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Summary: Couldn't put it down ...
Review: (*Some possible spoilers*) To me, it was a great read. I turned to the first page, and before I knew it I was finished with it. It's that engrossing. I really liked the Mason Verger character and his plot for revenge. Also, Hannibal's stint in Italy was very cool. I liked all the historical references that Mr.Harris' uses for the Pazzi character. Finally, I liked looking into the mind of Hannibal which was quite fascinating. I can understand how the ending could disappoint people, but I didn't have a problem with it. (Admittedly, it did take me by surprise.) My take was that the politics of it all was just too much to bear for Clarice. (Nothing she ever did ever pleased anybody, and she kept getting stabbed in the back by the higher-ups.) Keep in mind that she did have too much inner baggage she had to struggle with. Her being drugged along with being hypnotized probably didn't help her combat these deep emotional scars any. Overall, a very fine effort by Mr.Harris!!! Did I hear that this was the last book in the series? That's too bad ... Maybe its good to get out on top. My two cents (plus change).
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Summary: Page turning gore-fest!
Review: Okay, so it's the weakest of the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, but it's still a mesmerizing read...never dull, often shocking. The gore factor is high and disturbing, but a guilty pleasure nonetheless. Unless you're prepared for a nightmare or two, not the book you'd want to read at bedtime.
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Summary: but i don't want him to have motives!
Review: Like the other two Lecter novels, Hannibal is an excellent suspense story. But where the other two were truly superb, this one is only fair to good. I thought there were two problems in the story.
The lesser of two evils is the way Starling is treated at the end of the story. I was unhappy with the ending, although Harris leaves it unclear whether or not it's really Starling's choice.
The greater problem is the pages and pages Harris spends explaining how and why Dr. Lecter got to be the suave people-eating psychotic we have come to fear and hate and love. This is a Very Bad Thing. We don't need to know anything about Lecter's motivations; he is a better villain if he doesn't have any. That's what made him such a fascinating character to begin with: he's brilliant and athletic and wealthy and charming, and he likes to eat people. We can't dismiss him as insane because he is not. There is absolutely no need for the pop-psychology theory-of-the-week Harris provides. Just as Darth Vader ceases to be evil when he takes off his mask, Lecter ceases to be such a repellent, compelling menace when he is revealed to be merely human. He is a nearly flawless Bad Guy in the first two novels, a concentration of all the evil we are capable of, condensed to solidity, dressed up like a human and walking around in broad daylight. Yet he's a totally believable character, and it terrifies us to imagine that someone like him might actually exist. We ache to look inside his head, if only to reassure ourselves that we are not like him. But actually letting us have a good look destroys all the things that make him a good character. In the first two books, the purity of Lecter's evil stands out against the emotional humanity of Starling and Graham and the conflicted, desperate madness of the serial killers they hunt. Lecter's humanity was never more than skin-deep, and Harris's clumsy attempty to pour human motivations into his skull robs us of a superbly-drawn Malevolence Personified. No more sequels, please, Mr. Harris. Doctor Lecter has left the building.
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Summary: And this little piggie went all the way home--
Review: I still am awe struck. Thomas Harris out does himself. This is by far the hands down best book of this genre I have ever read. You can toss in all those statements: bold twists, tremendously exciting, electric plot, almost painful suspense, etc., and you don't even come close to how wonderful 'Hannibal' is. The book is like great...Chinese food, after thirty minutes you've gone from totally satiated to hungry for more. While Thomas Harris 'tied up' the 'ends' of his 'Hannibal the Cannibal' books, he magically opened up new avenues for future writings on these too-fabulous characters. Please, Thomas Harris, let there be more!
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Summary: Sad
Review: What a major disappointment. Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon were truly great because the author built the suspense and horror with excellent writing, combined with the gruesome acts. With Hannibal, he seems to be just trying to shock us. The characters in the book are almost universally loathsome, but Harris seems to be saying it's okay for for Hannibal to be a monster because he has good taste. He tries to humanize the character and blame his behavior on Nazis, which is laughable and cheap. One expects far more, both from the character and the writer. I read a review that stated that Harris had fallen in love with Hannibal as a character to the detriment of the story. That is so true. The ending is absolutely absurd, so out of keeping with the rest of the book and trilogy that it's utterly unbelievable and obviously designed for shock value. I'm not so easily shocked, especially with so transparent a ploy. Many people have the opinion that the ending is good simply because it took guts and daring on the author's part. I just wish he'd dared to write better.
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Summary: Eeeek!! The ending totally blew my mind!!
Review: This was one wild wrap up; the ending was totally unexpected, totally creepy, and totally fitting. You have to read this, but it will haunt you.
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Summary: Thirsty work, isn't it?
Review: The good Doctor returns for an encore, and Harris actually has us rooting for him, if only because Hannibal is being stalked by a greater monster.Hannibal Lechter is one of the two most memorable villains to come out of contemporary American literature - the other being James Ellroy's Dudley Smith. Until "Hannibal", Dr. Lechter, like Dudley Smith and Dracula, spent most of his time off stage. This is not the case in this book, but Hannibal's mystique remains intact. Harris has served up a most delicious main course his time. Please pass the guava beans and chianti.
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Summary: If I can't get thru the TAPE...
Review: Alright...
Is Thomas Harris going senile or are we really supposed to enjoy this...?
Let's see...This proves BEAUTIFULLY that just because the PLOT is interesting (surviving victim with a vengeance goes out of his way to get back at serial killer; that's just beautifull; probably the only time vengeance seems like a good idea)doesn't mean that it's an interesting read. I just took the book out on audiotape cuz I heard from several reliable sources that the whole sequel [disappointed]...but decided to give it a try, who knows?
Now I'll tell ya, if I can barely get thru the FIRST TAPE, how am I supposed to enjoy the book?
The only really funny thing about the whole thing was listening to a guy with a Southern accent doing a British accent (Thomas Harris has a southern twang to him)...
Then i plodded thru the first chapter of the book, cuz I figured, you know, I wasn't getting anything out of the tape cuz my mind kept wandering and I kept falling asleep.
Nothing different with the book...
I give it no stars if that were possible
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Summary: To tell the true, this book is awful
Review: This book is awful, but not for the descriptions of horror that has, for everything else, in the first part of the book, when Clarice is in action killing Evelda and his gang is a real thriller, you think that you will never put down the book, but when the book goes to Italy is boring and boring and so it keeps.
The less is written in the book is the life of Hannibal, you just know that his sister was eaten by some kind of cannibals in 1940 when their parents where killed in an invasion, but you don't know how he went to jail, how he escaped and why he has an expensive delight.
All the chapters have an introduction to it that has nothing to do with the story of the book, this introduction is at least half page of the chapter, if you skip all the introductions you will have a book of 60 or 70 pages less , and here can I tell you that are 2 or 3 chapters that doesn't belong to the book at all, for example when Margot and Barney went to the gym.
In all the story all the persons are the bad guys, except for Clarice, but Hannibal drug her, so at the end of the book only can win the bad guys, no matter what is your point of view.
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Summary: Hannibal explained
Review: While it's true Clarice was short changed, Hannibal was filled out. This was his book. The title is Hannibal, not Clarice. His was always the more interesting story. Any guy who eats the "free range rude" is alright with me. Yes, Harris turned Hannibal from one of the most repulsive characters in literature into almost a hero. More power to him. It takes some skill to take the honors away from the one character, a good, honest FBI agent and a woman at that and hand them over to a cannibal. The story is scary as [heck] too.
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