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Blaine
“Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.”
I first read this book in the early 1990s, before The Silence of the Lambs movie came out. Red Dragon was an incredible read, fresh and original. As a reread, when you know what is going to happen, it’s not quite as good. The book also suffers a bit because over the last 30 years, FBI profiling has become commonly understood and used in books, movies, and TV exhaustively. But my original rating stands. If you’ve never
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Colleen
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Kylie
Mar 10, 2013 rated it it was ok
Shelves: crime
Anne
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Nikki
Jul 11, 2021 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Rijuta
Dec 29, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Arto
Jan 07, 2014 marked it as to-read
Jimmie
Jan 24, 2015 marked it as to-read
Shelves: thomas-harris
E.S.
Jul 29, 2015 marked it as to-read
Melissa
Aug 15, 2015 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 1990s
Jess
Jul 15, 2016 marked it as to-read
Harini
Jul 12, 2018 marked it as owned-to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: i-own
Amy
Dec 21, 2018 marked it as to-read
Julie
Nov 19, 2020 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Holly
Feb 14, 2021 marked it as to-read
britt
Mar 11, 2021 marked it as to-read
Stacy
Feb 10, 2023 marked it as to-read
Shelves: audiobook, dnf, own, horror
Natarez
Jul 24, 2025 marked it as to-read
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