Thomas Harris readers?

[fljoe0]

Anyone remember "Black Sunday?" That kind of story is old hat now but it was quite imaginative in 1975. I remember that book was a big deal when I was in school and there was a movie too.

[Chris_Ferox]

I rather enjoyed Hannibal Rising a lot more than the movie version thereof. I felt like it was Harris going full on pulp fiction and practically casting Lecter as a kind of old fashioned Dracula from Frankentsein's castle type of monster.

[wick]

Can anybody let me know, if you have to read the books in order or if you can start any Hannibal book.

[cat in a bag]

Hi wick! If I am remembering right, Hannibal Lecter is a minor character in Red Dragon. It's been a while, but it seems I remember being disappointed he wasn't in the book much. I would definitely read Silence of the Lambs before Hannibal though.

[wick]

Thanks cat in a bag. I only have Hannibal, but I would love to pick up both Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon.

[blunthead]

Imho, when one or more books in a series is known to be less than the others then the series is faulty. One is thankfully reduced to choosing the best ones to read first. I think this of the Lecter series.

So, I suggest reading them in this order...

1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. Hannibal
3. Red Dragon
4. Hannibal Rising

I agree that Black Sunday is a very worthy read.

[Lina]

Now I can tell that I've read Hannibal, Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs. The books are great. But I have no intention of reading Hannibal Rising, because I tried to watch the movie once and I didn't like it. Unfortunately, it is not my type of thing.
But I am really glad that you tell that Black Sunday is worth reading, I have purchased the book, and I hope I get to read it in the nearest future.

[Connor Bible]

Thomas Harris is one of the finest thriller writers I've ever seen. I read Red Dragon; a top-notch psycho-thriller in all departments. I heard somewhere that Harris was more or less forced to write Hannibal Rising; apparently, if he didn't write how the good doctor came to be, someone else would do it. I guess the Silence of the Lambs film was the best and worst thing to happen to Harris's career.

[Chris_Ferox]

I love Hannibal, both the movie and the book, I think they are both the best of the series, but I think the book is better even than the movie. I'm pretty sure Steve King agrees if you are to believe the blurb he gave the book.

Hannibal Rising is a great book and lousy movie. IMO this is Harris being a bit jokey and taking the character into Frankenstein/Dracula type Universal Monster territory, which I am all for.

Harris also wrote a book about a terrorist blowing up the Super Bowl which was not bad