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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I got the book when it initially came out, aboout 10 years after Silence of the Lambs had been published, knowing that they were already filming Hannibal. I thought it had the potential to be visually stunning - all those Italian scenes, but was also disturbed by the canniabilitic parts, especially at the end. Needless to say it spooked me enough not to see the film This book was a chore to read. I found it oddly written with great detail on nothing in particular. At 103 chapters, it jumped around far too often focusing on multiple characters but the story inched forward laboriously. Character history is crammed down our throats chapter after chapter to what end? The chapters read more like movie scenes - one as short as a page - to explain tedious actions that would be one sentence in other books. I ultimately was only interested in Clarice and Lecter, but oddly enough we spend so little time with either that I forgot what book I was reading. This book should be called Verger. It's okay though because Starling and Lecter barely act like themselves anyway. They are largely pulled along by the stumbling plot to a highly questionable ending. Lol, I really did not enjoy this book at all. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:Invite Hannibal Lecter into the palace of your mind and be invited into his mind palace in turn. Note the similarities in yours and his, the high vaulted chambers of your dreams, the shadowed halls, the locked storerooms where you dare not go, the scrap of half-forgotten music, the muffled cries from behind a wall. In one of the most eagerly anticipated literary events of the decade, Thomas Harris takes us once again into the mind of a killer, crafting a chilling portrait of insidiously evolving evilā??a tour de force of psychological suspense. Seven years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter escaped from custody, seven years since FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling interviewed him in a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane. The doctor is still at large, pursuing his own ineffable interests, savoring the scents, the essences of an unguarded world. But Starling has never forgotten her encounters with Dr. Lecter, and the metallic rasp of his seldom-used voice still sounds in her dreams. Mason Verger remembers Dr. Lecter, too, and is obsessed with revenge. He was Dr. Lecter's sixth victim, and he has survived to rule his own butcher's empire. From his respirator, Verger monitors every twitch in his worldwide web. Soon he sees that to draw the doctor, he must have the most exquisite and innocent-appearing bait; he must have what Dr. Lecter likes best. Powerful, hypnotic, utterly original, Hannibal is a dazzling feast for the imagination. Prepare to travel to hell and beyond as a master storyteller permanently alters the world you thought you knew. From the Hardcover edition. No library descriptions found. |
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