Prompted by the impending second season finale of “Hannibal” I decided to go back and re-read Hannibal by Thomas Harris. Much of this season had been culled from this particular book, so I thought it would be interesting to see how and where the story diverged from the original, since showrunner Bryan Singer does not have the rights (yet?) to the Clarice Starling role and she is a major character in the novel. I actually liked Hannibal better the second time around. Singer was brilliant to develop the TV series […]
Hello, Clarice
Last year I decided to read the Hannibal novels after I watched the first season of NBC’s Hannibal. For those of you who have not seen Hannibal, please watch it. Don’t let them cancel it on me! Claire Danes’s husband plays Will Graham, and his crazy face rivals her cry face! And man, these Hannibal Lecter books are FUN. I highly doubt I need to summarize the plot, but in case you have not been alive for the past twenty-five years, Hannibal Lecter is a convicted serial […]