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Summary: Disturbing in its depiction of evil as something pure
Review: Certainly the ending of this book was a great disappointment but not because the writing was poor or the ball was dropped with the plot. Those attributes are coincidental. The real disturbing element in this book was that evil triumphs over good. And I mean -- real evil. The descriptions of death and cannibalism border on the pornographic particularly when the main character is given elegance and grace to a level that approaches attractiveness. I wonder when the next serial killer will emulate what he or she learns from this book about eating people. Don't read this abomination on a full stomach and don't be taken in (as I was) by a fascination for the macabre. The plot is predictable and there is little mystery here.
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Summary: Starts with a bang and ends with a bust
Review: It was a dissappointment to go through this gripping book forcing myself to put it down now and then only to find out the ending justs dies and sets you up for a sequel you probably won't want to read.
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Summary: Harris went one book too far with Hannibal
Review: Harris should have stopped at Silence of the Lambs. This book was a major disappointment to me. No real suspense, no real excitement. Disappointing ending. They will make a movie and at least the movie writers will be able to clean it up, show some good Florence scenes and make it a fun show. They sure will throw out a lot of the book and just use the name. One star is too much.
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Summary: not very good,disturbing
Review: I can not believe the ending.The book was well written,but the ending was unbelievable.Would not recommend.
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Summary: Utter trash...
Review: This book is utter trash, a huge disappointment, and borders on psycho-pornography. Harris must of had a screw loose when he penned this poor excuse for a book.
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Summary: The final chapter is the book Harris wanted to write.
Review: The final chapter of this book contains what I think is Harris' best writing in the book. Reading it, I felt as though I was seeing through a delirium, spacey, feverish, in clouded fragments.In the chapter, we learn about the culmination of Hannibal and Clarice Starling's relationship, why they're drawn to each other and how their mutual psychological scars can only be healed this way. (I don't want to give anything away.) After reading that last chapter, I realized the whole rest of the book was a mess. To get there, Harris needed to fill several hundred pages and so we get a meandering narrative where we see what Starling's been up to, what Lecter's been up to complete with some psychobabble about his past, and we meet some really bad guys that we hope will meet a horrible end, and then they do, and BOOM we have the last chapter which is not about anything that came before. On its own, the last chapter really is wonderful, except for the soup tureen. I think Harris might have made himself a sequel in Barney (not the purple one).
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Summary: Yeah, baby!
Review: This novel degenerates into an Austin-Powers sort of ending, so ludicrious that it was easy for me to imagine Lecter looking up from his harpsichord and saying, "Good evening, Clarice. You look so..shagadelic! Rowrrr..oh, behave, you naughty thing!" Thomas Harris has been a fine novelist up to now. What happened?
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Summary: A "DOG" RATING, ONE STAR IS TOO MUCH!!
Review: How disappointing! While SILENCE OF THE LAMBS was suspenseful and thought provoking, HANNIBAL is predictable, boring and overly gruesome. The ending...well, it totally goes against what we know about Starling's character. I bought it the minute it came out. No patience! Had I waited even one day, I would have seen the awful reviews.
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Summary: About the ending
Review: An intelligent reader will recognize the ending as the best part of the book, specifically, the last twenty pages. It's not a cop out, and just because it didn't end with the violence that was expected is no reason to dismiss it. The reader who fully contemplates the characters will realize that the ending is both shocking and logical, and it paints the mood of the book in disctincly gothic hues. I defy anyone to name a sequence in a mainstream, popular novel that approaches the creativity of the dinner scene.
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Summary: What a disappointment!
Review: I loved The Silence of the Lambs, and was excited to read Hannibal. I read Lambs right before Hannibal, and I think that Thomas Harris or his editor should have refreshed themselves too! Not fifty pages into the book, he makes a reference to Lambs that is inaccurate! I was stunned, and irritated. The style of Hannibal is totally different from that of The Silence of the Lambs. I think I may have liked this book better if I had never read Lambs. The scenes seem implausable, and is written in a dreamy quality I was not looking for in this novel. Some of the references to pop culture are wrong as well, another editing problem. (It wasn't "La Macarena") I don't recommend this book if you loved The Silence of the Lambs and are looking for anything similar. You will be very disappointed. If you go in with no expectations, it's an OK book.
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