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Summary: What a dissapointment!
Review: Harris-please work on your endings. This book was the prime example of why you should just leave a good story alone and not bother writting a sequel. Silence of the Lambs was fabulous but Hannibal ruined everything Clarice is and made her a weakling.
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Summary: Like having to look at a car wreck....
Review: I just couldn't help myself. After getting about half-way through, I found myself compelled to read on to the silly end. The plot loses its way and gets messy. Giving Lecter's character a reason for his behavior served no purpose other than pandering to the human need to give motives to horrific acts. Lecter was better as a personality mutation making an artistic statement than a victim who's damaged childhood drives him to kill.
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Summary: I anxiously await the follow-up to this mystery ...
Review: I enjoyed this book and found it to be scary and suspenseful. The story ends on a perfect note, leaving the reader wondering if Clarice will ever escape ... and into what the offspring of Margot Verger (via Mason Verger) develops. I hope that Mr. Harris will write again ... and not make us wait for 7 years!
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Summary: I waited ten years for this?!
Review: Never before has the ending of a book totally ruined my reading experience before Hannibal. I got to the point where I couldn't wait for it to end. It just seemed to get more and more ridiculous as it went along.The best thing I can say about the book is that Harris certainly has a way with character development. Whether you like them or not, the characters in Hannibal are well developed, interesting and memorable, even if the story wasn't. Where have you gone Thomas Harris?
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: While some parts of the story werecompelling, the central plot was contrived. It was like Harris rackedhis brain for a sadistic torture that he could incorporate into the story to top "Silence of the Lambs". The ending of the story was preposterous. It's a shame, first Larry McMurtry sells out to write pure gore, now Harris.
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Summary: Great book with odd (as in unbelievable) ending
Review: I stayed up until 1:30 to finish reading the book, and am still not quite sure if it was worth my time. On the whole, i thought the book was well written, and the story was interesting. Most interesting was Mason Verger who actually seemed to upstage Hannibal as the guy you love to hate. I actually found myself pulling for Hannibal towards the end. The end was a shocker, and it will be interested to see if the movie will take the same turn...
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Summary: VERY disappointing
Review: I realize Thomas Harris takes a long time between books, but this one seems to have been written in a very short time, particularly the ending. It's almost as if he wanted to get people to quit asking him what was going to happen next, so he tossed something together. I was very disappointed in the way he seemingly ran out of ideas at the end of the novel, and I thought many of the characters were of the throwaway variety. Without the added dialogue and activities revolving around Barney (why was he even here?) and Margot, as well as other wasted characters, this book could have been much shorter, which is a shame to say, because it was an easy read. The major characters were not handled much better. Mason Verger was a caricature (drinking the tears of children? Come on!), and the way Harris treated Starling is the biggest shame of the book. Lecter's underlying reasons for his criminal life were not convincing, either, although they were painful to read. On the other hand, the portion of the book that took place in Italy was good. It was interesting to see the way ancient history carries over into everyday life, and how Lecter immersed himself in that culture. I was actually able to understand the motivations behind the police official trying to catch Lecter; his character was one of the few "real people" in the book. I hope that if Mr. Harris delves into Lecter again, it will be from early in his career. Otherwise, I think it would be best to just let sleeping (or is that stinking) dogs lie.
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Summary: Very entertaining with an unpredictable ending
Review: A very good book that is not as much of a pure thriller as one would expect. It is a testament to Thomas Harris' skill that he could create a scenario where Dr. lecter is seen as distinctly sympathetic compared to a creation of malevolent evil driven by calculated revenge. A good book - not a great one though.
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Summary: Excellent sequel, but a cop-out ending!
Review: This book had me turning pages so fast, my fingers felt hot; I wondered if the pages would burst into flame. All the way until the end, when I felt betrayed! After almost two complete books covering not just Hannibal Lecter, but Clarice Starling, Thomas Harris wrote an ending which went completely counter to the person - personality, morals, ethics, and integrity - with which he built our favorite FBI agent. It just felt wrong.
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Summary: I was hooked up until the ending....
Review: Where did this come from? The ending, at least to me, was not really beleivable and made my evaluation go from 5 to 3 stars. This book goes in stages. The 1st hundred pages fly by, then the next hundred are tough to get through, then it picks up speed until the ending, where you are left wondering how in the hell that could be the ending. UGH.
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