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I took my time reading this book, not because I had to but because I enjoyed stringing out the suspense - I rationed myself to a chapter a day. The story is gripping and the writing evocative - it stimulated my imagination like a vindaloo for the brain. Some of the American cultural references were too obscure for me but they were few and in context. Hannibal Lecter is peripheral to the story, lurking in the shadows with intensely cold and enigmatic eyes (in my mind anyway). All in all, a fabulous read, thoroughly enjoyable. If you like the kind of horror/thrillers that don't splash blood and guts all over the place at every turn "for effect", this will suit you down to the ground. The thrill is more in the suspense than the shock.


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Red Dragon Hannibal Lecter Series Thomas Harris Books Reviews

I have read the Silence of the Lambs several times during my teens and I have fond memories of it. I have also seen most of the Hannibal films and recently started the TV show on Netflix. I really like Dr. Lecter as a character so I decided to give the book a chance. It was a really great decision and the writing hooked me on from the very beginning. It was fortunate that I started the book close to the weekend and I managed to dedicate a Saturday to read it in almost one sitting. It was a great experience. This is truly a classic piece of the genre and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone.
My original copy cover did not not have the Blake illustration on it. I remember going to a nearby city library and having the reference librarian help me find a book with a copy of the illustration. He asked why I was looking for it, and I merely said that it was referenced in a book that I was reading, and that I was curious about it.
He said he had asked because I was the second person that had come to the library, looking for the same information.
This was, of course, before home computers and the internet. It made that much of an impression.
Hannibal Lecter was a horrible, but secondary character.
I actually prefer this book to "Silence of the Lambs".
Read both of them, and make up your own mind.
I read this book years ago when it first came out in 1981 and was amazed by The Dragon's story. It was frightening, yes, but compelling also.

The in-depth characters of FBI profiler Will Graham and the monstrous Red Dragon have stuck in my memory for all these years. And the brief cameo of Dr. Hannibal Lector - I was so glad a few years later when he got his first real book THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.

Scary all the way through - and then when it's revealed how victims were chosen, I can remember thinking "no one is safe."

Author Thomas Harris has always been a pretty private person, doing hardly any interviews, and that helped with the mystique of his books.

When I started reading this book again, I was thrilled to see that Harris has a new book coming out soon in May 2019. I have preordered it. It's a standalone book like BLACK SUNDAY was and it's titled CARI MORA.

This book was great again this time around and now I'm off to read Harris's masterpiece THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. Fava beans, anyone?
Despite enormous personal costs, Will Graham uses his unique talents of visual memory, pure empathy, and projection to get into the head of serial killers. In order to capture Francis Dolarhyde, The Red Dragon, who has slaughtered two families, Graham elicits the help of Hannibal Lecter, a serial killer he helped put away. Lecter, however, has his own agenda.

Harris does an excellent job of showing Dolarhyde’s evolution from unwanted baby into adult serial killer.

Fascinated with serial killer books, I devoured RED DRAGON and SILENCE OF THE LAMBS a couple of decades ago, along with every Patricia Cornwell book I could get my hands on. Recently, on the recommendation of a good friend, I binged watched all three seasons of the television show Hannibal, which is based on Harris’s works. When I reread RED DRAGON, all of the characters morphed into the brilliant portrayals of the television cast of Hannibal. The ghosts of character incarnations from the previous films are forever banished from my brain. Thomas Harris created memorable characters, which Bryan Fuller made magic.

I’ve got all my fingers and toes crossed that Fuller continues to reimagine Thomas Harris’s books and has the opportunity to bring his vision to life on the big or small screen with his phenomenal cast. In the meantime, I plan to continue forward with Harris’s books. My rating of four stars is for the novel, RED DRAGON. Five shining stars for Bryan Fuller’s adaptation, which delves deep into all the character’s psyches’.
I took my time reading this book, not because I had to but because I enjoyed stringing out the suspense - I rationed myself to a chapter a day. The story is gripping and the writing evocative - it stimulated my imagination like a vindaloo for the brain. Some of the American cultural references were too obscure for me but they were few and in context. Hannibal Lecter is peripheral to the story, lurking in the shadows with intensely cold and enigmatic eyes (in my mind anyway). All in all, a fabulous read, thoroughly enjoyable. If you like the kind of horror/thrillers that don't splash blood and guts all over the place at every turn "for effect", this will suit you down to the ground. The thrill is more in the suspense than the shock.