Books by author: Thomas Harris

"Dreck" is the word that comes to mind. Hannibal is a novel that would have been better left unwritten. I have nothing good to say about it. The Clarice Starling character has none of the vibrance she exhibited in Silence of the Lambs, and though we get some small insight into the Lecter character, it's hardly worth it. Even the "gross-out" scenes are uninteresting — Pynchon describing rhinoplasty is much more gruesome and disturbing than Harris describing Lecter serving Starling fresh brains out the carefully prepared corpse of one of the bad guys. (Oops, did I ruin it for you?...sorry, bring the book back to the store and get a refund. You can use the cash to buy a copy of V..)