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Cari Mora by Thomas Harris

July 1, 2019 by Leedock Leave a Comment

The psychological profiling and tracking of serial killers in books, television and film is extremely interesting to me. The first book that I encountered along those lines was “Silence of the Lambs” and I devoured all of the prequels and sequels to that book as they came out. FBI agents’ freaky ability to get into a serial killer’s head and predict what, where, when and how is FASCINATING. Walking that very thin line between having a healthy mind and one that can process the mind […]

How Hannibal Became a Cannibal

September 11, 2014 by Mrs Smith Reads Leave a Comment

Having never read Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris, when it was published in 2007, I thought I would go back and finish up the series, mostly to familiarize myself with the entire Hannibal cannon and potentially to help me have more information at hand as the television series continues in 2015. The reviews for the book when it came out, were not kind, and many thought Harris had crossed a line in the sand by establishing his imagined reasons for Hannibal Lecter’s childhood trauma and resulting descent […]

This Book Was Delicious: Hannibal

May 29, 2014 by Mrs Smith Reads Leave a Comment

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 […]

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on Can’t wait to see how this connects to The Mercy of the Gods
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My book club is waiting for the Libby rush to die down to read this together--I keep dabbling at reviews...

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