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Hannibal

(Hannibal Lecter)

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HANNIBAL LECTER HAS BEEN ON THE RUN FOR SEVEN YEARS.

And seven years after he helped FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling bring down Buffalo Bill, her career is collapsing after a disastrous drug bust.

Meanwhile, seven years after violently escaping from custody, Hannibal Lecter is hunted by Mason Verger, a psychopathic former client obsessed with feeding him to wild boars.

With the one-time partners at a low ebb, Hannibal is the one to reach out to Clarice, who has been plagued by dreams of his rasping voice.

It has been seven years since they both came to realise they shared more than they expected.

Seven years since their last meeting.

Seven years to lay plans for the next one...
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'Quite simply a compelling and brilliant thriller' Mirror

'Addictive on every level' Express

'Better than Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs' Stephen King


© Thomas Harris 1999 (P) Penguin Audio 2009

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Love Thomas Harris. And this is worthy of his few novels, but have to say this audiobook is spoiled somewhat by one of the characters performances.. Anybody who knows the story will know the character in question (Mason Verger) where the performance demands a verbal affliction.. He also happens to be a major character. The performance is so affected it's hard to understand! It's too much! Otherwise, a. Good listen albeit with a bizarre ending.

Needs subtitles!

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I love the character. Red Dragon is a perfect example of the genre. Silence of the Lambs has maybe a slightly less interesting protagonist. Hannibal borders of self indulgent, particularly the scenes in Florence. As Harris says about the Doctor, "he won't deny himself". It's almost as if Harris is talking about himself instead. It does peak when all the major players are in orbit, but that ending...I can't decide if it horrified me because it was meant to or because it's awful. Left a bad taste in the mouth at any rate. The narrator commits to Mason but given the medium it's actually hard at times to follow, and his Barney is, well, odd. And to be honest this reading of Hannibal is a little too Anthony Hopkins for my liking.

If you can get past Florence, it picks up but be prepared for the finale. The TV show does it far better.

Hmmmm

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Very good story which rounds off the tale of Lecter and Starling in a far more satisfactory way than the film which was based on this novel. The only thing stopping this being a 5 star review was the narration. It is clear that the narrator is very skilled at using varing accents to bring the characters to life, however on occasion he reads very fast which can make the dialogue slightly hard to follow. As well as this, he slightly over does one of the characters speech impedements (I won't say too much incase I spoil the narritive), to the point where his dialogue is near incomprehencable. Other than that, a fantastic audio book!

Nearly a 5* review, but......

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Probably the most well written of the 3 books, I can see why people took issue with the ending. Not my favourite ending but it doesn’t impact how compelling this story is

Great story not sure about the ending

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Masons voice is completely unintelligible. What on earth was the narrator and producer thinking letting this go through ?

Masons voice is ridiculous

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