Summary: A waste of reading time that I hope doesn't waste celuloid.
Review: I took this book to the beach with me this summer. Thank goodness I also took another book. The snobbish tone of the writing, coupled with the long-snouted man-eating pigs clashed like a Bordeaux with a Big Mac -- oops -- there I go, sounding like the king of all Cognac snifter sniffers, Thomas Harris. Then the ending. What can I -- or anyone -- say about that? This is a rediculous book that I pray never gets made into a movie.
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Summary: a great, fast read
Review: I disagree with many readers who found this book to be a disappointment. I have read all of the books in the series, and I loved this one. I found myself unable to put it down. As for the ending, I found it to be bizarre, but that is exactly why I liked it. It was different than anything I had anticipated.
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Summary: Don't even think about reading this one
Review: What a waste of time. Harris takes two very interesting characters of Hannibal and Clarice and ruins them. I think Mr. Harris was either hurting for money or was under pressure to write a sequel to "Silence of the lambs" (a very good book), because this book is a poorly pieced together hunk of rubbish. I've read all three books in the Hannibal series and the second, "Silence..." is the only good one. In this book, Harris should have focused less on the little insignificant details that have little to with the plot and put that time into developing a plot that was worth something. Let me say this about the ending, it almost seems like Harris is intentionally writing an ending to make his readers mad. This ending is so stupid Harris seems to be saying "HERE-I wrote a stupid sequel for you so leave me alone!" Avoid this book as if it were the plague. Shame on you Thomas Harris for ever writing this.
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Summary: disappointing
Review: Hannibal reaffirms my long held personal theory that most contemporary authors have only 1-3 (maybe 4) good books in their careers. ie: Mario Puzo & The Godfather-Stephen King had maybe 4. While I thoroughly enjoyed Black Sunday, Red Dragon and even managed to find some literary salvation in Silence of The Lambs, it is clear (at least to me) that with Hannibal, Mr Harris has, like his aforementiond contemporaries, finally touched the bottom of the barrell. It will be interesting to see if he tries to redeem himself with a sequel.
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Summary: Don't buy the audio tapes
Review: The book gets 4 stars, the audio a zero. One of the main characters has a speech impediment and the reader has taken too much poetic license-ie. you can't understand a word he is saying. After the first 4 painful tapes (we were driving from Dallas to St. Louis) we had to go by the book to see what we missed and to finish the book. Tapes were quickly returned for a refund. As readers of the book, you already know that Mason's "speech" was properly written in the book. But the tapes- "bhey er erribul"
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Well worth the long wait after Silence. True, Silence was a great novel (as were Red Dragon and Black Sunday); but Harris gets credit by not rehashing the same thing. The insight into Hannibal's character is intriguing and fascinating. The evilness and hypocrisy in this book is vivid. I enjoyed the whole novel; those who have not anticipated what they wanted to read, not what the author had devised.
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Summary: What the ... Hey
Review: I've just wasted one day of my life reading what was meant to be the long awaited sequel to Red Dragon and SOTL. How disappointing it was to finally get to the end, after reading all of that banal claptrap about Florence (who cares about Florence) and feel like you've been cheated.
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Summary: Dreadful and tedious.
Review: A book I looked forward to reading was a MAJOR disappointment! At no time was it believable, therefore it was never even mildly frightening. The premise was ridiculous. The execution was even worse. And the ending....don't even get me started on how bad that was! Don't waste your time.
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Summary: Strange Book, Implausible Ending, Poor Editing
Review: I waited for the sequel to "Silence of the Lambs" for 10 years, and I suppose nothing could live up to my expectations. However, I did NOT expect Clarice Starling's bizarre behavior at the end of Harris's work; in fact, there was no motivation for it that I could find in the book to justify it. Unless, perhaps, Dr. Lecter performed a lobotomy on her, without our knowing it? What a major disappointment... The reader is provided with a complex villain in Mason Verger, however.
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