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Summary: I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!
Review: I usually use reading as a sleeping-aid, but this book kept me intrested until I just was too tired to keep reading. This book only got four stars because I was disappointed with the ending. Dr. Lecter and Clarice Starling seem to get out of character toward the end. It is still worth picking up. Harris is great at putting disturbing images in your head.
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Summary: If I want a comic book story, I'll read a comic book
Review: I read the entire book over the course of this afternoon. It was fun, and had one truly great moment in my opinion. But the rest seemed like the plot of a comic book. Not a well-written comic, but a cheesy Preacher rip-off. Harris created great characters like Clarice and Hannibal in the last book and ruined them in this one. It seemed like he was writing the book as if it was a movie, yet if they made a movie from this book, I don't think anyone would watch it, even if Hopkins, Foster, and Demme were involved.
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Summary: liked it but i'm traumatized
Review: the actual writing was hard to digest but the plot was good and tasty to follow. i loved reading about clarice and her emerging personality especially since i didn't have to hear Jodie Foster's annoying accent. The ending was completely unexpected and i believe i'm still in denial. During the ending, I would read a page and start screaming,"No way! No way!" I can't wait for the movie because i know they won't keep the ending. definitely worth the time to read at least once.
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Summary: Sir Anthony Hopkins, PLEASE don't sign that contract!
Review: Harris' other books featuring Lecter, Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs, were pretty good reads. Hannibal, however, is as poorly crafted a book as I've read in a while. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT! I am not eager to read his next book, which will appear sometime in 2008, no doubt.
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Summary: The most psychologically gripping book I have ever read.
Review: Wow! I am still reeling 3 days after finishing this book! This has got to be considered brilliant if for no other reason than the empathy you come to feel with Lecter, his childhood explained. My God! Harris forces you to UNDERSTAND Lecter's motives and rationale for cannibalism; not as uncivilized brutality, but as terrible pain filtered through a brilliant mind. The most substantial book of this decade.
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Summary: HANNIBAL CLICHANABAL
Review: Read this book to find out just how NOT to write a book. Nothing in this book was original, interesting, scarry... This is a truley terrible read. It is time for harris to pull away from his writing pen and begin finding another way to make some money. Unfortunetly, people will buy this book because of his previous works, which were only good because at the time, everyone wanted to be an expert in murder cases he so obviously fails to write well about....
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Summary: Remember it's a novel not a screenplay!
Review: I thought 'Hannibal' was a great extension of the previous Lecter novels. However, readers expecting a dramatic sequel to the film will probably be disappointed. Lecter's infamy was fuelled by the cinema and 'Hannibal' mainly serves to flesh out this intriguing character. Hannibal Lecter is a contemporary arch-villain and for many readers the extra context and his swing to anti-hero status will be worth the read. The scenes in Florence and the character of Pazzi were the dramatic highlights of the book - particularly the attempts to steal a fingerprint from the fiend and Pazzi's grizly demise.The problem is that the Pazzi subplot overshadows the anticipated main event: the reunion of Clarice Starling and Lecter. Harris' attempt to justify the motivations of the pair is the undoing of the novel. In 'Silence of the Lambs' the maxim of 'more is less' holds true. Lecter's lack of context adds to his credibilty but in the latest book the explanations, although oblique, serve to increase our disbelief; a bit like turning on the lights in a fairground Ghost Train. The story is littered with physical and moral monsters. The ambiguity of hero and villain prompts a truly unexpected climax but it takes some believing. Although in line with Harris' themes of relative good and evil the ending is hard to accept at an intuitive level. All that said, I couldn't put it down!
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Summary: Godless. A story about greed in the extreme.
Review: It wasn't until the last 8 pages of the book that I realized what Thomas Harris was actually writing about: The corruption of all by greed, and the loss of God and any societal relevance in the process. No major character (and practically no one at all) escapes the influences brought about by greed, mostly by money. None exhibit the usual concerns about society that are learned through religious and cultural exposure. Was this Harris' point? I was disturbed by the utter lack of social conscience, with all 10 or 20 major characters - even Starling - driven by the prospect of personal gain and personal gain only. The ending was unexpected. There are also holes in the details. All in all, however, the book is a worthwhile and easy read, with much of the real gore left to the imagination. It could have been much worse.
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Summary: A true sequel...
Review: ...disappointing in every way. Flat, unbelievable characters; ridiculous situations; hare-brained schemes. Harris's (former) genius was that he could take the unimaginable and make us picture it. But not this time. I rolled my eyes too many times. The openng sequence read like a novelization of a bad movie, as if Harris had merely watched some Joe Bob Briggs fave and faithfully transcribed it--without adding any insight into characterization or motivation, or even the attention to revealing detail that made RD and SOTL horrific and yet believable. I'll no longer have nightmares about Dr. Lecter coming to eat me, because I no longer believe in him. And that's a darn shame.
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Summary: unlikely romance torments reader
Review: well i had great expectations after the first 2 books in this trilogy and although hannibal is a good book,it is not a great one. i found a lot of characters and situations in the book were alien to the previous works. oh yeah and the title stinks of hollywood,what was wrong with harris's working title" the morbidity of the soul?" saying all this though i still read it in a day
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