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Silence Of The Lambs

A chilling crime classic, the inspiration behind the award-winning film (Hannibal Lector) – the perfect Halloween read!

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Silence Of The Lambs

By: Thomas Harris
Narrated by: Thomas Harris
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HANNIBAL LECTER WASN'T BORN A MONSTER.
HE WAS MADE ONE.

Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front of World War II, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He will not speak of what happened to him and his family. 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. There, Hannibal lives with his uncle and his uncle's beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki, who helps him to heal - and flourish.

But Hannibal's demons are not so easily defeated. Throughout his young life, they visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn - and in the fog of traumatic memory, he discovers that he has gifts far beyond what he imagined...

© Thomas Harris 1988 (P) Penguin Audio 2005

 Crime Thrillers Mystery Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Scary Ghost Haunted Fiction Crime
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Harris is sublime and conveys his desired styles for the voices of the characters, revealing so much about their identities.

best audio book ever! Harris is sublime

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Silence of the Lambs, This will grip you from the moment you press play.

Listen from start to end

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This is an abridged version of the story so while good it misses some of the character development and scene setting delivered in the book

Note this is not the full book

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I have loved reading this since I was 15, but hearing it being read and by the author almost makes you see the story in a whole new way. Love it

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I was three hours in before I realised the story was moving much quicker than expected- it wasn’t obvious that this was an abridged version! I loved hearing Harris’s narration and the voices he gave to his characters, as well as his specific intonation on his excellent descriptions… but then it was over so quickly because there were 9 chapters missing! I didn’t realise it was worth a whole credit- Audible should make it much more obvious that this isn’t the whole original version because I feel quite cheated now.

Disappointed… but only in Audible

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