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Summary: Don't even think about reading this one
Review: What a waste of time. Harris takes two very interesting characters of Hannibal and Clarice and ruins them. I think Mr. Harris was either hurting for money or was under pressure to write a sequel to "Silence of the lambs" (a very good book), because this book is a poorly pieced together hunk of rubbish. I've read all three books in the Hannibal series and the second, "Silence..." is the only good one. In this book, Harris should have focused less on the little insignificant details that have little to with the plot and put that time into developing a plot that was worth something. Let me say this about the ending, it almost seems like Harris is intentionally writing an ending to make his readers mad. This ending is so stupid Harris seems to be saying "HERE-I wrote a stupid sequel for you so leave me alone!" Avoid this book as if it were the plague. Shame on you Thomas Harris for ever writing this.
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Summary: disappointing
Review: Hannibal reaffirms my long held personal theory that most contemporary authors have only 1-3 (maybe 4) good books in their careers. ie: Mario Puzo & The Godfather-Stephen King had maybe 4. While I thoroughly enjoyed Black Sunday, Red Dragon and even managed to find some literary salvation in Silence of The Lambs, it is clear (at least to me) that with Hannibal, Mr Harris has, like his aforementiond contemporaries, finally touched the bottom of the barrell. It will be interesting to see if he tries to redeem himself with a sequel.
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Summary: Don't buy the audio tapes
Review: The book gets 4 stars, the audio a zero. One of the main characters has a speech impediment and the reader has taken too much poetic license-ie. you can't understand a word he is saying.After the first 4 painful tapes (we were driving from Dallas to St. Louis) we had to go by the book to see what we missed and to finish the book. Tapes were quickly returned for a refund. As readers of the book, you already know that Mason's "speech" was properly written in the book. But the tapes- "bhey er erribul"
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Well worth the long wait after Silence. True, Silence was a great novel (as were Red Dragon and Black Sunday); but Harris gets credit by not rehashing the same thing. The insight into Hannibal's character is intriguing and fascinating. The evilness and hypocrisy in this book is vivid. I enjoyed the whole novel; those who have not anticipated what they wanted to read, not what the author had devised.
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Summary: What the ... Hey
Review: I've just wasted one day of my life reading what was meant to be the long awaited sequel to Red Dragon and SOTL. How disappointing it was to finally get to the end, after reading all of that banal claptrap about Florence (who cares about Florence) and feel like you've been cheated.
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Summary: Dreadful and tedious.
Review: A book I looked forward to reading was a MAJOR disappointment! At no time was it believable, therefore it was never even mildly frightening. The premise was ridiculous. The execution was even worse. And the ending....don't even get me started on how bad that was! Don't waste your time.
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Summary: Strange Book, Implausible Ending, Poor Editing
Review: I waited for the sequel to "Silence of the Lambs" for 10 years, and I suppose nothing could live up to my expectations. However, I did NOT expect Clarice Starling's bizarre behavior at the end of Harris's work; in fact, there was no motivation for it that I could find in the book to justify it. Unless, perhaps, Dr. Lecter performed a lobotomy on her, without our knowing it? What a major disappointment... The reader is provided with a complex villain in Mason Verger, however.
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Summary: An utter disappointment.
Review: I had to smile sadly when I read someone's review for this book; they were upset that others had "slammed" it. I know it's upsetting when one reads a book they love, and then finds that others dislike it. I'm afraid I'm one of the slammers. After RED DRAGON and SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, I thought this book was just dreadful. What amazed me is that Harris had apparently waited eleven years to write this dismal performance. I bought this book before it was on the Bestseller list, and buying books in hardback is really a luxury for me, so just let me say that this was an EXPENSIVE disappointment. The first 55 chapters were background. How utterly dull. And the chapters on Hannibal in Italy sounded like a traveloque, complete with "Italian words" dropping. It's worse than name-dropping to drop as many unfamiliar words AND types of wines as Harris did in this novel. If I'd wanted that, I'd have purchased UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN. By the time I'd arrived at chapter 55 and could see that FINALLY some action was coming, I was already utterly disgusted, and not one bit surprised that in the "Acknowledgements." the majority went to experts on Italian life and culture. I suppose it's hard to make a cannibal very scary after Jeffrey Dahmer, but if he was attempting to make Lecter frightening, Harris failed terribly. When I'd finished the book, I hardly knew what to think. The ending was so incredibly implausible. Apparently, Mr. Harris had decided to write a travelogue with a fairytale ending. The whole time I read this book, in my mind was the fact that long before it was written, or at least published, the stars of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS had already publicized their interest in doing a sequel. Obviously, it was on Harris's mind as well. This read like a 1930's version of a horror story. Where were the dancers?
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Summary: How could this happen after Silence of the Lambs?
Review: What a disappointment! I had been eagerly awaiting the continuation of the Hannibal Lecter story. What a let down! The plot was completely unbelieveable and the character development was nothing like this book's predecessor. I wish I hadn't been in such a hurry to get this book as soon as it was released. My only hope is we DON'T see this weak story on the silver screen. Silence of the Lambs was one of the BEST adaptations I have ever seen from a book.
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Summary: I wanted all the characters to die much more quickly.
Review: Having read Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs, I eagerly anticipated this book. However, while I liked Harris' writing style as much as ever, I was thoroughly disgusted with the content. The only character that I cared for at all was Clarice Starling, and she was even getting a bit tiresome by the end.
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