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Thomas Harris created the infamous Hannibal Lector in Red Dragon he couldn't have known the influence that character would have on crime fiction for the next decade.
By the time he came to write Hannibal, ten years after his previous book, The Silence of The Lambs, he must have felt some serious pressure.
The fact that Hannibal is the book it is, when written under these circumstances, makes it all the more remarkable,
To call it a crime novel is doing it a grave injustice and reading it as such will also leave the reader disappointed, This book sits closer to Stoker's Dracula or Shelly's Frankenstein than the serial killer fare of Michael Connelly, Treat this book more as gothic fairytale and you won't be disappointed,
The greatest triumph of The Silence of The Lambs is, as iconic as the film version is, it scarecely registers as you read the book.
You are taken into another world and any thought of Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins are gone, The same is true of Hannibal, and then some, Hannibal happens to be one of my favorite fictional characters and with this book I became more enamored with him, Yes, it's twisted but me likes him a lot!! First half of the book:stars
Second half:THAT ENDING OH MY GOD I'm emotionally drained This is the third instalment in the Hannibal Lecter series.


I might have put this book down for a whole month but then I binged through over half of it in a single day, so make of that what you will.


I have a difficult time saying I 'enjoyed' this book, given the dark topics it focused on, . . but that was exactly my concluding reaction, Harris takes the readers across the globe and through a multitude of perspectives to deliver a fullyfleshed examination of Hannibal Lecter's return to the forefront of the FBIs attention.
It kept me guessing and grossed out, and the insights were all brief which also ensured I kept the pages turning, Siete anos han pasado desde que Clarice Starling, agente especial del FBI, se entrevistara con el doctor Hannibal Lecter en un hospital de maxima seguridad, Y siete anos desde que Hannibal el Canibal burlara la vigilancia y desapareciera dejando una sangrienta estela de victimas, Sin embargo, cuando Clarice cae en desgracia en el FBI, el doctor Lecter sale a la luz para ponerse en contacto con ella, Asi se reanuda la persecucion de la codiciada presa, y Clarice, que no ha olvidado su encuentro con la brillante y perversa mente del doctor, es encargada del caso.
DD Hated it passionately. This is that rare case where books are even worse than films, if you can believe it, I don't know whatever possessed me to flip through this series, Thankfully, that entity demon of boredom cluelesness was swiftly exorcised by pretty average writing, plot with Boeingsized holes were we really supposed to believe in vanishing special agents who almost no one conveniently gives a damn about and nauseating characterbuilding.
So far this is a DNF, Left this unfinished and I don't think I'll ever return to it of my own free will, Or maybe I will, let's live and see about it,

This series felt a bit stupid, stilted, pretentious, even, It felt as if Lecter was made and MADE and freaking forced to look like an intellectual, And he didn't come across as one, Or maybe I'm judging intellect on a scale which includes the humanity factor, or lack thereof Not sure about that,

I didn't like the language,
The heroes felt without depth,
Or maybe I just don't like this concept due to severely disliking the TV snippets of this that have been irritating me to no end for ages.

The cannibal idea made me queasy, I can't fathom just how this stuff managed to give rise to that fan thing, where people would go on to even watch series on this topic.
It'a goddamn mystery to me, The fact that our protagonist happens to be severely intellectual changes nothing for me, It doesn't add him any charm or any jenesaisquoi or whatever it was that made this stuff popularish, Personally, I don't give a damn if a cannibal killer is an illuminating person or not, And a true intellectual Don't think he was, I'm sure such an illuminated thinker might have found some other stuff to eat besides fellow humans, if only to be left alone by the society to pursue their ohsodeep intellectual endeavours.


The story with Clarice was, uh, nauseating, How do you really craft a supposedly love story or whatever it was even supposed to look like! out of a story line with chemically assisted brainwashing That's what it truly was, things should be called their own names!!! And I don't really give a damn about Dr.
Lecter's string theory equations was that supposed to make him more likeable, him penning supposedly brilliant time physics while drugging Clarice out of her mind, It does not make me sympathise with him, not at all,

I'm not rating it so far because it feels worthy of ameasly star for the writer's effort and wasted time, nothing else, Still, all those fans, they couldn't have been totally mistaken about this series, Or could they I'll give it some time to sit with me, Maybe I missed something totally notable and earthshattering about it and will find it someday, . Hopefully, that will not be that sad day my shrink goes to his one, .

