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Summary: ONe of the worst books I've ever read
Review: This book was horrible...Horrible. The plot was exagerated and disgutsing, the characters were unbelievable. It was HUGE a letdown after reading Silence of the Lambs.
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Summary: No. 3 on my list of all-time worst books I've read
Review: It's not No. 1 on my all-time worst book list because I have read Anne Rivers Siddons' "Peachtree Road" and Alexadra Ripley's "Scarlet". I was extremely disappointed in this "Silence of the Lambs" sequel. The author has turned the fabulous Clarice Starling into a buffoon, and it goes downhill from there.
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Summary: DULL book with great ending!
Review: I disagree about Hannibal's ending, I loved it! the first two thirds of the book were so excruiatingly boring though, that I can't recomend it to anyone. Read Silence of The Lambs and Red Dragon instead!
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Summary: Great Start, Flat Ending
Review: This book starts off great. Harris does everything but the predicatble in this story. The story starts seven years after Starling's apprehension of Buffalo Bill, and you may be surprised to learn that her career in the FBI has been less than stellar.Everyone in the book is searching for Hannibal, the FBI, Starling, and a former victim of Lecture. The beginning of the book is beautifully written. Some of the description of the characters and the locations (especially Florence) are breath-taking. The ending of the story is entirely unbelievable and disappointing. I would have a better time believing in the tooth fairy.
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Summary: good but not that good
Review: I did not buy the reason why he was this why or the ending. dissappointing.
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Summary: Excellent Thriller
Review: Hannibal is the first book in the trilogy that I read. It is by far my favorite. I love the Italian bits! I could not put the book down. I love the ending but then I love to cook and always wanted to visit South America. I then read the other two in sequence and though I enjoyed both, especially Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal is still tops!
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Summary: Morally reprehensible/an ending that sickened me
Review: Although "Hannibal" draws you in with a sophisticated tone and a revisiting of characters held very dear to fans, it is, by far, one of the most nihilistic stories I have ever read. This novel has the moral center of a frog. Harris' message in "Silence of the Lambs," seemed to me to be this: That a healthy respect and understanding of evil is not only better than exploiting it, than containing it, but it is even better than fearing it. And that, in the end, despite our fear, it is worth getting near evil in order to stop it because, even if you don't stop it, by grappling with it, you may gain the self-realization necessary to stop it next time. But sadly, Harris has truly lost his way with "Hannibal," and has, in my mind, completely turned his first message on its head. In "Hannibal," Mr. Harris seems to be saying that killing people is not only not more evil than selling out someone's career, or selling out a murderer, it is also not even more evil than proportional revenge (which, anyone in law will tell you, is justice). I could have handled the almost cartoonish caricatures of good, agent Clarice Starling, and evil, murderer Hannibal Lecter, if a more appropriate ending had been forthcoming. I found this story entirely disgusting. And, in case anyone thinks I'm a bitter old nun or something, I'm a man the Starling character's age.
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Summary: Not as good as I thought it would be
Review: Several subplots blur the true story of Hannibals continous run from the FBI and his interest in Clarice Starling. The ending did not seem to leave much room for another Hannibal novel.
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Summary: Ridiculous
Review: The only reason I'm giving this book two stars instead of one is that I was able to finish it, which I suppose counts for something. But I'm really begrudging Harris that star, because this book was simply awful. It's difficult even to begin describing what's wrong with this book, there are so many things. First of all, the writing is clumsy and pedestrian. Second of all, the characters and dialogue are wooden and ridiculous. The "explanation" for why Lector is the way he is, is sentimental kitsch. Harris has turned Lector from a credible anti-hero to some sort of ridiculous combination of Superman and Thurston Howell III. I particularly like the part where the scholars are "wowed" by Lector's ridiculous lecture about Dante, which shows less scholarship than the introduction for a cheap paperback edition of the Inferno. Really the biggest reason to read this book is if you have a healthy taste for the absurd and you like to pick apart bad writing. My advice is to read Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs and steer clear of this stinker! It will destroy any respect you might have had for Harris! (By the way, Martin Amis wrote a wonderfully scathing review of this book in the premiere edition of Talk - I'm glad I had read Hannibal simply so I could fully savor Amis's attack.)
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Summary: Different
Review: Thomas Harris has written someting completely different from Silence, and maybe that's what has put everybody off. I am very happy Mr. Harris did not "give the public what they want"; once an author begins to do that s/he has run out of ideas. The ending, while fantastacal, is obviously imaginative nonetheless, and for me, haunting.
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