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Summary: Stink, stank, stunk
Review: I guess I'm still trying to figure out the ridiculous ending to the book. Maybe I just don't get how this would ever happen. The story line up till the end was somewhat believable and at points graphically gory and morose, but I think Harris has been reading too many long-winded Steven King novels. There are a couple of parts of the book that were intense and worth reading a couple times over, but too many pages in between them.Although, Harris' the "Red Dragon" is still one of the best and most horrifying books I've ever read.
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Summary: This book is BRILL!!!But
Review: I have just finshed Haniibal and i can honestly say that it is one of the best books i have ever read! I think it is almost as good as silence of the lambs. The way Harris has built the relationship between Leture and teh detective is really good but i feel that the ending lacks a bit of originality.
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Summary: What does it take to be truly evil?
Review: Those expecting Dr. Lecter to be brought to justice get what they expect--but not in a form they're comfortable with. Harris asks us, "What is evil?" and the answers he comes up with have already made lots of people uncomfortable. There have already been more than 1,500 reviews at this site--just buy the damned book and know that whether you love it or hate it you've been witness to a cultural phenomenon.
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Summary: BREAK OUT THE LIVER AND FAVA BEANS!
Review: DR. LECTER RETURNS IN THIS LONG ANTICIPATED SEQUEL THAT OF COURSE ALL OF US WANT TO READ! I THOUGHT TAHT A SEQUEL TO THE ORIGINAL STORY WOULD BE A BAD IDEA, BUT HARRIS WRITES AN EXCELLENT STORY THAT GIVES YOU EVERYTHING THAT YOU WANT TO READ AND LEAVES YOU WITH AN ENDING THAT WILL LEAVE YOU THINKING FOR WEEKS AFTER. DON'T MISS THIS GREAT SEQUEL!
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Summary: Ruined the whole experience
Review: I gave this two stars because the first few hundred pages werean enjoyable read, although not nearly as well written or well plottedas SOTL. The ending was so disappointing that it effectively ruined the whole trilogy for me, and I will never be able to enjoy the first two books the same way again. I'm going to try as hard as I can to forget that this book ever existed. Some of the people who actually liked it told me to go back and rethink the book in light of the ending. What Harris does to Starling is even worse than what the FBI did. A profoundly sexist book (and I'm a man!) Also I like a good bottle of wine now and then and consider myself to be a cultured person and I found Harris's literary masturbation in Florence insufferable. I wish I could turn back time and unread this bloated waste of time.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Disappointing. I recently read the book "Red Dragon". I found that to be a great page turner. So, What about Hanibal? Starts off great! Had me hooked from the first chapter, only to be let down with the remainder of the book. What was meant to be a shock for the readers turned out to be uncharacteristic of Harris and unimaginative. It seems as if the Lecter/Starling Saga ends with little creativity and a lot of screenplay.
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Summary: what a crushing disappointment
Review: What happened to you, Mr. Harris? Are you the same author who wrote Red Dragon & Silence of the Lambs? This is execrable work from someone who trailblazed a new genre. Here's hoping you will find your path (and humanity) again.
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Summary: Even only one star is too many...
Review: I think Thomas Harris must have hired someone else to write this trashy, blabbermouth novel. It sometimes reads like he only wrote the first few chapters, then had some insane fan write everything else. Harris spends way too many pages describing places and things that don't hold the reader's interest, and providing gruesome imagery that is totally unnecessary. Not enough plot and too much scenery makes a pretty dull book. Harris seems to want to cast Lecter as the 007 of serial killers, and it's just rediculous! I don't like the character. We weren't supposed to like the character. Why not do the logical thing and bring Will Graham back out of retirement to re-capture Lecter? Harris has revised his own history here so that Hannibal only killed demented weirdos, and only did it because of his traumatic childhood. I'd like to hear from Mr. Harris himself on this one, because I have a sly suspicion that he only wrote this book to point out a major flaw in readers of his material: they're rooting for the bad guy, and that's not right. Want to read a good book? Try any of Harris' other novels, and avoid this one like the plague. I'd rather have been left hanging; so to speak.
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Summary: Sigh ...
Review: Just finished this book about an hour ago. Read all 480+ in 2 days. Now, don't take that fact that I finished it so quickly to mean that it was good; I read so fast so I could hurry up and get through it. About the only good thing I can say about it is that it is set mostly in my favorite part of the world, Italy. A good time to read this book is if you stuck in a hospital bed (as I was) and have nothing else to read ... IMO.
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Summary: An unadulterated piece of crap
Review: Not only is it a terrible book in its own right, but it also manages to tear down everything that the author built in the first novel. It reminded me of seeing a really bad sequel, like Mission Impossible or Highlander 2. When authors like Mr. Harris write novels, they are building a mythology in their readers' minds. The reader natually expects characters to behave a certain way and for certain things to happen to them. Examples: Luke Skywalker would never turn to the dark side, Mad Max will always end up as roadkill at the end his movies, and Dirty Harry would never take a bribe. When the writers go against these basic rules that have been established (in this case by Mr. Harris himself), the reader ends up feeling betrayed. Thats exactly the feeling I got from reading Hannibal. Not to mention the fact that the novel was totally irresponsible, from a moral point of view. Mr. Harris seems to be telling us that wanton acts of psychotic cruelty are ok as long as the perpetrater is "cool" and compelling. Where's the accountability? In "The Silence of the Lambs" I accepted the fact that Lecter got away because I naturally I expected a sequel. Sorry, if Mr. Harris writes another continuation, I'll skip that one. It took Mr. Harris 7 or 8 years to write Hannibal. I wonder how long it would have taken him to write a good book.
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