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Hannibal

Hannibal

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Sadly disappointed
Review: I read SOTL and was looking forward to reading the next installment. Hannibal is slow, self-gratifying, and the ending is completely ridiculous. If they decide to make a movie of this, I hope they hire a very good screenwriter with a new red pen.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good but not Great
Review: I tremendously enjoyed this novel, even in spite of the shocking ending. It seems that those readers who gave this book a bad review didn't understand the author's intent. According to him, it's not Hannibal who is truely teffifying, but the politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, et al, who sell us all out on a daily basis who are truely horrifying. Hannibal represents the wolf who only prays upon the weak and sick of the herd. If you didn't like this book, may I suggest that you go stick to the safety of your T.V. Guides and crossward puzzles.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Uuuhh -- Could I get my money back . . . ?
Review: What on earth was THIS all about? I was expecting -- eagerly expecting -- a sequel to the masterful "Silence of the Lambs", with Clarice Starling, a talented young woman of determination and principle, and Dr. Lector, her brilliant, esoteric, monstrously self-disciplined mentor. But the principal characters in this book resemble their former incarnations in little besides their names. This Starling, while surpassing the former in physical courage, is a moral and spiritual coward; Lector has evolved into an ostentatious moon-calf. Moreover, the atmosphere, so chilling in the original novel, is this time merely sordid -- if not downright sickening. I think Harris should give serious thought to writing "Hannibal II, Another Option", this time at least keeping his characters in character.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Masterfully written....absurd ending.
Review: Thank goodness Thomas ended the story when he did.

It had been years since I read TSOTL, and his writing style is so deliciously unique and HANNIBAL was so engaging that I fully enjoyed the first 90% of the novel. Needless to say, I, too, have a few bones to pick about the ending.

Was he stumped? Was the deadline near? Editors breathing down his back? But there's no excuse for nearly ruining (yes, ruining) a good story with such a preposterous ending. To shame.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Damm best book I've ever read !
Review: Contrary to what others say, I found this book to be engrossing and re-readable. I also think that Harris has done a good job of potraying Krendler as a son of a bitch. My heart goes out to Hannibal. Tell u guys what, go borrow the book to judge for yourself.Those who gave this book a <4 stars rating sure has no literal taste .

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Hannibal the Cannibal? Hannibal the Avuncular? Who Knows?
Review: Thomas Harris could have spared us the misery of buying into this one by merely coming up with a screen adaptation for "Hannibal", because--let's face it--that's all this novel aspires to be. It simply anticipates the film version. In "The Red Dragon" and, in particular, "The Silence of the Lambs", we were presented with a killer (Lecter) who is compelling not so much as a primary player per se, but rather by virtue of his charismatic malevolence, even in absentia. Now, though, having been given the limelight and the opportunity to show the reader just what exactly he's made of, Lecter--and Harris--fails (miserably) to deliver the goods. He (the good doctor) comes off as something of a lovable rogue, a rather easygoing fellow who happens to have a penchant for human flesh. He is anything BUT monstrous (indeed, it seems that Harris anticipated this response going in, whereupon he created the bastard son of Freddie Krueger and Jason Voorhees [sic], Mason "Mr. Hackflesch" Verger). Special Agent Clarice Starling, formerly stalwart, unflinching in her discrimination between Right and Wrong, and vulnerable without being victimized, also undergoes a metamorphosis of being that is nothing if not incomprehensible, and by tale's end we find (much to our distaste--pun intended--though not surprise) that the Special Agent and her (former) Nemesis are really two sides of the same coin, a synthesis which both upsets and compromises the tension that made the first two "Lecter Tales" so compelling. In the end, then, the reader is left unfulfilled, (deeply) dissatisfied by the story's "surprise" (but is it, really?) ending, and wishing that Hannibal Lecter had lived up to his promise not to call on Special Agent Starling at the close of "Lambs"; unfortunately, though, Hollywood knows--if nothing else--how to milk a good story dry, and who could possibly find fault with Harris for doing little (very little) more than feeding the Machine?

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: THE PLOT SICKENS...
Review: If stars were awarded for grossness then "Hannibal" would be a five star winner. With the prominent role of pigs in the "story", the book would have been better titled "Silence of the Hams". No plot, cartoon characters and the only thrill in this "thriller" for me was getting to the end... and these are the good points. If you insist on reading this trash wait til it's out in paperback and pick it up at your neighborhood used book store for half price. Even then you'll still feel cheated. No question that we will be seeing a movie soon but I hope that Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster don't demean themselves by having anything to do with this nonsense. Note to Mr Harris: You could have mailed this one in. If this is the best that you can do then 15 years may not be long enough to wait for the next one.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: a masterpiece.
Review: it may not have been as elaborately constructed as Silence of the Lambs, but the trip into Hannibal's mind is fathomless, exquisite, and beautiful. i am grateful to the author for such a mirror into the extremes of myself and of any human being.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Clarice finds a surrogate father and Lecter gains control
Review: You have to suspend your desire for what you want to happen to appreciate what actually does happen in Hannibal, and none of the latter should be a surprise. Harris foreshadows it all--in the book and especially in the movie. It's all there: Clarice's painful longing for a/her father; Hannibal's observation of her longing for respectability and taste; the demeaning glances that her male FBI colleagues cast towards her; Jack's love of his wife and the deep loneliness and sadness that he feels both before and after her death; and, of course, Hannibal's obsessive and even passionate determination to control people completely--not just their bodies but, as in Clarice's case, their souls. This book is about so many things that the reader who is hoping for a traditional or even traditional Harris-like conclusion, in which good and justice sort of triumph over evil, are definitely not going to be happy. I wanted Clarice to triumph; to resist the temptation to be absorbed into Hannibal's delusions. I wanted her to triumph over the chauvinistic FBI system that forced her alienation from the work she loved. However, Harris ignored my wishes and apparently those of many others. He concludes the book in a way that is absolutely logical and consistent with everything that has come before.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Disgusting exploitation of an audience
Review: Whether you liked, or didn't like, Silence of Lambs (I liked it alot) .... DON'T Read this book. It is disgustingly exploitive of its audience with just barely enough plot to weave together the various episodes of insanity of the type we usually only read about in courtroom accounts (unfortunately). Unless you often immerse your mind in filth, skip this one entirely. The worse part of it all is that (1) this one is obviously soon to be on the silver screen- probably a big hit and (2) there is an audience for this filth (I'll have nightmares about that aspect for awhile).


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