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Summary: What were your expectations?
Review: I have been reading random samples of everyone's reviews and it seems to me that many people's expectations were not met. Personally, I fully enjoyed the book and absolutely loved the ending. The way the story ended satisfied what I wondered throughout Silence of the Lambs and even while reading Hannibal. I try not to have expectations about a sequel because expectations are most surely built up and broken down. I have now read all three novels involving Lecter and without question, Hannibal is my favorite. Like the title suggest, the book is about Hannibal, not Lecter or Starling or even Verger, but Hannibal - the person he is, how he thinks. It revealed the personal side of Lecter, a side which we never saw before in previous works of Harris'. Harris has a wonderful gift of words - truly I am in the crowd that enjoys his elegant words and descriptions of places, things and people. As for the book itself, one has to wonder who really is the monster in this book? Hannibal? Mason?
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Summary: Best of the Series
Review: By far, this is the finest work to date by Thomas Harris. He is a master of describing such horror that the reader feels he must turn away while at the same time feeling compelled to read on. This was a great book with an unbeliveable surprise ending. Mr. Harris could surely show Stephen King how to end a novel!
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Summary: It couldn't end in a better way
Review: This book requires more thought than the usual horror novel. I found that the relationship between Starling and Lecter quite similar to many intellectual relationships between real police officers and their arrestees, it can become and has become a trap that some officers have fallen into when they begin empathizing with the very people they are supposed to stop. The line occasionally becomes blurred, fortunately for society this does not happen too often.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I thought this was truely an excellent book. I have to admit, I have not read Red Dragon or Silence of the Lambs (i saw the movie :), but I thought it was very well written. I enjoyed the book very much and as long as you don't have a weak stomach, I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a good read.
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Summary: It took him 10 years to write this?
Review: I was extremely disappointed. I found this book boring and self indulgent with not a single character worth caring about. The ending was laughable. For a book to be truly griping or scary there needs to be an element of truth. This book is so far out that I found myself saying aloud "yeah, right". I hope this is never made into a movie. As written, it is far beneath the talents of Anthony Hopkins and Jody Foster. It reads more like "Scream" or "I know what you did last summer".
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Summary: "Hannibal" is a major disappointment
Review: "Hannibal" is a major disappointment. Where "The Silence Of The Lambs" was about suspense and subtlety, Harris' new book is about pushing the boundaries of tastelessness and trying to incorporate as much sadism and cruelty into the plot as he could muster, as though daring the reader to be sickened or not. The credibility of his two main characters gets marred by an ending that is as preposterous as anything I have recently read. And the short, choppy chapters and even choppier language, suggest this was a project exercised exclusively with an eye towards making money and a movie sale. Except the details are so grotesque I would not want to see them enacted, and Harris' ruination of both Lecter and Starling is so appalling, I would not blame Anthony Hopkins or Jodie Foster for turning the film down. To keep afresh the memory of Harris at his most powerful, revisit 'Silence', or, even better,"Red Dragon."
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Summary: The book we wanted him to write, deep in our darkest heart
Review: I'm not surprised that many people dislike this book. Many people dislike their own darkest desires but this book fufills them. There was a reason that Lecter--especially as portrayed by Antony Hopkins -- became an icon of horror with an erotic overtone. He is the ultimate evil, so perfect he becomes a kind of deity. And his uncharacteristic concern for Clarice resonated as an all too modern demon lover. Harris certainly did not sell out. He read the minds of his audience and he read them a bit more deeply than most people can bear. I hate to say it, but I hope for no more Lecter novels because any more would deprive that creature of the perilous salvation he seems to have found in this one.
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Summary: A fall off the cliff of sanity into the years best book
Review: This book proves that you are what you read, and if you haven't 'fessed up about the dark places in your own mind after reading Hannibal, then you're deluding yourself. Harris is playing with his readers and loves it, and the ending is perfect--if you are bothered by it, well just look in the mirror, Krendler! In conclusion I just ate it up. "Would I sound like Oliver Twist if I asked for MORE!?"
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Summary: Hannibal was great, but lacked fulfilling ending
Review: Thomas Harris has a wondering style of writing and develops his characters with skill throughout Hannibal. I found the book to be riveting and worthwhile reading...until I got to the last 30 pages. I was extremely disappointed with the ending and found it to almost be a cop-out for the author to hand it over to the publisher.
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Summary: Hannibal: A Love Story?
Review: Hannibal should have been called, Hannibal: A Love Story. In the end, all of the protagonists - Hannibal, Barney, and Margot end up happily ever after in loving romances. Hannibal with Clarice, another protagonist and most unpredictable character. Hannibal, Barney and Margot are all the masculine aggressors. This is most important with Hannibal, who somewhat nakedly "saves" Clarice. I remember the first two books to be better, though this was entertaining and compelling. This one was a bit too cartoonish. It was a bit to much of an adolescent fantasy. One gets the impression that Thomas Harris is hoping for a movie version in order to see Jodi Foster naked.
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