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    HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERS
    IN ALL OF LITERATURE.

    AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVIL
    IS REVEALED.

    Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck.

    He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him.

    Hannibal's uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle's beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki.

    Lady Murasaki helps Hannibal to heal. With her help he flourishes, becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France.

    But Hannibal's demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn.

    He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death's prodigy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateDec 5, 2006
    ISBN9780739321065
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    • 4/5
      The least satisfying of the Hannibal novels for me.
    • 3/5
      This wasn't as tense and thrilling as the other books in the Hannibal series. I'm not sure it made me believe that the things that happened in Hannibal's youth were enough to turn him into the monster that he became, but it's a long time since I read the other books so I may not be giving it enough credit.
    • 2/5
      The novel is slightly better than the film, but that's not saying much. The characterization in this novel is not nearly as compelling as what I remember from the previous Lecter novels. Even sadder, there are several openings throughout the novel for deeper characterization which were not utilized. The writing is distractingly sloppy at moments -- at one point, a character is described by comparison to a actor. If you're a fan of series, it might be worth picking up used for beach reading.
    • 1/5
      I tried so hard to finish this book, but it just did not hold my interest. The pace was too slow and there were just so many unimportant details. It's such a shame because I loved the rest of the series.
    • 4/5
      Amazing...true, it's sympathy for the devil, but amazingly rendered.
    • 4/5
      The least satisfying of the Hannibal novels for me.
    • 3/5
      Thomas Harris had the unenviable task of following up on his blockbuster The Silence of the Lambs after a long hiatus. Although Hannibal delivered to a large extent, his prequel Hannibal Rising fell short of both the original and the sequel. The story is set in Lithuania in World War II where Hannibal is a boy. He witnesses the death of his sister, Mischa, from the hands of soldiers. The story then shifts to France, where his uncle has adopted him. His uncle’s wife, the exotic Lady Murasaki, takes Hannibal under his wing and educates him, helping bring him back from the horror he had experienced as a boy. When he is old enough, Hannibal vows revenge on his sister’s killer – and he does it in the most vile way possible.There were certain things about the novel I liked. Although the style doesn’t quite match the earlier novels, it does fit the narrative. Harris’s prose is quite good, and the read is fairly easy. Where the novel suffers the most is in characterization. Hannibal Lecter is the greatest character I have come across in literature, but in this novel lacks the spark that made him so vibrant in past novels. He just doesn’t have the same personality and vibrancy to his character. The plot also has serious holes. This is a decent novel, but not one you should go out of your way to read.Carl Alves – author of Blood Street
    • 2/5
      Not as shockingly bad as Hannibal, but rather unengaging and it left me meh.
    • 3/5
      the last and the first, i guess. this one goes deep into the making of H. though i still wonder if he came that way. his uncle says to him at one point that the Lecter men are made different. his impulse to revenge is completely understandable, and he's as efficient as a beginner as he is later. not a good child to be rude to, not a good man.the lady of the piece, Lady Murasaki, is quite interesting, though only seen here through H's eyes. like him, she is decisive, but her methods (and her limits) differ. she saves him (twice)(economically), gets a declaration even of love, sees in his face that love - much less stopping - is by that point in fact beyond him, and decamps back to Japan (also economical). women for him are either invisible or aspects of Mischa. his mother dies too, horribly, but it's his sister he chose at one specific moment to save - and then couldn't. which makes it plausible that in the (later)(earlier) books the Lady is never referred to. he made his promise to Mischa, precluding all other promises, and let that define him. she sees that, and she goes very far away.i liked it. the setting in 1940s wartime and post-wartime europe was well-done, all the characters including the victims well drawn. the prose was straightforward, workmanlike, not terribly suspenseful, and very flat - you'd think it was Harris's first book, not his last. distance, scrambling for distance. oh, i could do a profile of the author off his progress through this series.but ultimately we don't find out a whole lot more about our beloved monster than the previous book (Hannibal) offers up. it's like a sketch, fleshing out the scene in Lithuania. it almost feels like material that might have been excised from that book as extraneous. now we know all the places where Hannibal's skillset came from, where his tastes were formed. and something of the no-man's-land along the Eastern Front during the War, and what that carnage left behind in post-war Europe. good things, but a bit leaden. the author seems to have run out of things he wants to say.
    • 3/5
      Not overly memorable. I didn't even remember that I had read it until I watched the movie and knew everything that was going to happen. :>
    • 3/5
