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Summary: Hungry for more
Review: A delicious novel! It kept me reading into the night. Seeing how the Dcotor became who and what he is was the most satisfying (if shocking) part. Certainly disturbing, it's not for everyone... but if you crave an intelligent horror novel, this ones a keeper!
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Summary: Don't waste your energy
Review: After the thrill of Red Dragon and the suspense of Silence of th Lambs, one cannot blame Thomas Harris for a last attempt at cashing in on the craze. This book is poorly written, untrue to the characters, and uneventful. If you haven't read it, I suggest you don't, and just simply reread Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs. It will be time well spent.
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Summary: This book had so much potential!
Review: Because I enjoyed The Silence of the Lambs, I really looked forward to Hannibal. And given the amount of time the author put into the tale, I truly expected something magnificent. In some ways, it is. Mr. Harris writes with clarity, with an eye for the minute detail and also beautiful imagery. However there is no consistency in the behavior of main character, Clarice Starling. Some of the things he had Clarice doing I would never have imagined her doing in a million years. Don't let me get started on the amount of gratuitous violence...I'd be here all day. Just suffice it to say this book is possibly the most gross piece of literature I've ever had the displeasure of reading. It seems the author wanted us to feel sympathy for the monster, Hannibal Lecter. I have no compassion for a man who eats his fellow man. I'm truly sorry I couldn't give this five stars. If I were grading it solely on the writer's ability to compose wonderful sentences, paragraphs, I'd indeed give it five stars. But a writer has a responsibility do much more than entertain. There is no human feeling in this book. If you like suspense and horror, I suggest you read a Dean Koontz book. He's an excellent writer of this sort of story, and he manages to write with compassion. The end of this tale is a travesty! I do not write spoilers. But see if you don't agree with me. I felt totally cheated with this sophomoric effort at riding off into the sunset and ,frankly, thought both the writer and Clarice Starling had lost their minds! No, I definitely don't recommend this read. And I'm not putting my name on this review because I don't want my close friends to know I read Hannibal!
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Summary: Terrible Waste of Time
Review: Ugh! This book was awful. I read Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs and thought they were great. This was simply "let's have fun with canibalism". Until the last 100 pages or so, it was boring. Those pages were more gripping, but the ending was horrible. Until I got to it, I thought there was a chance that the majority of the book was going to be redeemed by the ending. Not so. I can't say enough how much I hated this book!
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Summary: 3 1/2, Actually.
Review: This was an interesting read, primarily becasue Harris is (certainly in this instance) a master teller of story, and can set a scene and describe minutae and description in a great way. The book is great fun to read, if somewhat lacking in not only believability, but plausability. The fashion in which Harris writes is quite compelling. Unfortunately, the book seems to get bogged down in scenes which become way over-the-top, and ultimately an ending which, while believable in the context of fiction, not in keeping with the integrity of the characters. It will indeed be interesting to see how the film version will be adapted, and even if it is untrue to the book (posibly a plus), it would have to be amazing to be even half as good as The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal the book is not). I can see why jodie Foster turned down the role, but it may not have been for the level of gore or violence, but rather the almost inane ending. But, given all that, I still enjoyed reading the book, and give it a marginal recommendation.
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Summary: Very Good Read, but not as good as the Others
Review: I thought the book read very well, and maintained a god pace. However, it did not have the psychological impact that the other two books (Red Dragon, and Silence of the Lambs)had. It did have some enjoyable and vivid moments and I recommend this book to any suspense fans.
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Summary: A Wonderful, Horrible, Suspenseful, Funny Book
Review: Thomas Harris is such a joy to read. This book provided me with many wonderful hours of reading. Hannible is horrible, but some of the characters Harris presents in this novel are so bad that Hannible is a (anti) hero, righting the wrongs that society cannot seem to avenge. There is also one of the funniest scenes I have ever read, as Harris describes Dr Lecter flying back from Europe in coach on a crowded aircraft. Read this book and enjoy it. Harris is far better than many of his fellow top-notch writers, including James Patterson (Cat and Mouse, etc.), John Sandford (Easy Prey, etc.) and Rory Smith (Devil In The Metal). I can't wait for the next book to find out how our lunatic (anti) hero is doing!
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Summary: A Monsterous Disappointment
Review: I can't believe that I wasted 500 pages worth of time on this atrocity of fiction. The characters are loathesome and uninteresting, not to mention laughable and absurd. I kept on reading only to the belief that it has to get better. I never read the Silence of the Lambs, but if it was anything like this, they must have done a lot of rewrites pre-production for the film version. News that Jodi Foster doesn't want to be a part of this film adaptation is no surprise, in fact I hope they scrap the whole idea. This book, with no other better way to say it, is so stupid. The only reason that a book of this caliber could ever make the NY Times best-seller list has got to be the herd instinct of readers. I am only sorry that I went along with them. Don't be a part of the herd.
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Summary: Skip it!
Review: This is truly a case of living in a society that has been numbed by violence and morbit thought alike. The book "Hannibal" is the worst kind of deforestation. It would be easier to digest the let-down of this work if there had not been moments of great promise along the way.With out destroying the integrity of the suspense A would be reader should be forewarned that in this book Starling's most treasured qualities, the very ones that drew us to her are replaced by sheer lunacy and immature fiction. First and formost it is a novel. But anyone who reads this book can see why an actress the caliber of Jodie Fosterwould dismisses this storyline. An in fact, with out a major overhaul of the ending the film version will not play in America.
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Summary: I regret wasting my time reading Hannible
Review: The worse book I have ever read. The only reason I continued was that I read a review saying the last 100 pages were gripping. I regret not throwing it in the trash as soon as I realized it was written to be a grade B movie. Thank you Jodie Foster for not going forward with this obnoxious story.
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