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Summary: Weren't you expecting a romance?
Review: I certainly was, and thanks to Mr. Harris, received one. From the moment of Clarice and Hannibal's first touch in SILENCE, I expected the good doctor to become obsessed. And wouldn't any woman be flattered by such a man's attentions? The ending was haunting and raised all sorts of wonderful questions for the reader. Will the two begin a killing spree together? Or will Clarice be the steadying force to Dr Lector's madness? Will they expand Clarice's limited knowledge of human cuisine? Will they have a child? Can Will Graham get himself rehabilitated enough to chase after the duo? The book was not another SILENCE, nor should it have been. The book was written for Hannibal alone, as the title implies. And, for Hannibal, it was a happy ending.
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Summary: red sparks of brilliance, but many black holes too
Review: Many readers have stated their disappointment with the ending of this book, and I am inclined to agree. The writer will carry you through several hundred pages of brilliantly sustained hyper-reality, characters that will remind you of people that you know, perhaps wished that you didn't know, scenes that will distress you with the immediate urgency of the evening news, charm you with descriptions of old world culture reminiscent of 'Interview With the Vampire', inform you in layman's terms of contemporary metaphysics regarding the nature of time, and ultimately plunge you into a milieu of stunningly implausible outcomes. Apparently this book took Mr. Harris about ten years to complete. I wonder if he himself got lost in the effort, perhaps in a sort of novelist's 'palace of dreams', and found easy closure through the anticipation of yet another installment of the Hannibal saga, an artistic retreat that has proved commercially lucrative for similar genre writers such as Anne Rice and Stephen King, notably also with considerably reduced critical integrity.
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Summary: Thomas Harris does it again
Review: Harris manages to pull it off--he skillfully seduces the reader into cheering for the monstrous Hannibal Lector (and he IS monstrous). Suspenseful, gory, and moving. The trajectory is bizarre, but to my mind, it works beautifully.
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Summary: Brilliant and astonishing
Review: I loved this book. It amazed me. I never believed that Mr. Harris could write another Lecter book without selling out to the hoards, like Crichton's "Lost World". I held my breath throughout the book, blinking my eyes while turning pages. I am in awe of Thomas Harris.
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Summary: What??
Review: I was really looking forward to this book. I enjoyed reading it, was swept up in the story early. The parts in Italy were very good. Somewhere in the last third, the story started to go awry. I don't know what the ending was supposed to portray...Clarice Starling was completely out of character. All in all, the book was entertaining, but alas, a little disappointing. I am not looking forward to a movie, afterall.
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Summary: Wierd, appalling...but what's so bad about that?
Review: This book was an odyssey! I have to say I loved it. I read it in about a day and 1/2. Exquisite in it's craftsmanship, dark, confusing, seductive, twisted...just the way I like 'em! I *do* feel like the ending was a tad disconnected, but it was too much fun for me not to like it. But, all in all, I haven't so thoroughly enjoyed a thriller since Silence of the Lambs itself! Oh, and as a side note, I loved the lecture on Dante's Inferno. Gotta love that Dante.
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Summary: HUH
Review: I know what took Thomas Harris so long to write this book. He had to bribe Danielle Steele to finish the last three chapters! What a goofy book. Someone, please tell Mr Harris that he has no future as a romance novelist. And Hannibal as a movie? Well, only if you can get Fabio to play Lector, Charo as Starling and Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie playing Margot. Yes, folks, a comedy!
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Summary: this book is soooo bad!!!.
Review: After reading Hannibal I was convined someone else wrote it. I think Mr. Harris needed money and time was running out. He paid someone else to slap this together before deadline. It is that bad. The plot was pathetic. I was bored to start with but hoped it would get better. It got worse! The Barney and sister thing was ridiulous. Tom Harris may have suffered from writers block. I could have come up with a better plot.
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Summary: HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT!
Review: After "Red Dragon" and "Silence of the Lambs" I was anxiously awaiting "Hannibal." Boy, was I disappointed in Thomas Harris' latest effort. His new book is over-the-top, pretentious dross. Mason Verger is a surviving victim of Lecter who is hideously scarred and paralyzed from the encounter. He spends his life hooked up to a respirator in the family mansion (Muskrat Farm) dreaming of extracting revenge against Lecter by having him captured then eaten alive by large, vicious, selectively-bred swine. This is just plain STUPID. Why does Harris feel the need to include a day care center for welfare kids in this mansion where Verger watches the kids play via video camera? Another ridiculous character is Rinaldo Pazzi. Pazzi is the Chief Inspector of Police in Florance, Italy on the trail of Lecter. He apparently is capable of instantaneously solving crmes by his super-human sense of hearing and smell. What? The over-the-top characterizations continue as Lecter now seems to be the smartest man alive. Lecter also becomes this sympathy-seeking victim who ends up revealing details of his past like a guest on a really bad episode of "Donahue." Toward the end of the book I found myself not even caring how it was going to end. I was hoping that somehow the killer swine would consume all involved. Perhaps Mr. Harris should stay in seclusion or gone on to different subject matter.
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Summary: Completely unbelievable, almost entirely disgusting
Review: Mr. Harris has managed to foist upon his readers a work that, while taking place in what must be a parallel universe, manages to have no, absolutely no, characters with any redeeming qualities. His characters are distinguished only by their monstronsity and the degree of their veniality. I suppose this sort of thing appeals to those who enjoy cheap horror films but I feel cheated out of the price that I paid. A shame, I enjoyed "The Silence Of The Lambs"
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