At this point, it's obvious to me that it was a mistake to read this, Note to self: I neet to be more scrupulous about choosing what I read, Otherwise I'm going to be investing a lot more of my time into stuff I find distasteful!

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She was in the garden of the hurricanes eye.
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She was awake and not awake, The bathroom was indeed comfortable and furnished with every amenity, In the following days she enjoyed long baths there, but she did not bother with her reflection in the mirror, so far was she from herself.
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“Mason is dead, ”
“Ummmm,” Starling said. “Would you play for me” c
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Starling had no sense of time, Over the days and nights there were the conversations, She heard herself speaking for minutes on end, and she listened,
Sometimes she laughed at herself, hearing artless revelations that normally would have mortified her, The things she told Dr, Lecter were often surprising to her, sometimes distasteful to a normal sensibility, but what she said was always true, And Dr. Lecter spoke as well. In a low, even voice, He expressed interest and encouragement, but never surprise or censure, c
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Sometimes they looked at a single bright object together to begin their talks, almost always there was but a single light source in the room.
From day to day the bright object changed, c Oh, yes, YES! The fact they they might have hypnotised each other, or gotten selfhypnotised together or whatever that was, is supposed to make this special, I'm sure.
Kidding!
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Dr, Lecter seemed to sense their arrival at an unexplored gallery in her mind, Perhaps he heard trolls fighting on the other side of a wall, c Made me think of all those insufferable 'internal goddess' references in theshades, Only here we get a gardenful of trolls instead! How unusual,
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He replaced the teapot with a silver belt buckle,
“Thats my daddys,” Starling said, She clapped her hands together like a child,
“Yes,” Dr. Lecter said. “Clarice, would you like to talk with your father Your father is here, Would you like to talk with him”
“My daddys here! Hey! All right!” c Vomitinducing, This is exactly what I say when I see people so fascinated with all the shiny badges of merit, such as Doctor, Professor, President, etc, that they would miss what is right in front of them, This is a travesty of psychology, And 'Dr. Lecter' is no doctor,
he might have been one at some point or not! but he is not one, after indulging in all his hobbies.

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The monster settled back a micron in his chair, c For once, a correct reference,
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Mr, Krendler is joining us for our first course, c Nasty! NASTY! I'm not going to give the detailed details here but they are extremely nasty, This is probably the worst thing I have ever read, Gross!
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Dr, Lecter and Clarice Starling often talk at dinner in languages other than Starlings native English, She had college French and Spanish to build on, and she has found she has a good ear, They speak Italian a lot at mealtimes she finds a curious freedom in the visual nuances of the language, c Once again, a

pitiful attempt at either intellectuality or closeness: 'Oh, yeah, so they speakforeign languages, they found each other, the intellectual soulmates, SQUEAAL!' For one thing, I don't think a couple of people with the depicted level of issues to put it very mildly! would be able or even want to get really close to each other.
And there are lots of true polyglots out there, who have mastered a lot more languages and don't think it anything fancy, A very lame scene.
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Their relationship has a great deal to do with the penetration of Clarice Starling, which she avidly welcomes and encourages, . . Sex is a splendid structure they add to every day, c Uhhuh, of her own free will, of course, NOT,
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It is hard to know what Starling remembers of the old life, what she chooses to keep, The drugs that held her in the first days have had no part in their lives for a long time, Nor the long talks with a single light source in the room, c So, we are informed that the gal has been weaned off the drugs but is still on hypnosis, Good to know kidney failure might not be her next option, Still, I'm not really sure what purpose this achieves, ethic or aesthethic, Are we supposed to conclude at this point that hypnosis brainwashing is good for one's psyche
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Well withdraw now, while they are dancing on the terracethe wise Barney has already left town and we must follow his example.
For either of them to discover us would be fatal,
We can only learn so much and live, c I can't help thinking it would have been best had I continued ignoring this series, One of my favourite books of all time pure quality, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD !!!! Hannibal by Thomas Harris is therd book in the Hannibal Lector series and I need more this is my favourite and I think the best one of the series.

It's more creepy, more edge of your seat thrilling and a little more gory/scary starving boars/ wild pig's and people eating and threating to eat people enough said oh did I forget the big twist at the end
This series is a series I recommend for everyone to read , The film's/TV series do a great job but we get a lot more insight into the characters.

Hannibal Lector is definitely the character we love to hate, Or is that just me,