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Silence Of The Lambs by Thomas Harris

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Surprisingly progressive for it's time, this book takes morbid and dark themes and wraps them up in a compelling cat and mouse game. The characters and writing are clever, and the progression of the story flows in a way that sucks you and and makes you want to keep reading just to know what happens next. Chapters vary greatly in length, adding punchy beats and never giving away more than necessarily until the next POV comes around. At first I was dissatisfied with the seemingly quick ending, but after sitting with it I'm entirely pleased. The point was not the ending, but the content and development made long before.

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Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Strong character development: Yes
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Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

For Close Encounters book club. 

There's a review on Goodreads that says this is the crime novel against which all others are judged.

Not enjoyable in any way, completely unpleasant, but also compelling and tense, so that I read pretty much all of it in three days.

Half a point lost because of the fat phobia. Doesn't age well.

One thing to say: NEVER get into a stranger's vehicle!

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Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

this happens to be a rare case where I slightly prefer the movie over the book, and it’s because the latter definitely aged worse over time. the amount of fatphobic language and cultural references of its time never really let up, it was almost distracting 🥴

however, everything else about this hits the perfect mix of serial killer chills and thrills. I love how much hannibal indulges writing letters to his friends, and never in my life have I read a more TERRIFYING chapter in a book than the chapter describing a basement.

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Hannibal Lecter: period blood eyes, teeth like a row of tic-tacs, built like a ballerina, and no taller than five-foot-two. 

showed its age more than red dragon, but i found clarice starling a bit more compelling than will graham. can definitely tell harris has grown to like certain characters more, and he writes thrillers like a journalist - extreme attention to detail, almost pedantic at times. except in the matters of women’s weight - “she was a large woman - 145 pounds!! so hefty!!!” listen i get it was the eighties and everyone was on stuff but come onnnnn thomas

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Although there are some strange ways of writing 'yeah' in dialogue

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