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dark
medium-paced
4.0
"What is left in you to love?" she said.
I'm not saying I agree with the decisions Hannibal Lecter made, but I'm saying I get it.
Hannibal Rising is an exploration of his rough upbringing in the midst of German invasion and war and all the losses he endured that eventually 'broke' him. There is a conversation in the book revolving Hannibal that happens between a police Inspector and his assistant and it goes like :
What do you think he is?
The little boy Hannibal died in 1945 out there in the snow trying to save his sister. His heart died with Mischa. What is he now? There's not a word for it yet. For lack of a better word, we'll call him a monster.
.. which goes to show that big bad terrifying Hannibal Lecter is a result of all his circumstances and childhood traumas.
This book also introduces insightful tidbits into Hannibal's character and mannerisms e.g we learn about how he came up with the Memory palace, what drove him to commit his first murder, how he ended up retrieving hidden memories, his inner demons or even how he became so skilled in surgery and human anatomy.
I really enjoyed reading this thrilling and gruesome book.
I'm not saying I agree with the decisions Hannibal Lecter made, but I'm saying I get it.
Hannibal Rising is an exploration of his rough upbringing in the midst of German invasion and war and all the losses he endured that eventually 'broke' him. There is a conversation in the book revolving Hannibal that happens between a police Inspector and his assistant and it goes like :
What do you think he is?
The little boy Hannibal died in 1945 out there in the snow trying to save his sister. His heart died with Mischa. What is he now? There's not a word for it yet. For lack of a better word, we'll call him a monster.
.. which goes to show that big bad terrifying Hannibal Lecter is a result of all his circumstances and childhood traumas.
This book also introduces insightful tidbits into Hannibal's character and mannerisms e.g we learn about how he came up with the Memory palace, what drove him to commit his first murder, how he ended up retrieving hidden memories, his inner demons or even how he became so skilled in surgery and human anatomy.
I really enjoyed reading this thrilling and gruesome book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Blood, Cannibalism, War, Animal cruelty, Child death, and Gore
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