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Hannibal Rising
by Thomas Harris
Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.
-Silence of the Lambs
The problem with this book isn't that it's badly written or that it's boring but the idea of the book itself, telling Hannibal Lecter's origin story. Much like Wolverine: Origin (and the film it inspired), Hannibal Rising tells a story that doesn't need to be told as the mystery of where this person came from and how they became what they are was part of the appeal. This novel makes the mistake of pushing Hannibal into a full on hero as opposed to the antagonist he was in the last three books. Hannibal spends most of the novel hunting the Nazis who ate his little sister in post WW II Europe. The story does a serviceable job of explaining how a kid who experienced such horrors at that young an age could become a monster but when that kid is specifically made to be Hannibal Lecter the whole thing becomes a bit blasé. Also Lecter has an attraction towards his Aunt/Step Mother in this book which she apparent reciprocates because Lecter kind of looks like her dead husband. Ewwww.
-Silence of the Lambs
The problem with this book isn't that it's badly written or that it's boring but the idea of the book itself, telling Hannibal Lecter's origin story. Much like Wolverine: Origin (and the film it inspired), Hannibal Rising tells a story that doesn't need to be told as the mystery of where this person came from and how they became what they are was part of the appeal. This novel makes the mistake of pushing Hannibal into a full on hero as opposed to the antagonist he was in the last three books. Hannibal spends most of the novel hunting the Nazis who ate his little sister in post WW II Europe. The story does a serviceable job of explaining how a kid who experienced such horrors at that young an age could become a monster but when that kid is specifically made to be Hannibal Lecter the whole thing becomes a bit blasé. Also Lecter has an attraction towards his Aunt/Step Mother in this book which she apparent reciprocates because Lecter kind of looks like her dead husband. Ewwww.