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    Hannibal

    Written by Thomas Harris

    Narrated by Daniel Gerroll

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    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 evil-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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 5, 2000
    ISBN9780553751062
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    Hannibal
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    Thomas Harris

    Thomas Harris is the author of best-selling novels including The Silence of the Lambs, Black Sunday, Red Dragon, Hannibal and Hannibal Rising.

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    • 2/5
      Disappointing.
    • 2/5
      Something about this novel threw me off. I found the meter and tone very difficult to get by. Does not seem like it was written very well. The story is great....but compared to Silence it reads like a five year old wrote it.
    • 4/5
      Review: If Silence of the Lambs didn’t raise the hair on your neck Hannibal will set it on fire. However, I have my limits and this thriller jumped the boundary from believability into fantasy. Freud should have analyzed Hannibal Lector before dinner as Freud would have been the entrée.Quality: Well-written just not my kind of story.
    • 3/5
      A pretty good conclusion to the Hannibal Lecter series, but definitely lacks the energy and drive of Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs. Although some additional insight into Hannibal's background is much appreciated, I felt that it could have been explored a bit further and with more tension (but I'm assuming that will be fully covered in Hannibal Rising). The most interesting characters were actually Mason and Margot Verger. Their dysfunctional family unit left the biggest impact.
    • 3/5
      I liked everything up until the end of the book, which I just couldn't swallow as believeable enough.
    • 5/5
      Great book - much better ending than film version. Bravo
    • 5/5
      Excessive, absurd, worth the time. The movies SOTL and Hannibal made it unclear why the world's most interesting man would be interested in Clarisse, but this makes sense of that.

      SOTL is a better story, but this is more fun because so much time is spent on Lector's hobbies, habits, and eccentricities. But he's too James Bond, being too powerful for a small old man.

      The story reader is a little uneven, unlike the reader of the anniversary edition of SOTL, but he's mostly committed and competent.

      A really fun piece. Anyone who enjoyed the movies or the TV series who hasn't done so already should check this out.
    • 5/5
      Can't find a better thriller than this series. Creepy though.
    • 2/5
      Something about this novel threw me off. I found the meter and tone very difficult to get by. Does not seem like it was written very well. The story is great....but compared to Silence it reads like a five year old wrote it.
    • 5/5
      I love this book and have read it many times over the years. I recently started listening to the audio version and decided I had to reread it again.
    • 4/5
      Interesting end, but am not comfortable with the fate of Starling.
    • 3/5
      More enjoyable than I expected it to be. Though those last couple of chapters ...
    • 2/5
      The end was like a weird psychotic fantasy. It didn't make sense for Clarice as a character. The writing was excellent, but it was disappointing.
    • 5/5
      the audio app is shit but even scribd couldn't ruin Hannibal. though masons voice, ick
    • 2/5
      I have not read or seen "Silence of the Lambs" (or any of the other Hannibal Lecter books--I didn't realize there were so many in the series until I looked this one up here.)I think reading the series in order might give you more background information, but overall, you don't have to have read the preceding books to get through this one.The prose reminds me a bit of Dan Brown's books without the puzzles for the hero to solve. I wasn't quite sure what the point of the novel was: don't leave your victims alive so they can seek retribution? don't let the desire for revenge take over your life? evil always repays evil with evil? Basically, many forces combine to put Clarice Starling into Hannibal Lechter's grasp--where it remains to be seen if she will stay. Along the way, Lechter settles the score with several would be assassins, others who want to sabotage Clarice's career, and provides the scapegoat for a sister who wants to kill her brother and take his semen to impregnate her significant other to ensure that their child inherits the Verger fortune. I found the writing style dry and hard to get through. It took me a long time to get through the book--longer than it usually takes me to read a work of fiction.
    • 4/5
      Losing a bit of steam for me.
    • 1/5
      A failed novel.
    • 1/5
      Okay, let me confess up front: I loved 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 really, really, wanted to love it, too.

      But I didn’t.

      Well, that’s not entirely true. If I pretend that this wasn’t a sequel about characters I already know, then I can find some bright spots. The book has some fantastic descriptions of Italy. There are certainly some creepy scenes that gave me the shivers. I was fascinated by the concept of the memory cathedral. And I felt terribly bad for poor Clarice as her world crumbled in around her. The problem is, none of the characters seem remotely connected to the folks we met before.

      Hannibal Lecter, an enigma in previous installments, now has a background. It’s tragic and horrifying, but is it enough to form the Hannibal we all know? Maybe. But even if it is, do we really have to know the details of why Lecter is who he is? I’m not convinced that this information makes him a more compelling character.

