Hannibal

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Summary: Give me 3 days back
Review: As far as I'm concerned, my sister and Harris owe me 3 days of my life back. Loved both the other books - hated this one. My sister hated it as well - had me read it just to confirm her dislike. In fact, you will not just be disappointed, but characters you've liked since Red Dragon and Silence get ruined. We think he wrote this just to screw up Hollywood. DO NOT READ THIS. Reread the other 2.

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Summary: This should be called, "The Violence of the Sham"
Review: Sorry, but I side with the nay-sayers on this one.

It starts off so promising, with Starling's fall from grace, the inroduction of a villian as evil as the Bad Doctor himself, and a really strong plot strand set in Florence.

But then it devolves into voyeurism, camp melodrama, and Jacobean silliness that ultimately crash lands on an ending so preposterous that no amount of psychobabble could justify it. If Harris was ultimately trying to marginalize the characters he established with such clarity and vigor in the first two books, he succeeded beyond his wildest dreams in "Hannibal."

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Summary: Hated Hannibal
Review: After Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal was a let-down. Most of the story line was very difficult to follow and I expected much more. The parts of the book that took place in Italy were poorly written.

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Summary: Could have been a lot better
Review: Inside this book is a great story, but Harris spends WAAAAAYY too much time on critiquing and analyzing Italian art & history down to the very last inch. (WARNING: IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK DO NOT CONTINUE TO READ THE REST OF MY REVIEW)

I liked how Clarice and Hannibal fell in love, but I didn't like how she had to become a cannibal like him (as he gave up crime at the end). Anyway, an average book that isn't a can't-miss thing.

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Summary: what was harris smoking?
Review: Harris did not write this book. If he did he had better hang it up. this was one of the worst I have ever read. the only reason I gave it one star is because you would not except a Zero.

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Summary: IS THIS ACTUALLY SELLING!
Review: I was so anxious to read Hannibal prior, but now... This has to be the most disappointing experience in my life. Ok, overstatement. Nevertheless, I would rather have not spent my money on this book. Paperback, yes... I'd rather read instructions on how to use a chia pet. We're all critics, aren't we?

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Summary: Horrible
Review: I realize this is fiction, but even so the story is unbelievable - and unbelievably awful in content. I found myself grimacing through much of it - not a pleasant way to spend an afternoon reading. Red Dragon and Silence were fine reads. This is horrible.

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Summary: Witches' Brew
Review: Hannibal is the third installment in Thomas Harris' retelling of The Beauty and The Beast. They are Clarice Starling and Dr. Hannibal Lecter. All of us who delighted in Red Dragon (1981) and The Silence of the Lambs (1988) have waited far too long for this book. This is it -- a scary and dazzling journey through the catacombs of a dark dream. Dr Hannibal Lecter is irresistible. A brilliant psychiatrist with interests in anthropology, linguistics, mathematics, music, and things medieval. A man of elegant tastes, he plays the clavier and is partial to Scarlatti and Bach's Goldberg Variations. A gourmet who likes tartufi bianchi , green Gironde oysters, Anatolian figs, Scottish red-legged partridges and pate de foie gras. Among wines he prefers Chateau Petrus bordeaux and Batard-Montrachet. He drives either a Bentley or a supercharged Jaguar. He lectures on Dante's Inferno and Judas Iscariot. When we meet him now, after an eleven-year hiatus, he is the translator and curator of the fabled Capponi Library in Florence, a job he won by " demonstrating to the Belle Arti Committee an extraordinary linguistic capability, sight-translating medieval Italian and Latin from the densest Gothic black-letter manuscripts." He created the vacancy though , by removing the former curator, " a simple process requiring a few seconds' work on the old man and a modest outlay for two bags of cement -- but once the way was clear he won the job fairly." He is, also, a cannibal. And a killer. Hannibal is witches' brew , brimming over with the asafoetida of the human spirit.

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Summary: Gruesome is right..the writing, that is!
Review: What a disappointment! I, along with so many others, anxiously waited for this book (pre-ordered on Amazon.com, of course). What a waste! I am no stranger to thrillers, but the gory detail was so intense it was difficult to slog through. The worst part was the ending; the Clarice Starling we respected from the first book never would have done what she was written into at the end of this book. Not only an absolute waste of the reader's time and money, but an insult to the quality of "Silence of the Lambs"

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Summary: Harris Falls Prey to Hannibal
Review: Thomas Harris is a very skillful writer who told an insipid story. That is the sole compliment I can muster for his latest effort. I walked away with the distinct impression I had wasted my time reading a book in which the author became so enamored of his own creation (Hannibal) that he let the storyline spin out of control. Note that nothing bad actually happens to Hannibal. Like an evil Brer Rabbit, he is too quick, too clever. As Harris becomes reluctant to harm Hannibal in any way, he turns his pen on Clarice Starling and renders her wanton, silly and superficial -- so much so that she is no longer recognizable as the same character from Silence of the Lambs. I regret to say that as a writer of talent, Harris has slipped several notches in my esteem since his first triumph. I was very disappointed.