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Title: Brilliant Novel Transcends Its Genre
Review: Thomas Harris' first 'Lecter' novel is far and away the best. HANNIBAL was a well-intentioned yet ridiculous exercise, while SILENCE OF THE LAMBS was by far the worst, telling an uninvolving, unconvincing tale with a pallid, uninteresting character like Clarice Starling leading the way. With RED DRAGON, a bizzarely complex, textured, nuanced piece of psychological tension, Thomas Harris created a masterpiece that few novels (David Wiltse's A PRAYER FOR THE DYING being one of the few exceptions) can even come close to matching its brilliance. And Will Graham and Francis Dolarhyde are simply wonderful creations, each possessing infinite layers of complex behaviorlism that make them fascinating narrators.(It was a shame that we lost Graham to the likes of Clarice Starling, who has no rough edges for the reader to key off of; she simply comes off as a depressed young woman who can't get over her rough childhood. Deep.)
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