Hannibal

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Summary: Save your money
Review: Predictible plot, thin characters- why did it Take Mr. Harris 7 years to come up with this obvious sequel?

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Summary: Memories from the kitchen garden
Review: I hesitated few days before i started to read. I wasn't sure if I want to have Dr. Lecter back in my life again. Book once read can't be unread.

But, in the world of "Hannibal", Dr. Lecter is easy. Horror and danger hides elsewhere.

Just can't read this book as any book. Dr. Lecter has already his own room somewhere in our minds (and maybe it has only double blackout curtain instead of the door...). I just prefer the world of Silence of the Lambs, where Crawford`s and Sterling's strong and pure hearts fought against the evil. Now they are both so tired.

In Florence there were exposition of torture instruments. But true element of cruelty were not in these instruments but in the faces of the crowd watching. Maybe there's a message to us readers.

A thing that haunted me most in this book was Dr. Lecters memory of his sister, having a bath in the kitchen garden, adoring the color of egg-plants, her star-shaped hands reaching out. That was the most touching thing I have read for a long time.

Please Mr. Harris, no more Hannibal Lecter- books. Maybe you should try to write the cookbook next. In Hannibal you had some interesting recepies NOT to try !

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Summary: Left me with the familiar taste of a sequel.
Review: Sequels to excellent novels often come with high expectations. True to the custom, while I loved "The Silence of the Lambs" I thought its sequel did not measure up. Although it was well written with several intriguing moments, "Hannibal"'s plot did not have the intensity and the "can't lay it down" effect I had expected. I also missed the discovery of the main characters' psyche - to be expected from a sequel. Harris gets high marks for the continental and artistic flavors. The ending has an erie resemblance to a popular musical with a twist and is somewhat difficult to swallow. "Hannibal" registered on the same scale as the other Harris novels but did not approach its prequel's ranking among my top ten novels.

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Summary: Hannibal Lecter a.k.a. James Bond
Review: After waiting so many years for a sequel to "Silence of the Lambs", and with Mr. Harris' glacial writing pace, we could have expected a stronger book.

Mr. Harris has changed Dr. Lecter into James Bond. Everthing about him is perfect - looks, mannerisms, taste. He has almost completely masked the monster we have come to fear from previous writings. In order to completely hide Lecter's past, he makes his protagonists as hideous as possible - is this Mason Verger or Dr. No?

The book builds to such fevered pace with the final confrontation, then fades to a silly few pages of brainwashing. Such a strong character as Clarice Starling doesn't deserve this.

I fully expected the ending to substitute a Bondish "Ohh James....." with "Ohh Hannibal....".

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Summary: The worst ending in history
Review: After reaching the end of this book I have decided that I don't care about the money spent on it, I JUST WANT TO GET BACK THE TIME I WASTED READING IT! Let me do something worthwhile with it instead! It's so sad because the first half was good, but as soon as Lecter escaped Florence it completely went downhill. And don't get me started on how weird that whole thing with the pigs was. The ending is so ridiculous - it's as if Thomas Harris (after seven years) suddenly lost interest in his own book and just ended it without regard to whether or not it made sense. What happens to the characters is so out of place that one seriously thinks about just how Harris himself believes it. When they make the movie version I will not see it. Never. I almost threw the book out the window when I finished it I was so disgusted. For shame!

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Summary: A violent modern day version of "Beauty and the Beast"
Review: A tale of two souls who are misunderstood and rejected by their own, who find each other and discover an outlet for their repressed sexual feelings. The only words that were left out and should have been included at the end of this book were "and they lived happily ever after."

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Summary: Not a good read for the beach...or anywhere else.
Review: I bought Hannibal to read on the beach while on vacation. I kept reading but also kept wondering why I wasn't interested. I'd put the book down and have to force myself to pick it up again. I did not find it entertaining, thought provoking, scary, or even worthy of mindless beach trash. The only thing that surprises me is that folks out there are still buying it. I don't get it.

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Summary: Great story--till it peters out.
Review: I waited for this book for sooo longgg!!! The first couple of chapters rated 2 stars, the middle part rated 5 stars and the ending rated 1/2 a star. I found it worth reading just for the middle part.

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Summary: Hannibal needs work!
Review: Mr. Harris is a very good writer in creating the character of Hannibal Lecter, one of the most sinster ever, but his current work pales in comparison to his other twp Hannibal books. The first part of the book is good, but the last half borders on the strange and obsurd. The ending was very contrived and not very original and lacked the punchy ending that Silence had. Mr. Harris could have put some more creativity in the contruction of the free Lecter - who in the second half turns into a weak character and totally unitelligent - a bitting departure from Lecter's cool composure. I only hope when this book is made into a movie that the screenwriter please the second half!

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Summary: Pages of Excitement - Chapters of bordem
Review: Did not live up to others. Ending a stretc