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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Wonderful book to start off the series. Though Dr. Hannibal Lecter was not talked about much through out Red Dragon, it's made up for in the second book. (  )KyleeKat | Jun 23, 2009 |   At the time of this book's publication (and even when the movie Manhunter) was released, the gruesomeness of the crimes depicted were shocking and extreme. Unfortunately, since then, real killers such as Dahmer and BTK make this novel's killer seem less terrible than at the time. However, the book still stands the test of time well. Harris is building up to Silence of the Lambs, which is certainly one of the best novels of its genre. Lecter's character is introduced, and it's a good opening volume in the arc. (  )tororojo | Jun 10, 2009 | I actually liked this better than Thomas Harris's other Hannibal Lecter books -- though Silence of the Lambs was excellent also. I really got a sympathetic feeling for both Francis Dolarhyde and Will Graham. Oh, and the movie was good too. (  )meggyweg | Mar 4, 2009 | The best of the Hannibel Lecter books. It starts the story and is problably the best written and scariest of all of Harris' books. The movie was good, but this will keep you awake at nights. (  )pictou | Jan 30, 2009 | A chilling introduction to a world on the edge of sanity. Perfectly capturing the premillenium tension while opening new avenues of terror. I won't give a away the plot, because watching it all unfold is one of the wonders of the book. As a former newspaper writer Harris knows how to grip the readers attention, then lead them down toward scary yet compelling darkness. While this story marks the debut of the iconic Hannibal, this is about so much more. A tale of transformation,manipulation, duty and redemption, the plot is ingeniously woven. The characterisation is amazing and incisive, inner thoughts and motivations are errie, and dare I say it is almost enough to justify their disturbing actions. An insight into the deranged mind of a genius killer. This story that will haunt you long after you turn the final page. (  )kevin277 | Nov 13, 2008 | 0.048 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com (ISBN 0440206154, Mass Market Paperback)Lying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumas's Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine open on his chest, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs. As in Silence, the pulse-pounding suspense plot involves a hypersensitive FBI sleuth who consults psycho psychiatrist Lecter for clues to catching a killer on the loose.The sleuth, Will Graham, actually quit the FBI after nearly getting killed by Lecter while nabbing him, but fear isn't what bugs him about crime busting. It's just too creepy to get inside a killer's twisted mind. But he comes back to stop a madman who's been butchering entire families. The FBI needs Graham's insight, and Graham needs Lecter's genius. But Lecter is a clever fiend, and he manipulates both Graham and the killer at large from his cell. That killer, Francis Dolarhyde, works in a film lab, where he picks his victims by studying their home movies. He's obsessed with William Blake's bizarre painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, believing there's a red dragon within him, the personification of his demonic drives. Flashbacks to Dolarhyde's terrifying childhood and superb stream-of-consciousness prose get us right there inside his head. When Dolarhyde does weird things, we understand why. We sympathize when the voice of the cruel dead grandma who raised and crazed him urges him to mayhem--she's way scarier than that old bat in Psycho. When he falls in love with a blind girl at the lab, we hope he doesn't give in to Grandma's violent advice. This book is awesomely detailed, ingeniously plotted, judiciously gory, and fantastically imagined. If you haven't read it, you've never had the creeps. --Tim Appelo (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:24 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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