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Summary: Recommended
Review: Thankfully this book stays away from Harris' more recently developed penchant for gratuitous descriptions of blood and violence. Black Sunday is well paced, suspenseful and has a very consistent and very believable story line. My only complaint is that character development seems weak. At times we are watching the events unfold without any real attachment to the characters involved. Fortunately, the plot was strong enough to compensate and I was left with a positive impression overall. A fine book.
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Summary: Black Sunday
Review: The basic plot is fascinating. Can an ex-POW mastermine the total destruction of a stadium during the Super Bowl by using a bomb strapped to the bottom of a blimp? Harris tries to go into the psychological developments that would turn a person into a sucide bomber. This book was first published in 1975 but after the events of September 11, 2001, this book has new and eerie significance. Nonetheless, I can't give this book a 10 because the story quickly becomes mired in backstories and character developments only vaguely related to the central plot. I ended up resorting to skipping chapters that didn't directly deal with the main consipirators. If the story had been edited down by about a third, I would have rated it a 5.
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Summary: Super Bowl Sunday
Review: The plot was a bit confusing and the insane characters made the book less likeable, but it was quite suspenseful to see if the guy would blow up the super bowl. I was to scared to watch the real game yesterday - no, not really!
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Summary: This is a truly great book.
Review: The way Harris has of showing each side of the problem, showing the motivation of each character is incredible. This is definately his best book. Each character is sympathetic, and the plot is remarkable. I cryed over both the Jews and the Arabs that were killed. Black Sunday was completely engrosing, from beginning to end.
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Summary: Thomas Harris can write about more than just Hannible
Review: There's definately a lot going on in this story so make sure to keep on your toes while reading. Loaded with action and suspense. Thomas has no problem creating REAL characters in this one. Many readers will compare this book with Tom Clancy's SUM OF ALL FEARS, and I admit there are a couple similarities, and even though I'm a loyal reader of Clancy novals, in my opinion BLACK SUNDAY wins hands down. a must read! William Renny author of LAST CALL
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Summary: Everybody has to take care of security
Review: This is an interesting book, nobody will believe it until it happens, here I have some questions: what's the minimum time to empty a Super bowl stadium? They have an emergency evacuation in every stadium? Does the people know where to run?
I am not saying that the only problem could be from the sky, remember the book "The eleventh commandment".
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Summary: Silence of the Lambs this is not....
Review: This is not even in the same category as silence of the lambs. These disturbed people are far less intriguing and much more predictable than Hannibal Lechter. I thought that the original idea was good, but the most exciting parts are on the back cover. I have read all of Harris' books and this is by far the least compelling of them all. I would not recommend this book as a gripping read at all.
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Summary: Still a great read!
Review: This is the book that began the terrorism genre, and yes, many of the elements have been done to death over the years. (In an odd hommage, in Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears, the terrorists set off a nuclear blast at the Denver Superbowl because they've read Black Sunday!) Still, 26 years after its first publication, it's still one of the best of the lot -- though Nelson DeMille's The Lion's Game is a brilliant updating. I just read it for the fifth time and loved it as much as the first. In The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Lecter tells Agent Starling that Jame Gumb's "pathology is a thousand time more savage" (than the average transsexual). Well, Lecter never doctored blimp pilot Lander. He's one of the great villains in popular fiction, mainly because Harris makes him so comprehensible.
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Summary: An entertaining read... But what's the big deal?
Review: This is the first Thomas Harris novel I have read. I never got around to reading "The Silence of the Lambs" because I didn't want to blow the movie... And I don't plan to read "Hannibal" because I don't want to blow the movie. I enjoyed "Black Sunday" (I'm aware that there's a 1976 film directed by John Frakenheimer, but I figured what the hell.), it's a fast, crisp read. Well drawn characters, suspenseful situations... All that. BUT It's an airport book, and it's dated. The emotional resonance of the conflict is not really timely anymore, all that PLO stuff just isn't very interesting. Also, I'm a bit confused... Thomas Harris has only written 4 novels in 25 years? Why? After this one he took 6 years to write "Red Dragon"? Why? After that he took another 7 years to write "Silence..." Why? And then 10 years to complete "Hannibal" Damn! One would want to compare him to J.D. Salinger or consider him the literature equivalent of, say, Stanley Kubrick or Terence Malick... But the writing doesn't really justify that. This pretty much reads like Tom Clancy or John Grisham and no better than that. I consider other writers (I happen to think that Stephen King is often brilliant) who produce work like this on a yearly basis. Why the hell does Harris take so long to write? Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. For all I know the three Hannibal Lecter novels are highly complex works of "literature", comparable with, say, John Irving or Salman Rushdie... But to be honest, I'm not impressed. "Black Sunday" was good company for me on the plane trip and subsequent subway ride home... There are lots of vivid and exciting action sequences that, depending on the reader's way of visualizing, can compare with many of today's big budget Hollywood action thrillers, and the climax is very well put together. But ultimately, Thomas Harris strikes me as lazy and I fail to see why he has such a fervent cult following. After I've read "Red Dragon" and "Silence of the Lambs" (both made into fine motion pictures), I'll let you know if I've changed my mind.
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Summary: Thought provokotive
Review: This was a great book--it was a nice work of fiction, though slow somtimes. The psycological aspect is incredible, however! It takes you inside the mind of someone that has gone insane, and believe that you are there. It has a lot of climax, and I would reccomend this to anyone that would like a good read! (Esspecially the guy that rated this book a 2 because of literary aspects, yet he can't even spell the word "sentence".
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