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Summary: Clarice Starling's character is the true victim of this book
Review: A horrible, unbelievable ending to a grotesque story. I wish I hadn't read this book.
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Summary: Waste of time and money
Review: If, a year ago, you or I had submitted a manuscript such as "Hannibal" to Delacorte Press/Random House, we'd probably gotten a reply from one of their editors suggesting we'd seek professional help. But, hey, this book is by Harris... slice'em, dice'em, savor'em Harris. He probably spent his royalty checks sampling European deli counters and growing both his pâté repertoire and his waist line. And that's OK... that's the book publishing business. If Hannibal doesn't meet expectations, and it didn't meet mine, then perhaps we ought to analyze our expectations. What on earth are we thinking Harris would do for us?
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Summary: TERRIBLE
Review: I think that this is a horrible book. Thomas Harris wrote a horrible sequel. Silence of the Lambs was wonderful, along with the movie, but this book was a disappointment. I read many books but this had to be one of the worst that I have ever read. He really let you down with the characters, and with the ending.
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Summary: sweetbreads anyone?
Review: I'm amazed at the amount of negative criticism this book has gotten on the sole basis of its ending -- which, by the way, I found extremely consistent and fun. This isn't a book for the slice-and-dice crowd. Rather, it offers a wider and deeper context in which to understand that monsters can turn human -- and vice versa -- with very little help. By the way, I'm thrilled to know that at some point in the story I happen to be living four blocks away from Dr. Lecter! There goes the neighborhood...
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Summary: i had hoped for more...
Review: After Silence of the Lambs, I expected more from Thomas Harris and Hannibal. This read more like a Mad Magazine parody, with cartoonish characters. I'm especially disappointed with Mr. Harris' treatment of Clarice Starling. She deserved better...and we all deserve a better book than we're gotten with Hannibal. I can't recommend this book, but I'll recommend a better one...Deception in the RainShadows by Riley St. James...a great mystery with credible characters and a thrilling plot.
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Summary: Along with last two *Aliens* film, worst sequel EVER.
Review: Along with everything in the *Aliens* film series after *Aliens*, the most disappointing sequel ever. All of Harris's worst--it's gross for the sake of grossness--and none of his best, because he destroys the character of Starling. Jodie Foster, don't do it. A really, really, really seriously bad ending. Don't buy it; don't read it. I'm sorry I did.
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Summary: hyptnotic
Review: Thougts on the book: Enjoyed Margot and Mason quite a bit...could have done without Barney. Clarice is a much stronger, more confident character...a formidible opponent for Hannibal which is why the carnival ending left me feeling so confused, abandoned. Silly subplots. Doubtful situations. Harris is so afraid of the most reasonable ending, implies the supernatural. Like the transition between old world new world. Good exploration of clarice and hannibal pysche, that's when Harris really lets himself go...go flow. Dr. Lector's thought process extremely fascinating to observe. Except for the whole evil thing, Dr. Lector sounds like a good date. Impeccable taste, deliberate moves. However, Harris may get too intimate, personal with him. Having him give gifts ...trying to give him a soft side? Like to see how they get a screenplay out of it. Intensly hypnotic...loved visiting Hannibals mind palace, that was brilliant. Some extremely horrific unsettling scenes, a little far fetched...too much too easy for lector. Overall, good flavor.
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Summary: Welcome to the Exhibit of the Instruments of Torture
Review: When I re-read RED DRAGON and SILENCE OF THE LAMBS shortly after seeing the movie of SILENCE, it frightened me more than anything in either of the books that Thomas's Harris's identification somehow had shifted from being with the FBI to being with Hannibal the Cannibal.HANNIBAL more than bears this feeling out. The key to understanding this book is the scene in which Dr. Lecter visits the exhibit on instruments of torture. He doesn't give them much attention but watches the reaction of the visitors with disgust and his usual sense of superiority. We, dear readers, are the visitors to the torture show and this book is Harris's one-in-the-eye, over-the-top offering to us thrown as though to a pack of jackals who are hungry for anything dead. If the reading public can't get enough of sickos and pyschos, then he's given us what we deserve.
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Summary: A Satiric Blockbuster
Review: A worthy successor to Silence of the Lambs. Imaginative, extensively researched, and skillfully executed. A great satire with a smashing denouement. The lobotomy dinner is a tour de force. Clarice and Hannibal dancing in each others arms; who would have imagined such a finale? Fred and Ginger must be disinterred if the film is to be perfect.I loved it.
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Summary: A real suspense builder with a disappointing climax.
Review: From the beginning of the book, your hooked. You actually find yourself at times cheering Hannibal on trying to escape from Mason Verger's madness. But the ending between Hannibal & Clarice Starling was just unbelievable. The relationship between the two in the Silence of the Lambs would not allow me to believe the ending in Hannibal.
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