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3.29 AVERAGE
3.29 AVERAGE
Ίσως το καλύτερο από όλα της σειράς. Ο λόγος? Βλέπεις και καταλαβαίνεις την ιστορία του Λέκτερ, πως ένα παιδάκι έγινε ένας ψυχρός και κανίβαλος δολοφόνος. Υπέροχη η σχέση νεαρού Λέκτερ και θείας! Το μεγάλο μυστικό στο τέλος απλά σε καθηλώνει! Η ψυχογράφηση του χαρακτήρα είναι απλά απίστευτη!
Oh Thomas Harris, you had such a great thing going here with this franchise. I loved Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. I think Hannibal Lecter is one of the most fascinating and intriguing fictional characters out there. So, this book is a huge disappointment. I didn't necessarily need a Hannibal Lecter origin story but even if I did did it have to be such a boring and cliche ridden one?
Seriously, does anything happen to young Hannibal that hasn't already happened to some other fictional characters. The story is also really boring. Nothing of actual excitement happens here. And nothing that happens really helps to explain the emergence of Hannibal the cannibal. It's just a muddled mess of a book that ruins the legacy of a great series and character. Harris should have quit while he was ahead. He took a great, menacing character and gave him a cliched boring origin story. So disappointing. A waste of my time and yours. I expected better from Harris. I really did.
Seriously, does anything happen to young Hannibal that hasn't already happened to some other fictional characters. The story is also really boring. Nothing of actual excitement happens here. And nothing that happens really helps to explain the emergence of Hannibal the cannibal. It's just a muddled mess of a book that ruins the legacy of a great series and character. Harris should have quit while he was ahead. He took a great, menacing character and gave him a cliched boring origin story. So disappointing. A waste of my time and yours. I expected better from Harris. I really did.
Everyone said that this book was going to be disappointing and boring... they were more than right. Plot is fragile, characters are poorly developed and, generally, the story has no believability and lost all the mystery and the suspence that we find in the previous books.
Moreover, Thomas Harris, again, talks about things he doesn't know. It was barely acceptable in Hannibal, which was full of stereotypes about Tuscany and Italians, while this time the entire late WWII and post-war eras in Europe are described like a bad setting for a stupid Hollywood movie.
I think I would rather stick with the trilogy and forget about this book, so Hannibal Lecter, the educated and cool cannibal, will remain an extremely charming villain.
Moreover, Thomas Harris, again, talks about things he doesn't know. It was barely acceptable in Hannibal, which was full of stereotypes about Tuscany and Italians, while this time the entire late WWII and post-war eras in Europe are described like a bad setting for a stupid Hollywood movie.
I think I would rather stick with the trilogy and forget about this book, so Hannibal Lecter, the educated and cool cannibal, will remain an extremely charming villain.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
“When I said that Mercy stood
Within the borders of the wood,
I meant the lenient beast with claws
And bloody swift-dispatching jaws.”
― Lawrence Spingarn
I will start this out with saying that this is the first Hannibal book I have read in the series. I only learned that it really should be read last after you actually get to meet Hannibal Lecter after getting through more than half of the novel. So take this as you will.
The scariest thing to most people is the unknown.
Which is why serial killers are so terrifying since most times it is only theories of what happened in their life to make them become what they are.
When I learned about Rising being about Hannibal's origin story... I was wary. I didn't want this book to ruin the rest in the series for me.
This story is very forgettable.
It is labeled "Horror" and "Thriller", yet I was never scared once or even on the edge of my seat. I was not bored reading it but it was more so mindlessly flipping through the pages until I reach the last one. Even as I am writing this, just finished reading, I can't remember any part that really stuck out to me that I could say I liked. The character felt like Harris was trying to make them complex and multi-dimensional... But they ended up flat and bland. Not caring for any of them or how they were really connected to Hannibal.
Perhaps my opinion of this will change after I finish the rest of the books but for now I wish I skipped this all together.
However I have heard great things for the rest of the books in this series so I have hopes they are much better than this and actually capture me in their story.
Buddy Read With Elly
Within the borders of the wood,
I meant the lenient beast with claws
And bloody swift-dispatching jaws.”
― Lawrence Spingarn
I will start this out with saying that this is the first Hannibal book I have read in the series. I only learned that it really should be read last after you actually get to meet Hannibal Lecter after getting through more than half of the novel. So take this as you will.
The scariest thing to most people is the unknown.
Which is why serial killers are so terrifying since most times it is only theories of what happened in their life to make them become what they are.
When I learned about Rising being about Hannibal's origin story... I was wary. I didn't want this book to ruin the rest in the series for me.
This story is very forgettable.
It is labeled "Horror" and "Thriller", yet I was never scared once or even on the edge of my seat. I was not bored reading it but it was more so mindlessly flipping through the pages until I reach the last one. Even as I am writing this, just finished reading, I can't remember any part that really stuck out to me that I could say I liked. The character felt like Harris was trying to make them complex and multi-dimensional... But they ended up flat and bland. Not caring for any of them or how they were really connected to Hannibal.
Perhaps my opinion of this will change after I finish the rest of the books but for now I wish I skipped this all together.
However I have heard great things for the rest of the books in this series so I have hopes they are much better than this and actually capture me in their story.
Buddy Read With Elly
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
30.12.2006
Harris, Thomas: Hannibal Rising (2006)
9½
- New Hannibal novel! And now of course in English since the translation hasn't arrived yet. Anyway, captivating story about Hannibals childhood and how he grew up with his demons. He seemed at the same time very human and yet monstrous. Well, as said, the "real" Hannibal died already in 1945. I liked this, it got my attention for over 24 hours but I didn't die of excitement. So. Good but the Red Dragon seemed better. And Hannibal. Good, still. Oh well.
Harris, Thomas: Hannibal Rising (2006)
9½
- New Hannibal novel! And now of course in English since the translation hasn't arrived yet. Anyway, captivating story about Hannibals childhood and how he grew up with his demons. He seemed at the same time very human and yet monstrous. Well, as said, the "real" Hannibal died already in 1945. I liked this, it got my attention for over 24 hours but I didn't die of excitement. So. Good but the Red Dragon seemed better. And Hannibal. Good, still. Oh well.
For a thriller, and a well-known story at that, it didn't thrill me as expected.
A bit of a letdown, even writing-wise. It reads well but it doesn't grip you to the story or characters.
A bit of a letdown, even writing-wise. It reads well but it doesn't grip you to the story or characters.
¡Una historia increíble!
Que te atrapa... te llena de curiosidad... de adrenalina.
Que te atrapa... te llena de curiosidad... de adrenalina.