Hannibal [Bargain Price] (Hardcover)

~ Thomas Harris (Author)

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• Hardcover: 484 pages
• ISBN-10: 038529929X
• ASIN: B00009EF82
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #976,136 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I've read this book so many times, I think I need therapy!, December 22, 2006

By	Alberto Leon (Arlington, VA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is the product of a vibrant, morbid and twisted imagination. Thomas Harris did an excellent job in creating a likable monster and a model agent.

Hannibal Lecter, M.D. is a kind of man you want to meet: an intellectual, a musician, a cook who cooks human organs, and kills in the name of humanity, to rid us from undesirable, uncouth, boorish individuals (including killing a mediocre flautist from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra).

Agent Starling is the idealized straight arrow, the unwavering FBI agent who is ostracized from the bureau, because she's a female.

Every character in this book is disturbing. Corbel, the pederast who makes martinis using children's tears, Barney, the orderly who devours street pigeons, Margot, the incestuous sister, and finally, Mason Verger, the "faceless" monster who plans a harrowing revenge against Dr. Lecter, his erstwhile mentor


Those characters who are not so disturbing meet untimely, savage deaths. You know there are going to be a lot of killing, but you just don't know what kind of gruesome death they will suffer.

As usual, the book is far better than the movie. I can't wait to read "Hannibal Rising." I want to know what happens to agent Starling and Dr. Lecter.
I won't spoil the ening of this book, but I was amazed by the way it ended.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well above expectations, June 2, 2003

By	Grass (California) - See all my reviews

Hannibal is no "Silence of the Lambs" and it sure as hell is not a Hollywood movie. Sequel lovers will be disappointed but those who want to find progress and evolution in horror will find it here in Hannibal in all its bloody glory. Harris could have given us a remake of Red Dragon or Silence, but instead he goes the extra mile by shredding everything that the other two books stood for and simply slapping out a new raw type of horror story on a plate. There is nothing in this book which stops you turning the pages and anybody with some insight can see that every word, every sentence, every chapter has been gone over with a fine tooth and comb to give it the 'horror' masterpiece that Harris obviously had in mind. In fact that is what this book is - sheer urban horror.

Hannibal is a quicker read than anything you can expect. If you want to know more about why Hannibal does what he does then you will find it here within these pages. There is less detective work this time round but then again look at the book's title and you will understand. This isn't about the FBI or Starling. This isn't about Serial Killers and their Nemisis - this is about Hannibal.

The story is vulgar, obscene, violent and bloody. It takes us through the halls of blood-soaked dreams and into Hannibal's world where he walks freely painting his canvas a dark red while convincing onlookers that his interpretations of renaissance paintings are indeed the revelations of their ancestors deranged minds.... and they clap! This books plays with you and sticks with you.

To cut a long story short this is a HORROR NOVEL and a bloody good one at that. It matches the Exorcist in this respect and does its best to distance itself from prejudged ideologies about what a follow-up to silence of the lambs should be. I give a nod to Harris! This is Horror evolution at its finest if you ask this reviewer.... and that is the best way to lap it up.

Go read Agatha Christy or James Patterson if you really want another detective yarn.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of the Lecter series, March 18, 2008

By	Robert Markham "R. Markham" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

Thomas Harris has produced his masterpiece in HANNIBAL. Moving beyond the standard crime thrillers of RED DRAGON and SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, Harris composes an elegant, twisted narrative resembling a contemporary take on the surreal writings of Edgar Allan Poe, and the result is a deliciously dark thriller.

But despite its distinction from its predecessor, HANNIBAL also compliments SILENCE quite well. While it goes on to tread new territory, the characters continue on. Harris has never had a better grasp on Lecter or Starling than he does in HANNIBAL, and those arguing to the contrary missed much of what Harris was doing in SILENCE.