Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Short and to the Point Book Review
Finished Thomas Harris' new book Hannibal Rising and it was pretty disappointing. We see Dr. Lecter's childhood in Lithuania and France during WWII and after. Not a lot happens, at least not a lot of interesting things happen. Harris takes back the stupid thing he wrote in Hannibal (that young Hannibal knew his sister had been eaten because he saw her teeth in the latrine--who can recognize individual baby teeth, and who eats them?--just stupid). There is a stuka attack that goes wrong and Frenchmen being ineffably French. I like Hannibal best when he is working hard to help people or on a drawing or to prepare for anatomy class in Paris. I don't like him when he is killing people, even when they deserve it. It could easily be retitled Hannibal Yawning.
This was the result of 7 years writing?
This was the result of 7 years writing?
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 4:51 PM 
