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Summary: A Masterpiece of the Macabre
Review: I can't believe all the negative reviews I've read! Hannibal is Thomas Harris' best novel yet, and a worthy successor to Red Dragon and Silence Of The Lambs. Violent and gruesome to be sure, but the psychological aspects of the story provide more horror than the physical. Agent Clarice Starling, slammed by the media after a drug bust goes bad, begins pursuing the fugitive Dr. Lecter. Also pursuing the Doctor is Mason Verger, a multimillionaire victim of Lecter's. Paralyzed from the neck down and left with a horribly mangled face, Verger's physical scars are nothing compared to the ugliness of his soul. An evil, unrepentant pedophile who amuses himself with the bodies of poor inner-city children, Verger plans to take revenge by having Dr. Lecter eaten alive by pigs. What Starling doesn't know is that Verger has a high-ranking FBI official on his payroll. The plan is to ruin her career and use her as bait to catch Lecter. The Doctor, however, has other plans - to "adopt" Starling as a replacement for his beloved, long-dead baby sister Mischa. Verger's sister Margot also has plans - to have a child with her female lover using Mason's sperm, so she can keep the family fortune. Her soul is damaged, too - by the childhood sexual abuse suffered at the hands of her brother. The ending of this dark Wagnerian opus is simply spellbinding, and you will not soon forget it! I wasn't surprised that Jodie Foster turned down the movie offer - she's a very conservative actress who doesn't like taking creative chances. If you have an open mind, and you're not squeamish, you should take a chance and read Hannibal! I also recommend the unabridged audio version read by British actor Daniel Gerroll - his Dr. Lecter must be heard!
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Summary: Excellent.
Review: Thrilling and culture together ! I love the way he describes one of the best city on earth: Florence. I readed it in just 1 week, amazing...
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Summary: A tad disappointing ...
Review: Not only did I read and love Silence of the Lambs but after Isaw the movie I vowed never to see it again because it frightened meso. Needless to say, I too, waited in anticipation for the sequel and was more than disappointed. The book started out catchy and kept my interest for a while. Then it was a little hard to follow when the plot switched to Italy, but that turned out to be okay. Even the "brain-eating" storyline in the ending lived up to my Lecter expectations. But about the very end with Hannabal and Clarrice "hooking up"....all I can say is, "Mr. Harris, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?". Therefore, my recommendation is~ do not waste your money on this like I did.
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Summary: Great beginning and middle....but the end is horrid.
Review: This book really kept my intention until the end, when it completely went off the deep end. Highly unbelievable and absurd.
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Summary: Love it or hate it
Review: I listened to this audio book on the road. I really liked the extreme fantasies the author developed for his Hannibal. But it could have been even better and more mysterious. The first one is better - simply genious.
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Summary: Predictability, Surprise and Suspense
Review: After having read Harris' other novels years ago, I was more curious rather than exspecting anything in particular to happen. The novel starts in a predictable but fun-to-read way. Up until the end of the Florence-part my opinion was: so what? I could have told you that was gonna happen!- nevertheless, it WAS enjoyable reading! When I then noticed that the book was only about half-finished, I began to get more curious. I then was surprised by the sudden turn the plot was taking, and the suspense held up right up to the last page. It took me four days to read the first half of the novel, and I read the second half in one afternoon: I JUST COULD NOT PUT THE BOOK DOWN! (I was running to the bathroom like when watching a movie in the cinema!) However, the ending is strange: some of the bad guys get what they deserve, but some of the bad ones get away with it, and some of the good ones pay for it...... not a black and white ending!I ENJOYED READING THAT BOOK!
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Summary: Simply Dreadful: Burn This Book!
Review: As they used to say on Saturday Night Live: Ïrredeemably Bad! I didn't care much for either the book or film version of Silence of the Lambs, with its ludicrously-named protagonists 'Hannibal the Cannibal' and 'Jame Gumb', but this alledged sequel was ridiculous, vile, and an insult to the intelligence of the reader. An appalling waste of paper and ink. My choice for Worst Novel of 1999.
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Summary: Daft fairy tale
Review: Harris's earlier books depicted real killers, drawn from real cases. They took you inside the real world of a particular brand of police work, and the men and women that do it. THAT was what made them good. HANNIBAL has nothing to do with reality at any level. It's a daft, gothic fairy story that flies off into a dreary and lurid realm of fantasy, padded out with a lot of rather unfortunate and han-fisted attempts to portray high culture and sophisticated taste. It just doesn't come off. Maybe Harris is laughing at his readers, but I doubt it. I think he just fell victim to literary pretentions. Well,in so doing, I'm afraid he's only proved that a great novelist he is not, after all. Pity.
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Summary: CLARICE WHERE ARE YOU?
Review: I loved the rich characters in Silence...., but here, Harris basically abandons Clarice and instead creates an atmospheric, gruesome and gothic story around Hannibal himself. What is missing is the resolve and further development of precisely what made these two characters so intriguing in Silence -- their fierce respect for one another, and their implicit "oppositeness". We never get what we want in this book, which comes from a completely different angle. For those of you who enjoyed the ending, I could not disagree more -- it has one the most disappointing finales in recent fiction, certainly that involve characters we know. I simply have decided to separate this story from the clarity and near-perfection of Silence..., which is a breed apart.
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Summary: I liked most of it
Review: I was totally into this book at first. My dad gave it to me after he had read it and said, "You'll love it, it's great." After finishing it and replaying it's events in my mind, I found many actions and situations presented to be unbelievable. Furthermore the characters you know become less like the characters you know as you draw toward the end. Still, as I stated, I liked most of it. I would put this in book in the "fun to read" catagory. I wouldn't take it as seriously as The Silence of the Lambs.
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