Tyler Durden
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Tue Jul-18-06 02:30 PM
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| Poll question: The Hannibal Lecter Appreciation Poll |
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Thomas Harris is one of the most underappreciated authors in the history of the English language. His phrases are turned with such precision and his imagery is so vivid...
I have just finished re-reading the three Hannibal books (Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal). I have also just finished quietly cursing a favorite director of mine (Ridley Scott) for his BUTCHERY of Hannibal. If you have read the book, you know of what I speak, and if you haven't read the book, shame on you...go read it.
On to the poll...
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| Tyler Durden
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Tue Jul-18-06 02:37 PM
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| 1. GAWD I loved that book. |
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I have re-read it 3 times.
Helps that I read about 2000 words a minute.
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Tue Jul-18-06 02:42 PM
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~I have read Hannibal, and find it hard to forgive Ridley Scott.~
The book was as good as the first one. I thought the first movie was better than the book and the last was just bad in every way the first one was good.
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Tue Jul-18-06 03:01 PM
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| 7. HOW could he butcher that ENDING? |
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Sort of like taking a story about Jesus and changing the Good Friday part to the Marines showing up in a Blackhawk chopper and taking him off the cross to the cheers of the crowd.
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Tue Jul-18-06 02:44 PM
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| 3. I've never seen the movies or read the books, |
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in what order should I read them?
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Tue Jul-18-06 02:56 PM
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Silence next, then Hannibal.
Harris is a writer on par with the best.
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Tue Jul-18-06 03:02 PM
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| 8. AND DON'T SEE HANNIBAL BEFORE READING IT!! |
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Not like the movie is trash, it's good, it's just a lot different from the book.
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Tue Jul-18-06 02:47 PM
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I loved both Red Dragon and SotL as novels (in fact, read them before I saw the movies) and thought that the novel of Hannibal was absolute dreck.
It seemed to me that the studios paid Harris to write a novel based off their screenplay as quickly and with as little effort, talent and ingenuity as possible.
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Tue Jul-18-06 02:57 PM
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| 6. We must agree to disagree... |
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I thought Hannibal was AMAZING, but I won't try to convert you. Taste in books is very personal.
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Tue Jul-18-06 03:03 PM
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As I said, I typically really enjoy Harris's work so I'm not sure exactly what it was about that one...
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