Rating:  Summary: couldn't wait for the next chapter!! Review: i love it, hard to put down, my hats off to Mr.Harris , i'm truly in love with Hannible and starling. The ending was ingenious. I can't wait for the next book!!!!!!!
Rating:  Summary: Disappointing Review: I feel Mr. Harris tried his very best to be outrageously decadent. He succeeded in making his book an outrageously funny black comedy. His other books were very suspenseful and daring with one of his characters being canabalistic. This time that roll was given to the pigs. I feel this story went over the edge and had no redeeming qualities, not even the pretense of an art history major who just returned from his first visit to Italy. Mason Verger and his sister were both totally unbelievable characters. I do think the ending was very weak and was only there to leave the door open for the future little hannibal cannibals. Sorry Tom, I think you got too greedy with this one and just rushed it.
Rating:  Summary: A Major Disappointment Review: Hannibal is one of the worst books I've ever read. I couldn't put Silence of the Lambs down; conversely, Hannibal is so gratuitously graphic and revolting that I had to put it down numerous times. A major disappointment. Don't waste your time and money on this one. Too horrible for words.
Rating:  Summary: Horror to the max with a first class ending. Review: There is not much I can say regarding the book, other than I coulnd't have done it better. Bravo for harris. I myself would love to portray clarice in theis sequel!!!! A definite must read.Thank you for a great piece of art.
Rating:  Summary: Over-done Review: As I was reading this book I was reminded of musicians that have lost their magic and try to over-compensate by hiding behind way over-produced recordings. I did enjoy learning a bit more about what drove Dr. Lecter, but was generally unexcited about everything else. I couldn't put his other books down, this one took me two weeks to plod through.
Rating:  Summary: SAVE YOUR MONEY! Review: What in the world Thomas Harris was thinking when he wrote this book is beyond me. I loved Silence of the Lambs and the Red Dragon, but I forced myself to finish this one. (It took me a month to read this book) I can not put into words what I disliked, there was so much. About the characters, Mason Verger..who ate his own face and survived (yeah right) to the cop in Italy, there was not one socially redeeming quality among them. Then at the end, Harrris further insults our intelligence by having Clarice Starling cohabitating with Dr. Lecter. I really hated this book!!! I am willing to bet the movie will be a long time coming. But it will have to be better than the book!
Rating:  Summary: Weak, sophomoric sequel with a anticlimactic ending Review: I eagerly anticipated reading this book after reading his brilliant Silence of the Lambs. In Lambs he very cleverly and completely developed Clarice Starling's character. In Hannibal, he made her a two dimensional character easily duped by Lecter. I felt the ending was as terrible an ending I could have imagined. I think Harris is in love with the character he created and this clouded his normally excellent writing and plot flow. The book began very well but after Starling's career was halted by Krendler, thereafter book seemed to have been written by another author. It is weak and uninspiring. If you loved Lambs, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK.
Rating:  Summary: Fascinating end Review: Anyone who has read previous books by Thomas Harris has to read this thriller.. It beats all his others but maintains the same characters in this story so he has you saying oh so that's so and so from the other book. Blends beautifully from Silence of the Lambs. I highly recommend this book to lovers of mystery and suspense.. I enjoyed it. The ending was a real surprise!
Rating:  Summary: Excellent read, and a fitting end to the trilogy. Review: I'm not sure I understand why so many people disliked this book, except that many seem to want Hollywood-type endings. However, those type of endings are near the bottom of the quality scale. It scares me somewhat that most reviewers didn't like the book because of the way it ended. Personally, I think they need to broaden their horizons a little bit, get out more, see the world..... There's not much to dislike about 'Hannibal', except for the fact that it will be difficult to turn it into a film (because of the ending). The writing was crisp, to the point, and the characters engaging. Unlike the first two novels in the series, which were about the hunts for serial killers, this one is about Hannibal Lector and Starling - period. Which is refreshing - why do yet another serial killer novel, a genre that's been done to death? Found it difficult to put down. The finale is - different - but fitting and gutsy. A good finish (sad to say) to the saga. There's nothing to stop Harris from bringing Hannibal Lector back, of course, but that would probably be a mistake.
Rating:  Summary: A brilliant sequel to Silence of the Lambs! Review: Very few books capture your imagination and attention the way Harris does in Hannibal. I found Hannibal the best of the three Lecter works--hands down! The best fiction I have read...period.
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