Question For Those Who Read The Books

[Trainer Monkey]

Ive never read the Hannibal Lecter series, just watched the films, the films seem to suggest that it was his own patients that eventually drove him mad, is this explored further in the books

[BoxingGorilla]

I've never read any of the book. I just want to add that that last movie (Hannibal Rising) was crap. Poor choice for young Hannibal.

[Youngblood]

I've never read any of the book. I just want to add that that last movie (Hannibal Rising) was crap. Poor choice for young Hannibal.

Yes...didn't like the movie at all, and as well felt it was a poor portrayal of a young Hannibal. The material was there I believe...but those are some big shoes to fill in Anthony Hopkins. It fell well short of doing it for me.

[Gandalf]

Ive only read Hannibal, seen each of the films with Hopkins. I like them all.

Not seen the latest one, dont particularly want to going from what Ive heard.

[Drago]

read silence of the lambs & red dragon, loved both of the books & films but prefered manhunter to red dragon as a movie

[Wayne]

I only read Hannibal. But in that one he lays some groundwork for Lecter's backstory. It was far more compelling than what they did in the Hannibal Rising movie. And Hannibal has been nuts from the start. Essentially, his sister was eaten. There was a very specific reason Lecter was obsessed with Clarice and it makes sense in an insane manner. Clarice made him think of his sister. Years before meeting her Lecter had read something by some genius type about how we know time is moving forward. I'm paraphrasing heavily because it's been many years since I read the book, but the writer wrote something about a glass falling and breaking and remaining broken is how we know time is moving forward. Lecter had a theory that time could move backward and he would regularly push glasses off tables and stare at the shattered glass to see if it would reform and jump back up on the table. The only circumstance in which he would kill Clarice is if that glass jumped back on the table. Because to him that would mean he could slide his sister's mind/spirit into Clarice's body. I don't have any clue how a sane person comes up with that concept, but maybe Thomas Harris isn't sane.

[Mikkel_K]

Ive only read Hannibal, seen each of the films with Hopkins. I like them all.

Not seen the latest one, dont particularly want to going from what Ive heard.

I've read a few of them, but didnt like Hannibal at all. The Silence of the Lambs - as a book - is far superior, and so is Red Dragon btw.

You should give them a shot - good stuff, indeed.