      2.5 starsThis is the prequel to the Hannibal Lecter books. This backs up in Hannibal's life to follow him as he grows up. I didn't really find it all that interesting, though there were moments. I should also mention that I've not read the other books (a friend loaned it to me – his suggestion – and said I didn't need to have read them to read this one; I would agree with that. Now, I have seen “Silence of the Lambs”.) I don't know if it was the writing style or what, but although things happened, it didn't seem like much was happening. The good part – although it is a large hardcover book, it was fast to read. The font is big and chapters short.
    • 4/5
      I think this is Harris' best work. Worth a second reading.
    • 2/5
      I barely got through this book. The writing was horrible. I loved the movie "Silence Of the Lambs" which is what prompted me to read this series. This book is a prequel to the other books so I started with it. It tells of what events happened in Hannibals life that lead him to become who he is. I couldn't make sense of this book though. The writing was so fragmented jumping all over the place and explaining nothing. I'm going to try the next book and hope it's better.
    • 1/5
      I have mixed feelings about this novel. As a stand-alone, it would certainly be very interesting, but it is a disappointment when placed in the Hannibal-tradition. It misses the suspense, the attention for detail, the quirky angle we know so well from Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. The author's lack of passion shows: little to no details or explorations, all rather shallow, a routine job. On top of the obvious lack of joy in writing, it just doesn't serve its purpose. I don't believe for a second that Hannibal is the person he is because of what happened in this novel. He didn't do those things only because of this. There has to be a more extensive explanation.
    • 4/5
      I wanted to finish reading the Hannibal series but was a bit apprehensive of this one after feeling a bit let down by the last book. This one was pleasantly surprising and I ended up enjoying it very much. My main concern with it was that I feel it probably didn't actually need to be a Hannibal Lecter book. Apart from the hints in the previous book it feels a long departure form the initial 2 books of series. The writing style of the author still remains very engaging and fluid and this makes the book a smooth and interesting read. Will look up the first book which he wrote because I've enjoyed reading this series a lot.
    • 1/5
      This book is truly awful.
    • 4/5
      Hannibal Rising is not the "scare fest" I expected it to be. Not like the other Hannibal books at all really. I found I could not put it down though.My interest in starting the book was to learn why Hannibal became "the monster". My attention to finish the book was because of the description of the times, the love for his sister, the remorse and angst, the intrigue.And then I cried. “The little boy Hannibal died in 1945 out there in the snow trying to save his sister. His heart died with Mischa. What is he now? There is not a word for it yet. For lack of a better word, we’ll call him a monster.” - Hannibal Rising, p. 243 I don't mean a small shed tear, like one would spill if they'd just READ something sad. I mean full on gails, that made me put the book away for a moment to gather myself. At that moment, my heart truely ached for the boy Hannibal, I grieved for and with him.The evoking of emotion is a neccessity for good writing. In my opinion this book is just that. GOOD WRITING.
    • 3/5
      Even though I loved The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, I put off reading this “prequel” because of how much I loathed Harris’ last book, Hannibal. I was glad I didn’t hate this, but I didn’t love it either. Hannibal Lecter’s childhood and adolescent experiences, while horrific, aren’t really horrific enough to explain why he became a monster, but neither is there enough evidence given to support the theory that he was born that way. Most of the novel is absorbed in a rather tedious revenge fantasy. I would like to see Harris apply his considerable talents to a new subject next time. It is by having strong counterpoint characters to Hannibal Lecter in Lambs and Dragon that made those novels so strong, I think. Let’s give Hannibal a rest.
    • 2/5
      Never meet your heros. You'll be disappointed.Dr Lecter tells us he once ate a census taker who tried to classify him. Harris should have listened to that and not gone poking about in the doctor's youth. I'm not suggesting that Harris should be cooked up with fava beans for writing this, but he should have left well alone. Instead of the fear and awe that the doctor inspires in Silence and Hannibal, young Hannibal is almost annoying. I was left with a stong sense of disappointment.
    • 3/5
      This is the story of Hannibal's life as a child, and the circumstances that shape his development. We know him as the popular Hannibal Lecter of 'The Silence Of The Lambs' fame, however his experiences as a child during the Second World War growing up in Lecter Castle, are very different from medical school later in life.Perhaps not as thrilling as I was hoping, there are several pieces of writing that have stayed with me long after finishing the book, which is a rarity for me. I will leave the 'scary bits' for you to discover on your own... however one funny line I will share: "Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis." Thomas Harris certainly has a way with words, and a macabre flair for plot.I enjoyed this book.
    • 5/5
      This book ticked all the boxes for me. Easy short chapters full of context and lacking in waffle.The rise of Hannibal Lecter is a story not to be missed. He has grown out of the slaughter of his parents and all those he holds dear and the ultimate mind-changer, the cannibalism of his younger sister by german sympathisers. All this is combined to give an absolutely unputdownable book.
    • 1/5
