Hannibal : Movie Tie In

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Summary: thought it was great until the end
Review: i was on the edge of seat for most of this thrilling book. until after the climax hit and the book came to a close. the last 50 pages gave quite an unrealistic twist. it personall ruined it for me.

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Summary: What a ride!!! The master is back and better than ever!!
Review: This book is not for the faint of heart. We learn more about the motivations of Dr. Lecter and begin to understand his fondness for Agent Starling. The ending is absolutely worth the ride!!! I am eagerly awaiting the pre-quel of Red Dragon--I want to learn more about Lecter's crimes and how he was caught. So, Mr. Harris if your reading this.....

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Summary: TERRIBLE ENDING
Review: Great opening scene, gritty and intense. Everything was good, good story line, great explanations and good follow through. Characters seem so real that you associate yourself with them. You understand their motives, their desires and fears. Finished book in one night..so dissapointed at the ending.....one comment to all prospective readers....DON'T READ THE LAST FORTY PAGES IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY THIS NOVEL......

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Summary: Amazing writing, unbelievably dissapointing ending
Review: As usual, Thomas Harris is very capable of writing amazingly well. His quality and word formation is brilliant, and up till now, all of his books have been good. To me, I guess, up until the last 50 pages, I greatly enjoyed it. And then, all of a sudden, it doesn't make sense. When authors write books, they characterize, and Thomas Harris is the king of this. But at the ending of Hannibal, Clarice suddenly steps out of character and changes completely. The ending is so unbelievable stupid and so dissapointing, I don't even reccomend it.

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Summary: Skip the last ten pages.
Review: Liked "Red Dragon", loved "Silence of the Lambs", and was really looking forward to this. The main part of this book, while not breathtakingly exciting, was very interesting to read. I liked seeing this different, cultured side of Lecter, one of the most interesting characters/villians ever. However, I was absolutely astounded at the ridiculous ending involving Starling, one of the most compelling female characters I have ever read. It was like someone else wrote the ending. Does Harris not have family, friends, editors who can be brutally honest with him? If they make a movie out of this, and I hope they do (and I hope they can get Hopkins out of retirement; he would relish this deeper, cultured side of Lecter) they had better do a serious re-write on the ending.

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Summary: I thought it stunk! Not worth the time or money!
Review: I just perused some other reviews and was happy to see that most agreed with me, very big waste of time! I honestly can't believe Harris wrote it, its not worthy of him. Not only did it not scare me, it was boring, and many facts were incorrect from SOTL- for example, Clarice's mother was dead before her father was shot - how come Harris didn't remember that fact? There were other inconsistencies as well. For a book that many of us had waited for over 6-7 years, it had a lot of pages but short on substance. I believe that a few of Harris's readers could have come up with a much better story line than what was served up to us in this book. Maybe Harris has just lost his touch - too bad! I thought he was one author who wouldn't give in to the almighty buck from Hollywood as others have (Patterson, Grisham et al). Oh well, time to search for a new favorite author! The Red Dragon was the best mystery that I have ever read - it kept me up the entire night and home from school the next morning.

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Summary: The increase of disorder
Review: Entropy reaches its climax in this book. Sick minds seem to beeverywhere and Clarice Starling is Dr. Lecter's ultimate victim andachievement. Only him could understand and savour "il miele dentro la leonessa". A powerfull, complex and disturbing book. I really enjoyed it. The unknown is only more fascinating when it comes from Thomas Harris.

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Summary: Delicious ending makes up for too many movie like sequences.
Review: Although the style of prose is far too movielike for my taste, and certain sequences are very predictable, the ending is a good one, probably as far from hollywood as you can get considering that it will be made into a blockbuster movie.

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Summary: Read Red Dragon and SOTL and forget this exists
Review: I bought this book with the delusion that it would be as good as the other two in the series. I was greatly disappointed by it and spent two days trying to forget that I had read it. I couldn't believe what the author had done to the memoriable characters that he had created. Starling came across as just another helpless female and lacked the finesse and intellect that made her stand out in Silence of the Lambs. Lecter lacked his edge and there were too few times when you got to see the dry humor that the character exhibited in the other books. I hated that the author chose to give Lecter a nagging psycological past. I thought he was perfect the way he was...no chessey explainations for why he was a savage monster. I found the ending to be the biggest let down. I thought it really lacked imagination and was to easy of a jump for the author to make. Overall, this book was badly written and poorly executed and if this hadn't been the sequel to SOTL it wouldn't have made it to the bestsellers list. If you are looking for a good read look elsewhere, if you are looking to line the pockets of a sell out author and publishing house by all means buy the book. If you feel that you must really must read this book...check it out at the library. Save your money for a book that really is a good read.

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Summary: Thomas Harris' hilarious parody of himself
Review: This is a dark, hilarious, florid, dead-on parody of Harris' own earlier works. News flash to anyone who thinks otherwise: The joke's on you!