Hannibal : Movie Tie In

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Summary: An okay book with a bad ending
Review: For the most part the book was entertaining. I felt it dragged in the middle of the book, and picked up once the action went back to the US. The ending defiantly destroyed it for me. With an early climax and and ending that I just plan didn't like. While it may have been a protest against the movie industry did I, as a reader, have to suffer?

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Summary: a materpiece
Review: Hannibal is a masterpiece of style and mood, with the most shocking ending i have ever read. Truly brilliant.

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Summary: Grotesque and ridiculous ! It took ten years for this!
Review: I believe Mr. Harris spent too much time on ways to make the reader gag and not enough time on the story. The plot is mundane and the ending is so bizarre it makes no sense. I am sorry I read this book. I was a big fan of the other three novels. I guess if you write with a movie in mind the story suffers.

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Summary: Elegantly written with a wonderful ending.
Review: I realize I am in the vast minority, but I thoroughly enjoyedthe ending. I haven't read either of the two previous books, but I didsee the movie version of SOTL, which prompted me to buy this book, and I was very impressed with Harris's writing style that compares favorably with Anne Rice's Vampire series. Both use vivid descriptions and elegant prose that provide a depth many are hard-pressed to achieve. Many others may not have liked this book because it clashed with pre-concieved notions of what the plotline should be, but as a newcomer to Harris's written works, I can tell you I enjoyed it immensely. If you are open-minded, and like psychologically horrifying works, then this is a first rate thriller I would recommend to anyone!

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Summary: Great start, silly ending!
Review: Thomas Harris should have reconsidered the ending of this book. I was totally engrossed until the impossible ending. I hope that he does not continue with this story.

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Summary: Yes, I know it's in the garbage . . .
Review: When my roommate found my new book, "Hannibal" by Thomas Harris, in the garbage, he asked, "Why did you throw your new book away? Someone else might like to read it." In response, I said, "Throwing the book in the garbage, then dumping coffee grounds on top of it, then old salad, and the other stuff represents the BEST critique I can summon concerning that poor excuse for a book . . ." I honestly cannot believe I wasted ten hours of my time and $25 dollars of my money on what is probably the worst book I've read this decade. What happened at the end, really? What the hell was that?

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Summary: Thrilling and Engrossing
Review: Despite what some of the other people said, I found this book to be very entertaining and exciting. Harris does an exellent job of showing how gruesome and terrifying the bad guys are, such as Mason Verger.

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Summary: Can't decide between revolting or plain bad
Review: It took Thomas Harris this long to write a substandard sequel to "Silence of the Lambs"? The ending was so lame but then again it only was in keeping with the rest if the book. This really was an insult to the previous books

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Summary: The joke is on us people, and it is NOT funny!
Review: Basic rule: Write for your audience. I have been reading reviews and it gets to me when people who loved this book say those who didn't lack the intelligence to understand it. I get it. I hate it. That simple. Now............. I don't know who Harris wrote this for but it was not for his readers or the fans or actors of SOTL who thrust him into literary stardom. It was strictly OK for the first few hundred pages then went completely to hell. The ending is ludicrous. I mean, were the characters of SOTL just a little inside joke for Harris and his crew at the publishing house? Like, "Oh, we'll have millions buy into these characters and then in the next book which will sell even more copies we will screw them over! Yeah." please...I could go on forever but then I would ruin it for any of you who have the time to waste who plan on reading this. I recommend counting the cracks in the sidewalk outside your house. That would prove more productive.

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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: I found the direction taken with the characters disturbing and unexpected. Definitely not the best of Thomas Harris. Maybe the less we know of Dr. Lector and his past, the better.