Hannibal Rising

Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages

English language

Published June 26, 2007 by Dell.

ISBN:
978-0-440-24286-4
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OCLC Number:
141187498

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Thomas Harris shows us Hannibal Lecter as he becomes the most frightening man in the world...

On the Easter Front are all the ingredients to make a monster. This brilliant orphaned child has demons lurking in the chambers of his memory, gouging him with fragments of his hideous past.

If he can confront the demons in his heart and brain, he can find them in the flesh, hunt them down and achieve a kind of peace.

A beautiful and exotic woman takes him to her heart, using every weapon and every wile at her command to save him from the dark, to stem the terrible forces unleashed by Hannibal Lecter's first taste of blood. --back cover

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reviewed Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris (Hannibal Lecter, #04)

Review of 'Hannibal Rising' on 'Goodreads'

I vaguely recall having watched the film version a few years back, but expected more nuance in the book given Harris's other work. The tough part about selling this is having some great plot building up to one of the most famous villains in modern literature, but not having the character overdone in comparison to his later (expectedly scarier) self. While not as engaging as I remember his other books, this was certainly interesting and entertaining. He does have some lovely turns of phrase that made me stop and reread several sections to appreciate not only his language, but the means of expression, and creativity.

reviewed Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris (Hannibal Lecter)

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I think Thomas Harris had two goals with this book. Firstly, to make some money from a popular anti-hero, and secondly to attempt to explain what turned a cultured sophisticate into a monster.

I'm sure he succeeded with the first goal.

From a technical viewpoint, this book seems a little rushed. There are several occasions where the narrative flips from past tense to present tense for no apparent reason. In a few passages this actually happens in the middle of a paragraph and once half way through a sentence. On a few of these occasions, it's been done as an attempt to show immediacy and increase the pace, but it's done so clumsily that it immediately removes you from the flow of the book. Personally, given the clumsy sentence structure at these points, I suspect it's bad editing.

The following is an example - make up your own mind:

"Hannibal …

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