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Hannibal

by Thomas Harris

Horror lit's head chef Harris serves up another course in his Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter trilogy, and it's a pièce de résistance for those with strong stomachs. In the first book, Red Dragon (filmed as Manhunter), Hannibal diabolically helps the FBI track a fascinating serial killer. (Takes one to know one.) In The Silence of the Lambs, he advises fledgling FBI manhunter Clarice Starling,... (read more)

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Dotty
  • Rated 4 stars

“a gripping book. i would not want to be in starlings shoes. it made me rethink what i percieve as a bad man with the first initial greeting of a person.”

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Tinky
  • Rated 1 stars

“Obscene on so many levels. Utter trash.”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.604265 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 3.03125 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • madeleine f

    madeleine f said:

    “I liked most of this book. I've never seen the film (though I would really like to) and it strikes me that a couple of the casting choices were superb - notably Gary Oldman as Mason Verger, who I can imagine would be perfect, and Ray Liotta as Krendler, who is just made to play nasty policemen. :] To be honest, the ending struck me as unbelievable. Throughout the other novels, Starling has always been a very level-headed character, and although she had issues, they didn't seem to me to be that bad. Perhaps the events of this book drive her over the edge, I don't know. This book is incredibly atmospheric, however, and I found myself really feeling for a lot of the characters - particularly Dr. Lecter when he's in the aeroplane. I found this book deviated a little from the standard 'crime novel' feeling of the first two (Red Dragon & Silence of the Lambs), which I thought was really good - let's face it, crime novels tend to appeal to those who like short words and easy to understand plots, and this was slightly more intellectual. I did feel though that Harris wrote some things simply for shock value - the final scene with Krendler, for example.”

    posted Sunday, August 3 2008
  • Callie B

    callie b said:

    “This book has a little theme in it of a memory palace that is interesting. Thomas Harris states at the end of the book, "In trying to understand the structure of Dr. Lecter's memory palace, I was added by Frances A. Yates remarkable book "The Art of Memory", as well as Johnathan D. Spence's "The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci".”

    posted Friday, June 13 2008 ( | view 2 replies )
  • mr-mojo-risin

    mr-mojo-risin said:

    “According to me the best one of the series, I enjoyed the view into Hannibal Lecters mind. The end is dope! I don't see it's that predictable, I like he cracked her shell...”

    posted Saturday, March 29 2008
  • Suzie A

    suzie a said:

    “The worst one in the series! I know he wanted to get out of his contract, but why write such a bad book? ”

    posted Saturday, February 16 2008
  • Kipple

    kipple said:

    “Well. They certainly gave the movie a Hollywood ending. ”

    posted Sunday, February 3 2008
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