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false <![CDATA[Hannibal]]> 32418 52 Hannibal. Dr Hannibal Lecter. "A brief silence follows the name, always, in any civilized gathering," wrote Thomas Harris at the beginning of his stunning The Silence of the Lambs in 1988. You don't want him in your head, you don't want you in his head. Now, a decade later, Lecter is back--ready to take up his place as one of the cult figures of contemporary fiction. Almost a modern myth, in fact, if the scale, and thrill, of the publication of Hannibal is anything to go by. Harris's book is "news": not only "book news" but "real" news, one of the biggest publishing events of the decade in terms of print run (one million copies worldwide), film rights (Hollywood has paid six million dollars for the book: Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore will star) and cultural cachet. The serial killer--like his counterpart, the psychologist-profiler--is a figure for our times; "In the contemporary mind," as one psychoanalyst, Christopher Bollas, has put it, "the serial killer is the statement of evil". Psychiatrist and killer, Lecter gives a peculiar twist to that evil (and Harris has always been interested in the precarious division between killer and cure). In Red Dragon, published in 1981, Will Graham was one of the first of the fictional profilers thinking and feeling his way into the minds of the killers he pursued. Behind bars, Lecter was a charged, but compelling, presence--an enigma who promised to be a key to psychopathic crime if only someone were genius enough to understand him. Jack Crawford tried, and then Clarice Starling. Now, as if in response to those who wanted to know more, comes Hannibal, a novel which constantly threatens to bring Lecter to life through its (sometimes grisly) pages. "Dr. Hannibal Lecter's fingerprint card is a curiosity and something of a cult object": Harris is the one who knows, who has "been there", and takes his readers into Lecter's world of curious courtesy and exquisite taste, sickening cruelty and loving murder. Both Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs were masterpieces of plot and suspense; though complex and plotted, this is rather more "Hannibal's book": no-one who wants to know, and suffer with, Lecter--his past victims, his past life, his strange feelings for Starling--can miss this brilliant piece of mythmaking. --Vicky Lebeau 2992500 1999 Hannibal total:6463|5:1151|4:1818|3:2019|2:973|1:502| 6463 21532 7712 352 1 5 false false Wed Aug 22 09:29:48 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 09:32:58 -0700 2007 Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs. Loved them. I enjoyed the movies, too: the movie version of Silence of the Lambs scared the pee out of me, and even so, I didn’t want it to end. So, long years later when I finally got hold of a copy of Hannibal, I ...more...]]> 1 3 false false Tue Jul 10 06:58:55 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 10:03:24 -0700 2007
Both Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs are formidable pieces of pop fiction. They are well-written thrillers with great descriptions and characters. They were both adapted into great movies. They made Thomas Harris a very rich man.
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If when I was 400 pages into this read you asked me who I'd rate it, I would have replied that while it is a pretty sellar read it is definetely the weakest of Harris' Hannibal novels. Now that I've finished it I would dare mention that not only is it the weakest book Harri...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 07:37:47 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 08:06:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false true Sat Feb 16 10:30:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 05:53:50 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 06:00:41 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false true Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 13:54:46 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 15:39:58 -0800 2009
Seven years after the events in SILENCE OF THE LAMBS we come face-t...more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed May 20 13:43:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 10:50:27 -0700 2009
The characters and their actions are explained to death and all possible suspension n...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 1999 Thu Jan 15 22:20:54 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 22:20:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Thu Jul 26 20:12:02 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 20:12:02 -0700 2007 silence of the lambs and red dragon. to hell with being a completist, i will not be adding hannibal rising to my collection.]]> 1 2 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Mar 30 06:18:04 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 06:30:07 -0700 2008 1 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 01:55:01 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 01:59:34 -0700 2009
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A really good book let down by a relative dodgy ending (Although no where near as bad as the film).

Following on from the silence of the lambs this book delves more into the psyche of the lead character which makes for fantistic reading. The book does not lose pac...more...]]> 3 0 false true Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Jul 22 07:24:30 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 07:36:42 -0700 2009 1
if you plan to read do not read this review

Learning the agenda and why behind Hannibal is well so "Hannibal" is a key piece of information. If you liked silence of the lambs and want to know the back story of Hannibal by all means read this.
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Short chapters. Six pages per chapter, yet Harris appears to say all that's needed; this is something that I sorely need to learn, verbose and clumsy with my writing.

After reading "The Silence of the Lambs" & "Red Dragon", I see no reason why this boo...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 22 14:13:46 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 14:17:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 12 04:36:19 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 04:48:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=32418