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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. KyleeKat | Jun 23, 2009 |   I really like Harris's suspenseful writing style and his story. It's compelling. But: - His using third person point of view then switching to omniscient narrator then back to third person was annoying; not to mention confusing. *Spoiler* - The ending seemed rushed. I liked the catharsis of killing the bad FBI guy, but to have spunky, single-minded Starling just fall in with Lecter seemed far-fetched to me. I can get brainwashing. I can get emotional destruction. But I just couldn't see her (after reading Lambs as well as her mind-frame in this book) turning her back on herself and becoming Lecter's bitch. Knowing Starling, I'd see her fight out of the brainwashing, ending with Lecter having to eat his own liver with fava beans while Starling sat back and drank a nice Chianti. Then she'd calmly say, "How dare you impersonate my daddy." The blued gun barrel spits and Lecter's red eyes are gone forever. (  )Scaryguy | Dec 17, 2008 | My favourite of the Hannibal Lecter novels. I read the book and never saw the film, and as a result, the world of Lecter was shaped before me. The imagery Harris uses is vivid and creative, I can still now see the eel in the glass tank looping into a figure of 8. Definitely one of my favourite books of all time. I was thinking about this book for weeks even after I finished reading it. (  )kezumi | Jul 6, 2008 | 1  Thomas Harris is an excellent suspense writer. I love this series. I think Red Dragon was my favorite, but this is a clase second. I can't believe I was rooting for a cannibalistic serial killer, but GO HANNIBAL!!! ( )Djupstrom | Apr 24, 2008 | I thought I had to add this book to my library and could only tag it as a notable book. It was most certainly a memorable book, if only because it is so awful.I felt like I needed to take a week long shower after finishing this book. I think that the author has been caught up in the "Hollywood-ization" of his work, and so he simply cranked out the most violent and incomprehensible swill he could come up with to make into an also disgusting movie. Until this book, I've enjoyed all of Thomas Harris books. I almost wondered if this was a "[descriptive word] you" to all the greedy movie types. You know the old--"You want a movie, fine.. I'll give you a stinking movie...Why I actually read this whole book is beyond me, it was simply a terrible book.... (  )NovelBookworm | Mar 22, 2008 | 0.060 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 038529929X, Hardcover)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, then makes a bloody, brilliant escape.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 (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Hannibal and Clarice forever! (