Title: Brutal disappointment
Review: Hannibal Lecter was a very interesting supporting character in "Red Dragon" and "The Silence of the Lambs." Unfortunately, Harris fell in love with the character, and distorted Lecter badly in this sequel. Previously, Lecter was an unmitigated villain, a monster who, though witty, well-educated and having good taste, was a murderous cannibal who killed people because it amused him to do so.Now he kills only people who deserve to die. Hannibal the Cannibal has been forcibly transmogrified into Hannibal the Hero, and the author into Harris the Hack. The ending of "Hannibal" is absolutely horrendous, a brutal attack on the sensibilities of the reader and on the character of Clarice. It's snide, arrogant and heartless; in my experience as a reader, this is the most sadistic attack on the readers of the book I have ever encountered, and by very far, the worst ending.
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