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Summary: A pleasant read, yet a pale effort from Harris
Review: Maybe we expected too much. The hype regarding this sequel to SILENCE OF THE LAMBS began last year, with speculation that Hopkins & Foster would wait for the story before signing on.The story rolls along fairly well, with a few major characters introduced, and a new locale in Italy. There is your pre-requesite amount of graphic detail, pyschoanalytical mumbo-jumbo, and Starling up again the world. The ending itself was quite a surprise, but it reads as a quickie, neat & tidy, and pretty implausable ending. I cannot imagine Mssr's. Hopkins and Foster reading the conclusion, and keeping a straight face. If you have read all of Harris's stories, you will be able to anticipate just about every turn in the story. Still, not a bad effort from Harris, but not one of his best.
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Summary: Excellent, thrilling novel!!
Review: This book is not only on Hannibal, but a great narrative of Italy and art. Great, fast reading with well written pages!
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Summary: This book proves the adage, "leave well enough alone."
Review: It was a HUGE disappointment. If you liked the characters Jack Crawford and Clarice Starling from Silence of the Lambs, don't read this book. Any fond memories you had of the characters will be ruined. The plot is improbable from start to finish, and downright sick at times.
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Summary: PARTAKE A GREAT READ!!!!
Review: After ten years of waiting, I scarfed this down in 24-hours. When I hit the end, I was thrown. TAKE YOUR TIME reading this medium. I say 'medium' for the novel sense that this great book is not a flick by flick passage. Re-reading it the second time, I savored cherishing, incredible, carving insights. You find Hannibal, as usual, not obvious. Buy it. Enjoy a fantastic book! As for references to being a movie, certainly the possibilities are there. Thank you, Mister Harris, I love your writings. "Please, can I have some MORE!"
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Summary: Preposterous, but interesting
Review: The official Thomas Harris website allows us to hear in the authors own words, the fact that Hannibal took 3000 days to write. During those 3000 days, Mr. Harris did wrestle with the preposterous, yet even when he has ventured beyond the point where we may suspend our disbelief, he remains interesting to read. The manuscript, poorly edited as it may be, is a tweak away from a screenplay, and what may seem preposterous to the reader, is mere fluff when compared with modern movie horror. I enjoyed the attempt, but disliked the final product. Pigs eating people? Enormous eels shoved down one's throat? Perhaps the movie shall be called... "Hannibal...I still know what you did last summer..."
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Summary: Disappointing...
Review: The Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs each were terrific studies of human nature within a tight, engrossing, thriller. Hannibal was neither, and wasn't even written very well. Harris should have been able to capitalize on the interesting characters he had created, but instead laid down an absurd plot from which they had no choice but to become more and more ridiculous.
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Summary: Oh please!!!!!!!!
Review: I can't say this was a disappointment because I had no great expectations but I did expect a decent read. I found myself skimming the book when Starling was not around. Her character is the most interesting in the series. Hannibal is just unreal. I was bored in Florence and with the details of Lechter's "superb taste" It was still salvageable until the end when Harris underwent his full frontal lobotomy which is the only explanation for his ridiculous conclusion. I suspect that he may have done this to ensure that there will not be a movie sequel. The audience would laugh thenselves sick.
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Summary: A sad dissappointment
Review: How sad to read Hannibal the day of its release and discover that only evil exists in all characters- with no sense of available redemption. Previous Harris books offered this hope. Hannibal does not. Although many characters are sicker than Lecter himself, their sickness is unrealistic. Turning Lecter into a sick saviour of sorts is also hardly satisfying. I will be looking elsewhere for my summer reading thrill. Sally Anne Leger
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Summary: ChristI'mthrilled!
Review: I just finished the book, having been a fan for years (my cat's name is Thomas Harris, and Not just Tom!).... but this book rocks! At first, I wasn't sure, but the more I read the more I SAVORED-- I had to re-read parts to prolong the ride! Horrific and awesome! If they do make it into a movie, they Must use the same actors... but they'll never portray it like it was written... Great Book--- now I'll be in suspense for years to come waiting for the next... Clarisse will snap out of it. won't she??!!
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Summary: Why Italy.......Why the ending?
Review: I promise I will not reveal the ending but let me say.....whatever! What a let down. Although I loved that we got to know Dr. Lecter but why would Mr. Harris do what he did? I realize that "yes it's only a book", but I have waited years to find out what happens to all these characters. I cannot believe that this was how he chose to leave these people!! I found the part in Italy (forgive me) but boring untill right before we leave Italy, and the ending...AAARRGG!! I hope in another decade there will be an explanation for this book as well!!
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