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Summary: The Most Daring, Original Ending in Horror Fiction in Years
Review: Harris gives us what we want. The Good Dr. Lector in rare form. Harris clearly means to avoid the same ole hackneyed plot ploys and works overtime to do it. Hannibal is living in Florence. And FBI Agent Starling is about to get the boot, after a drug bust goes terribly wrong, when the good doctor sends her note. And the chase is on. The ending is quite frankly one of the most daring, most original ones in horror fiction I have read in years. Unfornately I can't tell you. The book also contains the answer as to why Hannibal became a Cannibal. Check it out.
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Summary: Disappointing ending
Review: Most of the book was actually rather interesting though parts were a bit grotesque. The ending, however, was terrible. It went on for at least fifteen pages in an implausible and revolting haze.
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Summary: I was mad by the end of the book - but that might be good
Review: 80 - 90% of this book was excellent and then I read the last 30 or so pages. Thomas Harris threw a curve ball that I was by no means expecting and in fact I was pretty mad that he had thrown it and that I had read through all the rest of the book just to make it to this. That was my first reaction but now after a few weeks I kind of enjoy the fact that the book ended in this way. It was nice to read a book that there was no way to predict its ending. I'm still a little dissatisfied with the plausibility of the books ending but am I no longer mad at Thomas Harris for surprising me.
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Summary: This is a good book-- for me to poop on!
Review: Harris, Harris, what have you done to the characters from "Silence of the Lamb?" This book is so bad, taking more time out of my life other than telling you not to waste your time is like pooping on poop!
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Summary: There's no excuse for this book
Review: This is one of the most grotesque books I've ever read. It's filled with characters and situations that are disgusting. The ending is not believable. It doesn't even deserve one star.
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Summary: VISCERAL, MASTERFUL--SCARY AS ALL HELL!
Review: As an active status member of the Horror Writer's Association, I am not a virgin when it comes to reading or writing horror. However, when one is in the presence of the Grandmaster of Gore, one becomes sufficiently humbled. Nobody does it better than Thomas Harris. In this third outing of Dr. Lecter, the reader is treated to terrors to roll over on the tongue--a book that will sink its teeth--into you! You may never "eat Italian" again. (At least not anything with a red sauce). Stop whatever you're doing, and buy this book!
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Summary: Better than You've Heard
Review: Please ignore the negative reviews this book has gotten in the press from the politically correct and those who just don't get it. This is an instant classic. It's a mesmerizing meditation on corruption and what really *is* evil in an absurd world. Yes, it's very dark, but you will be stunned by the wisdom you find when you come through it. Like the best fiction, it rearranges the way you look at things.
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Summary: Puh-leeze
Review: No doubt Jodie Foster passed on the role when she got to the end of the book and it described Clarice's hairdo as a "platinum helmut." What drug was Harris on when he wrote the ending? No way can you change a belief and value system by dangling a few baubles and a plate of foie gras under their nose as Harris implies in the book. This one was a real yawn.
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Summary: This book was like a car wreck...
Review: I knew it would be bad and I would be thoroughly disgusted with myself for bothering to look, but I couldn't resist. Everything I'd heard about how bad it was *made* me want to read it, just so I could see for myself how bad it really was.I won't bother to give away the ending, but suffice it to say that if it were mentioned here, you might feel the need to read it yourself just to see for yourself that he really had the audacity. I think Harris' secret plot here was to thoroughly disgust the reader with the characters so that he never has to write them again. After all, he's a made man now, no need to visit with ghosts of the past, especially if nobody wants to see or hear or read them ever again after this ten-car-pile-up of a travesty.
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Summary: What a horrible way to silence the lambs, Clarice.
Review: Great book...until the end. Lame, twisted, stupid, rushed, out-of-ideas, out-of-character ending. Drugs and hypnosis? I think it would have worn off before the "Buenos Aires, three years later..." Jodie Foster ain't reprising her role not because the paycheck is too small, but because her character goes off the deep end. Good for Foster. I heard they're changing the ending for the movie anyway. Let's hope it's better than the ending in the book.
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