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Hannibal |
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Rating: Summary: A "DOG" RATING, ONE STAR IS TOO MUCH!! Review: How disappointing! While SILENCE OF THE LAMBS was suspenseful and thought provoking, HANNIBAL is predictable, boring and overly gruesome. The ending...well, it totally goes against what we know about Starling's character. I bought it the minute it came out. No patience! Had I waited even one day, I would have seen the awful reviews.
Rating: Summary: About the ending Review: An intelligent reader will recognize the ending as the best part of the book, specifically, the last twenty pages. It's not a cop out, and just because it didn't end with the violence that was expected is no reason to dismiss it. The reader who fully contemplates the characters will realize that the ending is both shocking and logical, and it paints the mood of the book in disctincly gothic hues. I defy anyone to name a sequence in a mainstream, popular novel that approaches the creativity of the dinner scene.
Rating: Summary: What a disappointment! Review: I loved The Silence of the Lambs, and was excited to read Hannibal. I read Lambs right before Hannibal, and I think that Thomas Harris or his editor should have refreshed themselves too! Not fifty pages into the book, he makes a reference to Lambs that is inaccurate! I was stunned, and irritated. The style of Hannibal is totally different from that of The Silence of the Lambs. I think I may have liked this book better if I had never read Lambs. The scenes seem implausable, and is written in a dreamy quality I was not looking for in this novel. Some of the references to pop culture are wrong as well, another editing problem. (It wasn't "La Macarena") I don't recommend this book if you loved The Silence of the Lambs and are looking for anything similar. You will be very disappointed. If you go in with no expectations, it's an OK book.
Rating: Summary: Vile. Depraved. Unworthy. Review: I thought that Red Dragon was one of the best books of its genre that I had read, and SOTL was, arguably, even better. I can only assume that Hannibal was the author's reaction to the glorification of Hannibal Lecter that followed the movie of SOTL. If so, and Hannibal is indeed a parody of his earlier work, then Harris holds his readers in the ultimate contempt. I came away from this book feeling angry and disgusted (not to mention, cheated). This book has no redeeming qualities, and quite apart from its basic depravity, it's a big waste of time. It is sick, and my advice to the author is: "seek professional help". By the way, Australian coins come in the following denominations: 5cents, 10, 20, 50, $1, and $2.
Rating: Summary: A sickening sequel Review: Although Hannibal is not nearly as good as Silence of the Lambs, it is at least extremely sickening. Thomas Harris knows all the soft spots that made my stomach twinge, even more so than Silence. Worth the read, if not the money, only for its semi - interesting plot and surprise ending.
Rating: Summary: Extremely Disappointing Review: Thomas Harris couldn't have had a better chance of another hit, but boy did he certainly blow it. The strong characters he built in Silence of the Lambs were changed dramatically. What scared me so in the first book was that the plot could be somewhat plausible. Again, Harris destroyed this possibility especially with his ridiculous ending. I wound up kicking myself for spending time reading the book.
Rating: Summary: Less than one star Review: Harris revealed himself at last in this stinker of a self-parody. It shows he has nothing but contempt for his readers. Anyone can go to the library and search back issues of The Wine Spectator, Cuisine Magazine and Fodor's Italy and come up with enough obscure references to truffles and wine to sound erudite to the unwashed masses. This book was not a thriller. It contained no thrill. Harris just filled 484 pages with his self gratification fantasies dressed up like trailer trash at the opera.
Rating: Summary: Does your eye hurt? Review: Alas poor reader it is true; the author has poked you in the eye. I quote (page 128)'The exposition of Autrocious Torture Instruments could not fail to appeal to a connoisseur of the worst in mankind. But the essence of the worst ......is found in the faces of the crowd.' Hey! this is you. What a shot. Anyway, the book stinks. The ending is ludicrous. Read something else.
Rating: Summary: disappointing-disturbing Review: After SOTL and RD, to say I feel let down is a ludicrous understatement. Is the purpose of this book expressed in the first paragraph of chapter 20?
Rating: Summary: glad I got this book for free. Review: An unimaginative and uninteresting sequel written in such a naive linear fashion that the author has insulted his readers. I am so disappointed that I am writing this with 30 pages left to be read, and am still waiting for a chill to travel up my spine. I was so looking forward to that morbid sense of the macabre that Harris so brilliantly executed in Silence of the Lambs. No such luck. Clarice is weak, Mason is too unbelievable and I think poorly researched (at least as far as his "medical conditions" are concerned), the pigs are RIDICULOUS, Lecter isn't hungry any longer and has lost his chilling edge, and Margot is filler. I am also extremely disappointed in the entire FBI subplot. The only thing I can hope for to get any satisfaction from this book is that the author will spare us another contrived sequel. Amazon rating of 1 star is too generous for this book. glad I got it for free!!
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