      Clarice Starling, whose wagon was hitched to a rising star at the end of Silence, is on the verge of being pushed out of the FBI. She has been overlooked again and again for promotion and is reduced to being scapegoated by talentless superiors.

      Jack Crawford, a hero and mentor in the previous books, is now (for the short time he appears here) a liability.

      I understand that people change, but come on. So what happened? What changed between the publication of The Silence of the Lambs and the publication of Hannibal? Well, what changed was the character of Hannibal Lecter. In both Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal was a minor (though quite compelling) character. Harris went to great pains to point out that, although clever and extremely cunning, Lecter was not omniscient. There was always an explanation as to how he knew the things he did, and Crawford was equally clever at figuring it out. Enter Jonathan Demme.

      When Jonathan Demme made the movie version of Silence, he said that he wanted the audience to believe that Lecter was the smartest man alive. It didn’t matter how he knew the things he did—he just knew. And to the credit of both Demme and Anthony Hopkins, it worked. The movie firmly established Lecter’s genius, and in the context of the film, it was brilliant: you never have to explain how Lecter gets his information, and his outrageous escape becomes plausible. Besides, the smarter Lecter is the more the audience worries about Clarice. Hopkins’ performance firmly established a picture in our minds of who Lecter was and how he worked.

      Enter Thomas Harris, trying to write a sequel to a phenomenally popular book, which was also a hugely successful movie. Now everyone thought of Anthony Hopkins when they thought of Hannibal Lecter, and they believed he was the smartest psycho alive. Instead of writing about his own Hannibal, he tried to write about the Demme/Hopkins Hannibal, and that just didn’t leave him anyplace to go but over the top, which is a crying shame. The book collapses under the sheer magnitude of what we are expected to accept about these characters and where they end up.
    • 5/5
      The only reason Clarice loved him was because he drugged and her and messed with her mind. I couldn't put this book down after around page 250 or so, but the beginning dragged on..
    • 2/5
      Putting aside the implausible ending, the book was decently written. However, I think Hannibal as a character works better as a twisted "side kick" (like he did in Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs) than the villian of focus. Also the Italian detective was not as fleshed out as much as Graham and Starling, so I think Harris failed there as well. I missed the cat-and-mouse dialogue between Lecter and Graham/Starling. I preferred the presence of another serial killer in the story, making Lecter almost a "good guy" by helping the FBI. I love being tricked by a writer into sympathizing with an essentially evil person. It means they've done their job! Sadly, this book failed.
    • 4/5
      his style morphs a lot from book to book, but that's kinda interesting in itself. very flat tones in Red Dragon. followed by flat tones with overlay of pretty self-conscious prettifying in Silence of the Lambs. followed by flat tones with ornate headdressing, some of it positively baroque, in Hannibal. but you can always recognize in it his voice, possibly literally.{g}i was right with Harris all the way through, up to that denouement fugue. enjoyed the style, and the unexpected look at Hannibal au natural in uncaptivity. he was almost, you might say, the hero, beset on all sides, elegant and neat in all his solutions. i grew fond of him, really. and the glimpses of that origin story shed new light. meanwhile Clarice's travails were unfortunately spot-on, with dysfunctional orgs, revenge of lesser men in several senses, a magnificent asset wasted - and it all seemed to mesh pretty well with the period and with the known history of the various orgs involved in decline.of course i knew perfectly well he was setting her up. she needed a victim to save, he provided one. fascinating to see to what extent he was willing to go personally in that respect. and then he gave her a tableau that meshed perfectly with her training to use as a killing field. i loved it when he walked with her through the pigs. and he broke her then off her own actions, and not his. very well done.but that sojourn after, i balked at it, it didn't quite ring true to me. did she want to surrender? maybe. but certainly drug cocktails will only carry you so far into that kind of afterlife. it felt artificial. so did the whole comparison to Mischa, the little sister, for that matter, though that did shed some light on where Hannibal might have gone with Mischa later in childhood, had she survived. and a large problem remained with the characterization of Clarice, not a natural victim. that ending removed all the qualities that made her Clarice, her ability to think on her feet, adapt to circumstances, survive, keep fighting to the end to save herself. in a way it's remarkable that Hannibal managed that and kept her alive, but going there destroyed the structural integrity of that character, and i think thereby the structural integrity of the story.
    • 5/5
      I kept putting off reading this, because I was afraid of being disappointed after having seen the film. I was NOT disappointed! It was very difficult to put down, and even though I was familiar with the plot and everything from the film, I still found myself wondering how it was going to turn out. My desire to read this at this moment came mostly from my current writing project. I need some creepy bad guys, and of all in literature, film, etc., Hannibal is one of the first to come to mind in a tie with Cormac McCarthy's creepy creation: Anton Chigur in No Country for Old Men. Looking forward to reading the rest of the Hannibal Lecter novels and hope they are as much of a charge as this one was.
    • 5/5
      This is definitely the most brilliant of the trilogy (if you can call it that with 'Hannibal Rising') I love the end... so much better than the movie.
    • 3/5
      I'm realizing that I really dislike Harris the more I read him and read of him. This was most certainly the worst thing of his that I read. And, shockingly, I actually prefer a lot of the movie changes over the book.Harris made a pretty big blunder fairly early on. The section chief of Behavioral Science asked Starling if Hannibal "liked her." Um, he's a sociopath, through & through. Sociopaths don't like people, sociopaths don't feel emotions the way the rest of us do. I sincerely hope that the chief of this department would be quite aware of this fact. Otherwise, wow, how did he ever get his job?? And then, this same issue recurs in the end, in another form. While I enjoy the series (it's rare for crime novels to focus so intently on a genius sociopath monster, and to even make him into a character you actually kind of like, and respect (albeit keeping a wary distance); it's different and intriguing), it just gets worse over time. I'm a little worried about reading Hannibal Rising, but since it's supposed to be a prequel, I guess I don't have to worry about Harris stretching trying to make the relationship between Clarice and Hannibal work somehow.I found a lot of fault with him reading this one, which may be slightly colored by having read Monster of Florence and getting an idea of his personality (which was none too pleasing in the eyes of the Italians he offended), but it's more than that. There was a lot of things, such as his trying to use "fancy" words all the time, rather than how humans actually speak. And I don't mean Lecter, it was the narration doing it. For example Clarice (I believe) passed by a medicine cabinet and it was noted that there was lots of "unguents" instead of just saying salves, I mean come on, no one is impressed by having to find a dictionary for something that does not remotely need a special word! And then there's the fact that, while still ruthless, Lecter is completely not himself about Clarice. And the end, ack, the movie definitely had the right end; the end was so not remotely true to the characters and so frustrating.I'd really only suggest the serious Lecter fan may want to read this, to finish the story line. But even then, you may just want to stick with the movie.
    • 1/5
      Just awful! And awfully boring! Harris also succeeded in totally destroyed Clarice's character and removing Hannibal's mystic. Not a book for the fans of 'Red Dragon' or 'Silence of the Lambs'.

