Hannibal

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Summary: FOUR AND A HALF STARS!
Review: I'm a Thomas Harris fan, so I enjoyed this book. It wasn't as good as THE RED DRAGON and SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, but it was good enough that it kept me reading through the night. The ending could have been better. *** I would like to recommend another author by the name of A.T. Nicholas. He wrote a novel called, THE FIST OF GOD. It's his first book and he's signing the first three thousand sold through Amazon. It's a great supernatural thriller.

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Summary: Incredible
Review: This book blew me away. Although a little slow, I did enjoy the Italy descriptions. The ending was stunning and 180 degrees from were I thought it was going. This book had me on the edge

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Summary: Horrific morality overlaid on banal plotting
Review: Harris draws the reader into a morality trap: who deserves the reader's empathy? The answer is no one. Readers are treated to morality lessons from Hannibal Lector and forced to choose between his brand of evil and that of his sixth victim, Mason Verger. Clarice Starling, in the end, also fails as an empathetic character, and the reader is forced to wash the distaste from his or her mouth. In addition, the plotting is predictable except for the ending which lacks verisimilitude. Harris creates one character in Starling and then bends her without foreshadowing into something else just to end this screenplay treatment. It is not worth wasting your time or money on this book.

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Summary: thought it was great until the end
Review: i was on the edge of seat for most of this thrilling book. until after the climax hit and the book came to a close. the last 50 pages gave quite an unrealistic twist. it personall ruined it for me.

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Summary: What a ride!!! The master is back and better than ever!!
Review: This book is not for the faint of heart. We learn more about the motivations of Dr. Lecter and begin to understand his fondness for Agent Starling. The ending is absolutely worth the ride!!! I am eagerly awaiting the pre-quel of Red Dragon--I want to learn more about Lecter's crimes and how he was caught. So, Mr. Harris if your reading this.....

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Summary: TERRIBLE ENDING
Review: Great opening scene, gritty and intense. Everything was good, good story line, great explanations and good follow through. Characters seem so real that you associate yourself with them. You understand their motives, their desires and fears. Finished book in one night..so dissapointed at the ending.....one comment to all prospective readers....DON'T READ THE LAST FORTY PAGES IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY THIS NOVEL......

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Summary: Amazing writing, unbelievably dissapointing ending
Review: As usual, Thomas Harris is very capable of writing amazingly well. His quality and word formation is brilliant, and up till now, all of his books have been good. To me, I guess, up until the last 50 pages, I greatly enjoyed it. And then, all of a sudden, it doesn't make sense. When authors write books, they characterize, and Thomas Harris is the king of this. But at the ending of Hannibal, Clarice suddenly steps out of character and changes completely. The ending is so unbelievable stupid and so dissapointing, I don't even reccomend it.

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Summary: Skip the last ten pages.
Review: Liked "Red Dragon", loved "Silence of the Lambs", and was really looking forward to this. The main part of this book, while not breathtakingly exciting, was very interesting to read. I liked seeing this different, cultured side of Lecter, one of the most interesting characters/villians ever. However, I was absolutely astounded at the ridiculous ending involving Starling, one of the most compelling female characters I have ever read. It was like someone else wrote the ending. Does Harris not have family, friends, editors who can be brutally honest with him? If they make a movie out of this, and I hope they do (and I hope they can get Hopkins out of retirement; he would relish this deeper, cultured side of Lecter) they had better do a serious re-write on the ending.

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Summary: I thought it stunk! Not worth the time or money!
Review: I just perused some other reviews and was happy to see that most agreed with me, very big waste of time! I honestly can't believe Harris wrote it, its not worthy of him. Not only did it not scare me, it was boring, and many facts were incorrect from SOTL- for example, Clarice's mother was dead before her father was shot - how come Harris didn't remember that fact? There were other inconsistencies as well. For a book that many of us had waited for over 6-7 years, it had a lot of pages but short on substance. I believe that a few of Harris's readers could have come up with a much better story line than what was served up to us in this book. Maybe Harris has just lost his touch - too bad! I thought he was one author who wouldn't give in to the almighty buck from Hollywood as others have (Patterson, Grisham et al). Oh well, time to search for a new favorite author! The Red Dragon was the best mystery that I have ever read - it kept me up the entire night and home from school the next morning.

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Summary: The increase of disorder
Review: Entropy reaches its climax in this book. Sick minds seem to beeverywhere and Clarice Starling is Dr. Lecter's ultimate victim andachievement. Only him could understand and savour "il miele dentro la leonessa". A powerfull, complex and disturbing book. I really enjoyed it. The unknown is only more fascinating when it comes from Thomas Harris.