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Summary: Excellent!
Review: This story is fast-paced, interesting, and scary. It takes you on a trip, where you find Hannibal living the finer life, solidifying his brilliance as both a killer and an intellectual. It takes you back to the character that is Clarice Starling -- forever righteous and dedicated federal servant. It introduces Hannibal's enemies, all avaricious characters lacking in dignity and loyalty, who ultimately deserve his wrath. Hannibal is the hero of this story. You'll find yourself cheering for the darkside.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: It is clear that Thomas Harris had a movie deal. And that he needed a book to fulfill the movie deal. So he slapped this unworthy work together. A very disappointing follow up to Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs.
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Summary: Im with Jodie on this one
Review: Although the setting of this book was much more appealing than either Silence or Red Dragon, it cant compete on all other counts. Even Rome and its museums cant save this book from mediocrity.The best thing about Harris' previous books were the absolutely loathsome villans, Dolarhyde and Lecter. Here I get the feeling that we are supposed to hope that Lecter will eventually prevail. A bit much to ask considering the man is a psychotic cannibal!! Mason Verger is the best character in the book and Gary Oldman played him perfectly in the film. In fact this entire book seems to have been written solely for the big screen. Man eating pigs may make great cinema but they are totally out of place here. And poor Barney, reduced to selling Lecter memorabilia! Im with Jodie on this one. One of the most anticipated books in years, its just plain disappointing.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: This book isn't in the same league as Red Dragon or Silence Of The Lambs. I mean, let's get real here: Hannibal Lecter kidnaps Clarice Starling and she ends up falling in love with him??? It's no wonder Jodie Foster refused to reprise the role she made famous in Silence Of The Lambs.
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Summary: Encore please!
Review: As thrilled as I was by Thomas Harris's "red Dragon", which interduces Dr.Hannibal Lecter, and by the even more thrilled with "Silence of the Lambs", I can not tell you how much better this is then the oher two!
Harris has a amazing eye for detail, from the classical music to the even more beautifull detail to the bottles of wine Dr.Lecter loves, he captures it all with such perfection, its almost scary! the way in which this book is written, there can be no "slow parts". For there is always something happening. From the time Starling gets into the FBI undercover van, to the very last word!
I've heard so many people tell me that this is a lame sequel to a great film, but its not! Think of it as the next part in a great story, the end not yet in sight.
I love to think of this book as a Thriller/Romance/Horror, the first and last details need no other words, but I feel that, although the diffrent ages, Starling and Lecter are growing a lot closer, even if the movie is vastly diffrent. I shall not spoil the ending though!
I pray for Harris to continue this wonderfull story soon, as my patice may not stand another 10 years!
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Summary: It's the Love Story From Hell
Review: "Hannibal" was good with plenty of technical details, and author Harris gives us just a morsel of Dr. Lecter's background, just enough to make us want more. However, I can kinda see why Foster refused to return to the role of Clarice Starling. If you read the ending of Harris' novel, you'll know why too. Is it really plausible for such a monster as Dr. Lecter to have warm and fuzzy tender feelings for his Darling Starling? And is it plausible for a woman such as Starling to do what she did at the end of the novel? Put together a sleek, stylish cannibal with refined manners and a warm spot for another human being, and a young FBI agent with a ruined career and an Electra complex and you come up with the love story from Hell. It's actually a bit romantic in a sick, twisted kind of way. Oh well. Read the book and see for yourselves. Bon appetit!!
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Summary: Great follow up to Silence of the Lambs
Review: I must admit that I had never read Silence of the Lambs. I had seen the movie, and had not taken the effort to go out and get a copy of the book. I was browsing the bookstore one day, and saw a hardcover edition of Hannibal. I picked it up and flipped through a little. This novel grabbed me from the first. I had to make myself stop looking at pages as not to ruin the story when I would read it. I bought both Silence of the Lambs (which I thoroughly enjoyed) and Hannibal that same day. This book picks up where we were left Dr Hannibal Lecter and Agent Starling. I was quite surprised by the direction of the book and the choices the characters made at times, but afterwards, when I would read a little further on, I would catch myself saying, "Okay, I can see how that would happen.".
Overall, I must say a very good read.
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Summary: One of the best thrillers ever
Review: This novel takes large leaps into the ironic and the absurd, this novel takes risks. Instead of simply writing another installment to the Red Dragon, Silence series, he's pulled the carpet out from under those books and has really jabbed somthing deep and cold into the reader's eye.
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Summary: Buon appetito...
Review: Thomas Harris has done a startling thing; he has written a novel that is about it's characters. In so many books and movies these days, it is too easy to see the hand of it's creator manipulating events. It is too easy to discount the events as arbitrary to the characters. It is too easy to pull a "surprise ending" out of a hat for a momentary thrill, when, by doing so, the creator of the story renders all brain work irrelevant, and the "surprise ending" defeats it's own purpose. Not so here. Harris is one of those rare writers who is able to let his characters be who they are. Consider: Mason Verger wants Hannibal Lecter tortured and killed. Clarice Starling wants to be a good cop. Paul Krendler wants a seat in Congress. Inspector Pazzi of the Italian Questura wants respect and a decent life. Hannibal Lecter wants to live in the lap of luxury, occasionally eating those who offend him. And Margot Verger wants a child. Sounds simple, doesn't it? It is. And yet by turning these characters loose on each other, they tell a story that is part Gothic horror, part investigative crime, and part psychological chess, in which some characters get what they want, some don't, and some get eaten. A note on the character of Hannibal Lecter: it is a tribute to Harris' writing that he can provide bits of Lecter's past and still not demystify him, that he can give the monster a soul and make us like him while not making a single excuse for the horrible things he does. In fact, it is the lack of apology that makes Lecter likeable. Unlike many people, he has found his place in the world, and if the rest of the world doesn't like his position, he is still not willing to give it up. There is a part in all of us that is able to feel a kind of mean glee, and Hannibal Lecter, more than any character, embodies that part of humanity. Much has been made of the validity of the ending of this book. I believe it fits with the story, and that's all that really matters. Harris simply sat back and let Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling decide things between themselves, and if the solution they came up with is not entirely acceptable to us, well, solutions between people that are not us rarely are acceptable. Clarice and Hannibal, I wish you well.
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Summary: Strong open, falls towards end
Review: This book was ok. Thats all i can really think of because i thought the first part (mostly the italian scenes) were great. I read through them in no time at all. Then as the rest of the book played i soon discovered that it was not up to the same standard that the rest of Thomas Harris' books are. It was worth reading, and i almost gave it 4 stars, but just couldn't after being so disapointed with the second half.
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