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Summary: If I could rate this book as less than one star I would.
Review: No way could this book ever get an average of three stars. Don't do it Anthony Hopkins or Jodie. Unless you need the money as Thomas Harris obviously did. Thank God I discouraged as many people as I could from buyong it Loved SOTL but after this ?book? don't think I'll ever watch the movie again. So let"s see if this gets printed
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Summary: DISAPPOINTING !!
Review: major letdown...highly improbable and the ending is absolutelyasinine. Save your money - or if you must have it, buy mine fortwo-bits. A real pity, too - Harris's previous efforts were real page-turners...this one is just his way of getting a payday.
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Summary: The Lambs are screaming.
Review: For all of those complaining about the ending of Hannibal, I just have this to say. Are you upset because your brain has been pumped so full of Hollywood cliches and formula bestsellers, where the characters are paper thin and the plots are predictable, that you can't handle it when you are surprised by an ending and you actually have to THINK about the motives, intent, and psychology of the characters. The prose in Hannibal was full of poetic images and insight. Harris has played a joke on all of you worshippers of American cliche. The book is not about some serial killer, but it is about challenging our notions on what is good and what is evil, and about the defamation of Women in the 20th century. It's brilliant. Reading the reviews here has shown me that Thomas Harris has kept all of you lambs screaming. It's beautiful.
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Summary: very, very disappointing sequel
Review: A terribly disappointing effort that in no way measures up to either of its predecessors. Grotesque without being suspenseful. Proves the truth of Arendt's observation about the banality of evil. Save your money.
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Summary: Not credible
Review: The story is simply unbelieveable, especially the end, as many readers have pointed out. Actually it could easily have been a bit MORE gruesome - why did Hannibal kill the fellow after eating half his brains? Why not just put his skull-top back on and turn him loose (still scrape the plates back into it if he wanted to get his jollies that way)? And there is NOT a large gypsy population in Australia. Clarice is unattractive from beginning to end. Mason Verger is impossible to visualise.I am grateful to the reader from Oxford of 13 August for putting me onto "Telepath's Dance" in "The Man-Kzin Wars." As he says, a much better "Beauty and the Beast" story.
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Summary: this book is boring
Review: I could not even get through the excerpt it was so boring
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Summary: STINKOLA! A huge disappointment for a Harris fan-ME!
Review: Several reviewers have beat me to the best lines about how bad this book is....but it is amazing that any book could be so gross and so boring at the same time. I loved Silence of the Lambs and was afraid that the sequel would not measure up....but the ending to this book is soooo awful and downright silly I don't know if to laugh or cry! I will definitely not be lined up for any more Harris books if this is the future of his writing. Save your money and time folks..there are a lot of books more worthy than this hunk of junk.
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Summary: You won't put this book down!
Review: I was petrified that this would be a disappointment, and clearly, the story and the ending are not to everyones liking. However, I found myself captivated, excited and amused by how the story unravels. It is a must for anyone who read Silence of the Lambs.
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Summary: Exciting - gripping - tough!!!
Review: I enjoyed the book very much. Although it was less believable and realistic than Silence of the lambs and Red Dragon, I read to be entertained and boy did it do that!!! It had parts that obviously would be offensive to some faint of heart, but was still one of those stories that are hard to put down. My only problem was that I finished it late one nite and had trouble sleeping for the next several hours!!!
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Summary: Humanizing Hannibal Lecter
Review: I had a lot of expectations when I purchased this book. Who wouldn't? I didn't read "Silence" but I have read "Red Dragon" and thoroughly enjoyed it. Hannibal Lecter, the personification of evil, back in the world, has actually become a mild, mannered curator until he is disturbed, and then he spends the rest of the time running from his pursuors. This was not what I had hoped for. It's an interesting read if you enjoy the Lecter character, but the true nature and personality of the man is not what I thought. I want him to remain evil, not someone to be admired and respected. One of his victims who is obsessed with exacting his revenge on Lecter is made out to be the villian, leaving you to wonder what Lecter's real role is. Starling's character is juxtaposed in the story, but is not essential to the plot. If you've only seen "Silence" on the big screen, I'm sure you have an idea of where "Hannibal" is going to pick up and where it will go. But it doesn't...Harris should have stuck to what the people want.
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