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    • 5/5
      Hannibal by Thomas HarrisOMG, The movie made me shiver and shake with shock....However the book!!! Whew! This is probably the scariest book I’ve ever encountered. It is a good thing It is an eBook otherwise I would not have been able to read it because my hands were shaking too much. This is a must read for the thrill-seeking, serial-killing, sadist-murdering, cannibal-fan reader. I am sick enough to be all three-on paper only. I certainly do not want to meet Hannibal in person. If he ever invites you to dinner find out what is on the menu first.
    • 3/5
      An engrossing book.
      However, there are too many revolting and gory details that undermine the basic plot and the ending is just unacceptable.
    • 1/5
      Man, this book was just terrible.
    • 2/5
      Disappointing after Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs, which were good of their kind.

      The opening scene in the fish market reeds like a film script, which is either good or bad depending on your view.

      Lector is presented as a rather glamorous figure, aside from his homicidal tendencies. This could be seen as an extra layer of complexity to his character, or some misguided attempt to make him more sympathetic - a misunderstood anti-hero rather than the monstrous villain he is. It didn't ring true with me.

      The other serial killer, the one who drinks children's tears (really? Isn't that a bit heavy-handed?) is a two-dimensional very bad man.

      And what was with Clarice Starling? I do not buy that ending at all! (Well, actually, I did buy it, the book that is, but I didn't keep it: no chance of me wanting to re-read.)

      All of which is annoying, as Harris can clearly do better and this could have been an excellent novel if he hadn't fallen in love with Hannibal Lector and let himself get carried away, rather like Clarice.
    • 3/5
      I was very disappointed in this continuation of Hannibal Lecter's story, which I read when it was first published. In my opinion, the characters did not remain true to themselves; their arcs took unwarranted and unsupported turns. I also thought this book was over-the-top in terms of the ick factor, so much so that I wondered when reading it if Thomas Harris were simply giving the middle finger to his fans. I don't think that anymore, but still the story seems contrived, not a story that Harris wanted to tell but one that he felt he had to tell just to satisfy everyone. The movie adaptation was actually somewhat better than the book, despite Julianne Moore's horrendous acting, because it was toned down (although it remained quite stomach-turning) and the ending was [SPOILER] completely reversed. What the book and the movie both failed to do was to convey that creeping, disquieting sense of horror that had made me a fan of Harris's writing in the first place, and in this way they did not at all live up to the previous two books in the series and their subsequent film adaptations.