Hannibal : Movie Tie In

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Summary: Excellent...
Review: I could not put this book down... I didn't know about Red Dragon, but am reading it now. Hannibal was an attention grabber. In Lambs, I found myself (for some reason) rooting for Hannibal and also in part of Hannibal... but it twisted and turned into a very dark place and I was very surprised at the end... not what I expected. I wish Harris had written a book about Hannibals whole life, from child hood to when Graham caught him.

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Summary: dissapointing yet engrossing
Review: As a fan of the original Silence of the Lambs I thought there would be a lot more to come. However I was dissapointed after reading Hannibal. While engrossing as the original it lacks what the first one had. Realism mainly.

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Summary: About as bad as it gets!
Review: I hadn't read a piece of fiction in several years. Because most novels are so weak. When I read that the third installment of the Hannibal Lecter trilogy was coming out this summer I got really excited. Since I had enjoyed both Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs in my fiction reading days. After reading Hannibal I'm going back to fiction. I don't have time to waste on this c**p!

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Summary: If you can get past the Italy chapters, the book is great..
Review: I agree with most of the other comments. The first half is a little slow trying to get through all of the Italian history and language. It took forever to read these parts. But, the second half was great. I flew through the book. The suspense was great and I could picture everything in my mide so vividly. Only the ending was truly awful. Read it, you'll see.

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Summary: Where's Bruce Willis?
Review: This book is a big disappointment. The Silence of the Lambs was not great art, but it was a good beach read. Hannibal is neither. The plot has predictable action-movie sequences, and the prose reads like a script treatment for a film. Honestly, I'm surprised Harris just didn't admit that he wrote this for the big Hollywood bucks, and stick in "camera pans left," "fade in to cheesy overhead shot of Rome, with tourists," etc. That would have been a lot more honest of him. Skip the book and wait for the Bruce Willis blockbuster. Also, I just read in the paper that this book is going be made into a film starring Jodie Foster and Sarah Michelle Gellar. So there you go. Save your money.

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Summary: This book ate me up
Review: I loved this book. I can't believe that Harris actually had me sympathizing with this abhorrent character, Hannibal. But there I was. The subtleties that Harris includes from beginning to end were not lost on me. This book must be read slowly and purposefully or volumes will be missed. Take your time, cook up some brains and curl up next to a hot fire...

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Summary: Fascinating, but ultimately diasppointing.
Review: Like many of you, I bought it the first week it was out, rushed home with it, and like Dr. Lecter might do with a new acquaintance, I devoured it. Maybe I ate too fast, maybe I need to go back and eat it again, or maybe I just need to let it go. Did anyone but me think the Italian cop was worth saving just because of his decadence? Did anyone but me think the ending was over wrought and, well, contrived? Did Harris get tired of writing, or thinking? Good book? Hell yes. Anything more? No. Wonderful characters and characterization, MTV plot.

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Summary: Waste of time and money
Review: This book is simply awful. I have read many of the reviews on here, and fail to understand how anyone can promote this book as a great read. The Florentine descriptions were somewhat informative (roll over Baedeker) but felt more plodding than necessary for the book. I read one reviewer on here warn that your "dreams and nightmares will never be the same" . . . puhlease! The fate of the victims in the novel seemed as horrific as Wiley Coyote being hit in the noggin' by an Acme safe, cartoon writing at its ???best??? The ending was perhaps the greatest disappointment. I don't expect an ending that is necessarily neat and tidy, but the outlandish denoument of this book is beyond comprehension, and certainly outside of the characterization Thomas' originally created in Clarice. He makes clear at the very end that the "hypnosis" and drugs no longer played a part in the transformation (regression) of Clarice, so she apparently was deemed to be acting, at that point, of her own free will? (Not to mention, I was always of the understanding that a person under hypnosis will not do anything which they would find repugnant while in a waking state . . . ) So, was Clarice a monster just waiting to hatch??? Thoughts to ponder? I think not; enough time was wasted on this drivel already. SAVE YOUR MONEY!

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Summary: Harris, DO NOT ever read your own books, PLEASE!
Review: Big Disappointment. Unless a Mississippi native trains extensively with a phoneticist in acting class, he has no business reading this kind of writing. Sure, your Italian is passable, nothing out of the common way; but how can you disappoint us after the brilliance of Kathy Bates's reading Silence? You are a great writer, but not a good reader. All of the suspense is lost on your provincial, run-of-the-mill, southern accent. You should have asked John Lithgow, or Ed Bagley, Jr, or Ms. Bates again.

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Summary: "You Dont Want Hannibal Lecter In Your Head"-Jack Crawford
Review: Overall, I expected more from Hannibal. Red Dragon and Silence were much better books. Lecter loses some of his creepiness in Hannibal and Harris' ending suffers from being just too incredible. It appears that Harris only creates Starling to be the victim of all men whether they be serial killers or cops. I expected more from Starlings character and was disappointed in Harris' treatment of her. There were faint glimpses of Harris' earlier achievements, but Hannibal was a step in the wrong direction.