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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. One learns more about who Dr. Lector is. A fantastic read. Thank you Mr. Harris. (  ) Anagarika | Oct 30, 2009 |  This is my favorite novel of all time. I've been through about 5 or 6 copies of it throughout the ten years since I first read it. I carried it with me all of freshman year of high school. When read along with "Red Dragon" and "The Silence of the Lambs" it almost feels like the story wrote itself. The characters are so COMPLETE. They feel like they're real, living, breathing people and the choices and actions they make seem organic and in accordance to their individual nature. ( ) Leli1013 | Oct 24, 2009 | Just awful! And awfully boring! Harris also succeeded in totally destroying Clarice's character and removing Hannibal's mystic. Not a book for the fans of 'Red Dragon' or 'Silence of the Lambs'. (  )1  ParadigmTree | Aug 5, 2009 | Better than the film because we see more clearly into Hannibal's mind and appreciate its scope. The ending seems unnecessarily sensational and the transformation of Clarice into Hannibal's very willing amour unlikely, although one can see them having some kind of more barbed relationship 1 ponsonby | Jul 17, 2009 | Took forever to realize just what was going on. The ending was exactly how I wanted it to go though! :D Hannibal and Clarice forever! (  )1 KyleeKat | Jun 23, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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Years later, posing as scholarly Dr. Fell, curator of a grand family's palazzo, Hannibal lives the good life in Florence, playing lovely tunes by serial killer/composer Henry VIII and killing hardly anyone himself. Clarice is unluckier: in the novel's action-film-like opening scene, she survives an FBI shootout gone wrong, and her nemesis, Paul Krendler, makes her the fall guy. Clarice is suspended, so, unfortunately, the first cop who stumbles on Hannibal is an Italian named Pazzi, who takes after his ancestors, greedy betrayers depicted in Dante's Inferno.
Pazzi is on the take from a character as scary as Hannibal: Mason Verger. When Verger was a young man busted for raping children, his vast wealth saved him from jail. All he needed was psychotherapy--with Dr. Lecter. Thanks to the treatment, Verger is now on a respirator, paralyzed except for one crablike hand, watching his enormous, brutal moray eel swim figure eights and devour fish. His obsession is to feed Lecter to some other brutal pets.
What happens when the Italian cop gets alone with Hannibal? How does Clarice's reunion with Lecter go from macabre to worse? Suffice it to say that the plot is Harris's weirdest, but it still has his signature mastery of realistic detail. There are flaws: Hannibal's madness gets a motive, which is creepy but lessens his mystery. If you want an exact duplicate of The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice/Hannibal duel, you'll miss what's cool about this book--that Hannibal is actually upstaged at points by other monsters. And if you think it's all unprecedentedly horrible, you're right. But note that the horrors are described with exquisite taste. Harris's secret recipe for success is restraint. --Tim Appelo
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