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Hannibal Rising

(Hannibal Lecter)

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Hannibal Rising

By: Thomas Harris
Narrated by: Thomas Harris
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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.

©2006 Thomas Harris; (P)2006 Random House Genre Fiction Ghosts Horror Medical Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Fiction Haunted

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Critic reviews

Praise for Hannibal:
Quite simply a compelling and brilliant thriller.
The thrills, horror, sly erudition and sheer exquisite writing make this so much more than another serial killer novel... [It] reaches almost sublime levels of gothic grandeur at its conclusion. If only all bestsellers were so rewarding.
A masterpiece... Chillingly brilliant
Quite simply this is the best-written thriller to dominate the market in years... A literary evocation of the diabolical to compare with Goethe and Gogol. Honestly.
A gut-churning, nail-biting, skin-crawling, often lyrical triumph - addictive on every level
All stars
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How can a cannibalistic sociopath become such a mesmeric character? The answer is quite simple.

Thomas Harris is a master storyteller.

If you applauded Hannibal's tracking down of his one-time tormentor, Dr Chiltern then this episode of his life is for you.

You will cheer him on page after page.

The plot of this novel was alluded to in 'Hannibal', but that does not detract from this latest episode. Indeed, Harris has a consumate skill in placing questions in each of the Lecter stories which always leave you wanting more. Thankfully he has left room for at least another two 'Hannibals'. The only pity is that he makes us wait so long for each instalment.

This is visceral entertainment of the highest quality and superbly read by the author himself.

Masterpiece !!!!!!!!!

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I can't praise this novel highly enough. Several times I jumped back a few chapters just to hear them again! It is very well written, the plot goes forward at a good rate and the characterisation is excellent. I see inspiration here both from Memoirs of a Geisha (with the language, not just the fact that there is a Japanese lady) and Perfume by Patrick Suskind. I especially like that Lecter and Grenoille both have a 'memory palace' and both novels are quite darkly comic as well as being unspeakably sad.

At first I was disappointed with the narration. It should be much longer than 7 hours because Mr Harris narrates too quickly. However after a few chapters it stopped bothering me and I enjoyed his natural accent as well as the other accents he attempted.

What I like most about this is that it doesn't reduce a mysterious, almost superhuman 'bad guy' to a normal guy with a bad past. It does explain why he first kills - and it's a motivation that we can probably all sympathise with - but it does not explain why he carries on killing after the novel's events. It is at the end of Hannibal Rising that he becomes a monster, and once a monster he is no longer subject to normal human desires and motivations.

Well worth a listen.

Loved every minute

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Having Thomas Harris read his own book makes the book come alive. Felt that I was more in the story.

Outstanding performance and book one of the best

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Nothing like the film but much more interesting and enjoyable. The scenes are so well set they become very much part of the story and the characters become alive in them. I really look forward to the rest of the series having now a much greater understanding of Hanningfield.

Not like the film.

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As to the history of Hannibal x it is already in a movie based however I wanted to read it to see if it missed things out x I discovered a few things that have to be read for the effect x

An interesting insight

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