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Summary: Good beginning, horrible ending
Review: I just finished reading Hannibal today, and I am very dissapointed. After reading and watching Silence of the Lambs, I expected that Hannibal would be a very enjoyable book. I was certainly wrong. First, the deaths of characters from the original books ruined the story in itself. It would have been a much better book if the ending had been different. If Harris write another sequel, it better start out with Clarice waking up, and saying the words "Wow, It was all a dream"
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Summary: A wasted read.
Review: The sensationalism competed to strongly with the plot. So much of it was distracting and unnecessary. The end was tatally unbelievable and I never did find out what "chocalate" had to do with anything.
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Summary: Wanted more, but got less.
Review: After reading Silence and Red Dragon I had expected a thrilling, insightful read. Unfortunately, this is not how I would describe Hannibal. I couldn't wait to be done with this book so I could read something else! The entire book feels forced--Hannibal is stripped of his mystery and nothing very interesting remains. I did enjoy the ending--but it could not make up for the other 200 pages.
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Summary: Wasted Eye-Strain
Review: I've read some bad over-hyped novels in my time, but this one really takes the cake.Harris' first 2 novels in the series, Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs, demonstrated a singular brilliance that upstaged the rest of the genre. I anticipated a great series evolving from the Lector storyline. Unfortunately, the publication of Hannibal invalidated that prediction and placed it within same strata of accuracy reserved for the National Enquirer psychics. Was Harris on serious medication when he wrote the ending? Hey, I ingested a lot of drugs in my misspent youth, but I could never conceive of something that twisted during my most altered states of consciousness. OK, for sheer gore factor alone, this book will appeal to the more sophomoric mindset. But if you demand plot, intriguing characters, and an ending that doesn't blow chunks, avoid this book. Should you see Hannibal on display at your local bookstore, give it a wide berth. Avoid associating with anyone who liked this novel. Cancel your subscriptions to any periodicals that gave this waste if ink and paper favorable reviews. Write letters to Harris and the publisher criticizing the book's release. Ask Congress to draft a resolution condeming Hannibal as the biggest piece of excrement to hit the book market since the latest Bret Easton Ellis novel. Convince the United Nations to do the same. And if Tom Harris publishes a sequel to Hannibal, be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Summary: Why didn't he just write a screenplay?
Review: After more than 9 years waiting to find out what happened to the horrible Hannibal Lecter, I was put off and disappointed with the writing which is so obviously the basis for a screenplay (description of the entrance scenes into Hannibal's rooms is all stage direction and direction for painters and lighting folks! I have not gotten past the first 150 pages and find it hard to drive myself forward. Unfortunately having peeked at disappointing ending in others comments, I am not sure I would want to continue. He'll be lucky to get a maximum caliber actor like Anthony Hopkins to reprise the role!
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Summary: Over-hyped crap!
Review: I really can't believe I was roped in by the hype. It seems as though Hollywood was calling the shots on this movie as opposed to an accomplished writer! The beginning was slow boring. You may give him the excuse that he is building charater and atmosphere but for how long!; The middle: Well he just keeps building - you start wondering whether the story will actually get anywhere. And the ending! My god! What a pathetic cop-out! Everyone lives happily ever after! I've never subected myself to the ordeal of reading anything as bad as this in my whole life. Don't buy this book unless you're interested in insulting your own intelligence!
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Summary: I don't think his heart was in this book.
Review: I was most disappointed with this book! It reads like someone besides Thomas Harris wrote the book. Clarice seemed more like a snippy whiner than the character Harris created in "Silence". I think she had more scruples than Harris gave her in "Hannibal". Would not recomend!
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Summary: Absolutely Riveting, Excellent!
Review: The ending was...incredible, and certainly worth the wait. It caught me completely off guard, and provided a nice conclusion to the whole saga, while leaving the door slightly cracked open for a continuation. Read this book! You won't regret it.
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Summary: Pure garbage
Review: This book is one of the worst I have ever read. The ending was so implausible. Mr Harris has turned what was once a facinating charactor in to a supernatural demon who cannot be killed. what crap!
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: This book is not what I, and many others expected. To those who read and enjoyed Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs, this will represent a dramatic departure. Gone are tales of a brilliant and efficient FBI; we are left here with a corrupt FBI that is in bed with evil private citizens. Also gone are all of the crisp descriptions of modern forensic criminology that Harris used to love to write. The book succeeds by inverting the basic structure of RD and SOTL: In both of those, Lecter helped an FBI agent find a serial killer. Here, with Lecter on the loose and Clarice Starling on the case, a second madman must be introduced to provide the third side of the triangle. The fact that the mad Mason Verger (a lecter victim himself) is essentially a "prisoner" due to his injuries, furthers the inversion of the prior two books. Overall, an interesting read and a brave departure for Harris. The ending is a huge disappointment and I doubt that it could ever be done in a filmed version, at least not a rated R or even an NC-17 version.
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