      What an awful addition to the series. I couldn't tell which came first the book or the film script. Seemed to me like Harris rushed the novel just so the movie could be made.
    • 4/5
      This book was crazy confusing and i didnt really follow it. I almost cried when i read about him theoretically murdering his nemisis' little girl, the one that wore his sister, Mischa's, bracelet. Then i read on and it was just a cow liver and heart. I was wierded out by him loving his aunt but i guess things like that go down more than we realize. The book, overall, was well thoughtout and put together nicely. All in all i'd rate it a 3 1/2.
    • 1/5
      Not the best of the Hannibal Lecter series. Honestly, as far as I'm concerned its not even part of the official series. In my mind it will always be a trilogy. However, I think Thomas Harris may have made it bad on purpose. The producers of the Lecter films were going to go ahead with a fourth film regardless of whether or not Harris was going to write a novel. I think he did this just so he could end it on his own terms.
    • 2/5
      This book has been rattling round the deep discount bargain bins for quite a while now. This must tell us something. The book-buying public do have a collective consciousness and in this case it chose to part with its cash for some Chianti and a few fava beans.The book is not a bad one. The problem is the whole premise of the origins or prequel genre. A general rule is, This Never Works (‘Butch & Sundance – The Early Years’, anyone?). Hannibal Lecter is a great creation who scares the bejeesus out of me when he appears in ‘Red Dragon’ and ‘Silence of the Lambs’ as the epitome of evil and desirable suavity. Explaining where his evil came from can only diminish Hannibal. Why be frightened of Hannibal when you can be frightened of the thing that makes Hannibal fear?Harris tries to get round this by setting the origin story in Hannibal’s childhood. The evil is just not expressed in an evil enough way. I kept thinking I was in a slightly darker Hogwart’s.Harris can write and I cannot say this is a bad book. The relationship with Lady Murasaki is a finely drawn younger-older warped fantasy. The only way this could have worked well is by piling on the gore. Harris and Hannibal are too gentlemanly for that.
    • 5/5
      It was a very refreshing story. For once, you can actually come to understand what made Hannibal Lecter the way he is. You get to crawl inside the past, and see what brought Lecter to his twisted mind.There are moments of sadness, moments of joy in Hannibal Rising. There is also that feeling of completion when you reach the end. You know that the story is finished. There is no need to bring about yet another sequel, the story is properly ended. Wonderful story, well written.I give this 5 out of 5 stars. This is a definite must read.
    • 5/5
      When I read in the introduction of this book that the movie of the same name came first, I didn't know what to expect. And where the movie fell flat, and was frankly horrible, the book went way beyond my expectations. I never thought I could possibly feel anything other than repulsion for a character like Hannibal Lecter, but this book proved me wrong. I felt for him, I wouldn't say sympathy, but you truly have some understanding how Dr.Lecter from Silence of the Lambs came about after reading this. This was a brilliant book, all I can say is that if you're looking at it, stop looking and read it.
    • 4/5
      From what I understand this was a rushed story by the author due to Dino DiLaurentiis wanting to film another movie on the character. Even so, I found the book very entertaining. This is the first book from the series that I've read, and I made the mistake of watching the movie directly after reading, which was a huge letdown. I think Thomas Harris has an innate ability to paint the scene very well, and DiLaurentiis' representation of the details on screen were much what I had imagined while reading. I see it was reviewed somewhat poorly here, but I think it's still worth the read if you like Hannibal Lecter.
    • 3/5
      Much like Hannibal was a disappointing follow-up to Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Rising is yet a further disappointment. Alone, it would be a fine work, but it is hard to live up to the second installment in the chronicle of Hannibal Lecter.
    • 4/5
      Hannibal Rising begins sketchily, but the sketches are beautiful, terrifying things. There is something both enchanting and awful in knowing that Hannibal the doting older brother to the adorable Mischa will one day – in a sense, has already – become Agent Starling’s Dr. Lector. Then Harris begins writing the story in a more prosaic form, and his flashes of literary genius, the sleek writing that made Hannibal Lector one of the most compelling creations in psychological thrillers, are sadly wanting. Some of the dullness is simply that without the suave completeness of the fully realised Dr. Lector, one’s attention is not as well held by this ‘burgeoning monster’… could it be because Harris is not giving it his all? He has a reasonable plot, replete with vengeance and guiding circumstance; he begins perfectly, drawing us into Hannibal’s boyhood and making us understand his earliest motivations, but once that boy reaches the orphanage that was the former home of his family, the balance between boy and monster seems mishandled. Even under the guardianship of his aunt, the Lady Murasaki, where her influence is a critical factor in Lector’s development, between her character and his, something fails to connect.It’s not all bad… there is gold to be found here, for the fan of Hannibal Lector to uncover, but I cannot help but feel that Harris could have done more with this early, crucial chapter in Lector’s life… the detail is adequate, the setting precisely crafted, but it is as though another, less involved storyteller had shared them with us.