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Summary: What a disappointing ending.
Review: After Red Dragon, which I considered exceptionally well written, and the best of the three, (Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal) about Hannibal Lecter, I was hugely disappointed. While I'm sure that Italy is a fascinating country, I really don't need to read 250 pages of detail I can get from Fodor's...And the ending is really disappointing. I can't believe Harris let's it end that way. What a bummer.
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Summary: Nuts! I was hoping for a book - not a sequel to a movie!
Review: I was VERY disappointed in this book. I agree with the person who wrote that Clarice was wimpy and so is Dr. Lecter. The ending is dumb - putting it mildly! I was hoping that Mr. Harris would not stoop to writing a movie sequel and passing it off for a book - my mistake. It is definitely not a book I care to re-read! What else can I say? Don't waste your time - and don't buy it - get it at the library for free if you must! I'm sorry about the gruffness of this review but I'm just so disappointed! Oh, well....
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Summary: Superior psycho thriller
Review: I feel a bit odd saying I enjoyed a book with such brutality in it, but once again Thomas Harris has written a superior thriller. Adding to the "enjoyment" of the book were the images of Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins reprising their roles as I read each dialogue.I was not happy with the ending, which is why I rated the book four stars. I would have preferred Lecter escaping, being killed or even the demise of Starling to the ending portrayed in the book. Otherwise, it was a fabulous read...
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Summary: Great start, but bad ending!
Review: I just finished the book and I must say the conclusion was disturbing and unexpected. Harris started out great; the action and suspense was right on target. It was interesting seeing Hannible on the loose; although some of his abilities were at times a little too extraordinary to believe. While I can't discuss the ending too much I will say that, given the past of both characters from the "Silence of The Lambs", it did not make since. Part of the problem may have been that Harris put all of his effort into fleshing out the Hannibal character and not enough into Clarice, this might explain the inexplicable ending. Perhaps Harris should have re-read the "Silence of the Lambs" to stay on track. If this book were ever made into a feature film the ending will have to be rewritten.
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Summary: Great Book, Not-So-Great ending
Review: Unlike most Harris fans, I haven't been waiting 11 years for this book. I'm only fifteen,and I read "Silence of the Lambs" last year. Still, I was looking forward to this book. I loved it until the last two chapters... I can understand the ending, but I really wish there had been more description of what Clarice was thinking. She went insane, but It was so fast, and out of character, that I had to re-read the chapter again. Except for the ending, I thought it was good. Mason seemed more evil than Lecter, and it was interesting to see some of the landmarks from earlier books so twisted, like the institution. I'm not afraid of Lecter anymore though. I appreciated learning about his history, but now he's too human to fear. Still, I wish there was more explanation for the ending.
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Summary: Boring, Boring & More Boring!!!!
Review: Thomas Harris forgot how to write! Silence of the Lambs was impossible to put down! Hannibal is impossible to get through. I could do without Harris' anti-christian politics at every turn!
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Summary: Ending made me so unhappy I couldn't go to sleep
Review: I loved Silence of the Lambs (the novel much more than the movie). When I saw "Hannibal" staring at me from a bookstore shelf this weekend I grabbed it and headed for my porch swing late Sunday afternoon. While I didn't like the characters as much as I did in SOTL, I did find it a very good book until the last 40 pages or so. I kept thinking that Thomas Harris was really going to have to put a lot in very few pages to explain the Clarice/Hannibal pairing. When he left it that way I sat dumbfounded for several minutes and then started telling a friend the entire plot to see if he was as incredulous as I was over the ending. He was. I went to work today and told everyone I knew that they would want to know how the book ended before they started reading, just in case they felt it wasn't worth the let down at the end! Unless the ending is changed, I can't imagine anyone liking the movie either!
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Summary: The Ending Isn't The Only Cheesy Thing About The Novel
Review: Three different novels: one third action film, one third flat, quasi-literary travelogue, and the final third pretentious allegory. The action film is thrilling, the Florence travelogue stuffy, and the allegory insufferable.
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Summary: LAME!!! There will NOT be a movie!!!
Review: Here is another negative review...this is not a 3 star book! I can't understand how people can claim he wrote this solely with a future film in mind....there is no audience for this version of events. Maybe some day another writer can extrapolate beyond what happened in 'Silence of the Lambs' because as far as I'm concerned, HANNIBAL didn't happen! Morbidly entertaining at times, but when compared to the first two books, it really DOES appear that someone else wrote this book.
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Summary: Very disappointing ending
Review: What a waste: the author of two horror classics yearning to "transcend the genre." Is the ending a dream sequence or hypnotic/drug induced trance, or will the next installment find Clarisse and Hannibal digging up Jean-Paul Sartre's remains and gnawing on them? Who cares! As I finished this book, I was embarrassed for Thomas Harris, to think that this sloppy denouement was the best he could produce after so many years, particularly when the first half of the book is so well done. Harris wants to have it both ways: he wants the readers that Lecter's gory exploits bring, but he also wants to be taken seriously as an artiste. He has become the literary equivalent of Quentin Tarantino, by confusing self-indulgence with creativity.
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