Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

12 reviews

greenan26's review against another edition

challenging dark lighthearted tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Murder, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Mental illness, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, Gun violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Stalking, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Drug use

juleseliasw's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Pretty outdated at times, but beautifully written descriptive details. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Gore, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Mental illness

Moderate: Gun violence, Body horror, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Sexual violence, and Animal death

alexasolis98's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

This book was suspenseful and disturbing at times. The writing was not my favorite, it was almost choppy at times. I was sometimes a bit lost as to what was going on. However, there were times when the scenes were vivid. Will Graham was an interesting character, along with his relationship with Jack Crawford. I wish we could have seen more Hannibal Lecter. He is a very intriguing character that I look forward to reading more of. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Ableism, Murder, Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

kather_doc's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Sexual content, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

hookerkitty's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense

4.0

(Finally adding the review way later, so I’m going off some old notes and what I vaguely remember lol)

There were some parts I found a tad boring, but that was prob more my mental space than the book itself. It was definitely fun reading the parts that got weaved into The Silence of the Lambs movie, even if it’s from a different book in the series. Very excited to read the next one.

Oh one of my biggest disappointments (or the biggest) was when Graham said “I could care less.” Guy is supposed to be hella intelligent and pulls that crap.

Good god I both can and cannot believe how many people are whining in the reviews saying they watched the Hannibal series and are upset he’s not in this book much. I can’t believe they had enough reading comprehension to make it through the entire book when they couldn’t make it through/comprehend the title (or synopsis) of the book. And totally missed that there is a book literally titled “Hannibal,” but they haven’t gotten there yet 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Gore, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Stalking, Medical content, and Animal death

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexual content, Self harm, Racial slurs, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

gilmargirl's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Torture, Body horror, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Body shaming, Child abuse, Bullying, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

littleredwinter's review against another edition

Very disappointed. I thought I’d like the book because I liked the movie version of The Silence of the Lambs, but this book had inconsistent pacing, extraneous details galore, and very little characterization of its most interesting characters. The dated writing style that included way too much detail about unnecessary sexual stuff and actual slurs made my skin crawl more than the gore, which I expected more of than I actually got. The backstory felt unnecessary to understand the killer. And I felt I didn’t get Will Graham as a character at all. The only redeeming quality was Hannibal Lecter himself. He had the best characterization of anyone but was barely in the book. DNF at 86%. I couldn’t get all the way through it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Gun violence, Gore, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Sexism, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Animal death, and Medical trauma

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Cannibalism

volo's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I like this book because im obsessed with the Hannibal series. It very much feels like it was written back in 1988. Lots of racism and homophobia and very detailed childhood abuse. I dont like this Will Graham as much as I liked Edward Nortons Will Graham in the film adaptation or the NBC series but it was alright. Definitely a cult classic that probably wouldn't get the same following if published today.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Torture, Child abuse, Gore, Rape, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Ableism, Cursing, Sexual violence, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Medical content, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Cannibalism, Abandonment, Antisemitism, and Misogyny

Many mentions of graphic childhood abuse. Graphic depictions of gore and torture. A fair amount of racism and homophobia.

carrionkid's review against another edition

4.0

I enjoyed this a lot, it came together really well but I felt the conclusion was a little rushed. Probably gonna check out the other books in the series while I'm at it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit

kateausten's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, and Cursing