Hannibal Lecter is a literary villain who stands above so many, but this book is 100% Clarice Starling’s. While I think that I PROBABLY like the movie better, that is only because the movie is so perfect at bringing all of these three dimensional and amazing characters to life. And picking it up again felt like I was visiting an old friend.īut not one that I’m planning on having for dinner or anything… ( source) Because of this, I decided that it was time to revisit the story in book form, and that I would include it in this year’s Horrorpalooza.

Given that I watch it ever Halloween Season and my friends and I did a Netflix Party of it on one of our weekly Terror Tuesdays, I can see the argument for it being within the horror genre (though I myself flip flop between yes and no). There has been a debate lately between film fans on Twitter as to whether “The Silence of the Lambs” is horror or not. I saw the film shortly thereafter, and both are now very high on my lists in terms of favorite books and films. I read it very quickly, completely immersed in the story. My mom and I were at a local drug store and they had the mass market paperback for sale, and she was kind enough to purchase it for me because she never censored what I wanted to read (even if she probably sighed to herself about her daughter’s morbid curiosities). Review: I first read “The Silence of the Lambs” when I was a freshman in high school. His intimate understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself form the core of The Silence of the Lambs-an ingenious, masterfully written book and an unforgettable classic of suspense fiction. Lecter is a former psychiatrist with a grisly history, unusual tastes, and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind. Hannibal Lecter-Hannibal the Cannibal-who is kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.ĭr.

Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the FBI Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, chief of the Bureau’s Behavioral Science section. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Martin’s Press, July 1988īook Description: A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname-Buffalo Bill-is stalking women. Book: “The Silence of the Lambs” by Thomas Harris

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