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    The Silence of the Lambs: 25th Anniversary Edition
    The Silence of the Lambs: 25th Anniversary Edition
    The Silence of the Lambs: 25th Anniversary Edition
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    The Silence of the Lambs: 25th Anniversary Edition

    Written by Thomas Harris

    Narrated by Frank Muller

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    About this audiobook

    Listen to the silence...
    An instant classic novel of chilling psychological suspense...a critically-acclaimed audio production of unforgettable intensity...From the tormenting words of the homicidal maniac Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the flesh-rending depravity of an elusive killer to the sheer courage of a young F.B.I. novice, who risks her life to track him down and stop the bloodshed, experience the ultimate terror of an audio masterpiece...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateOct 1, 2013
    ISBN9781442368194
    The Silence of the Lambs: 25th Anniversary Edition
    Author

    Thomas Harris

    Thomas Harris is the author of best-selling novels including The Silence of the Lambs, Black Sunday, Red Dragon, Hannibal and Hannibal Rising.

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    • 5/5
      What vivid descriptions and fascinating plot line! I loved it.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic narrator. Enjoyed the exquisite details. Words words words words.
    • 5/5
      Excellent book and superb listen. Narrator captures Hannibal’s essence spot on.
    • 4/5
      Incredibly well-written and immersive, but highly disturbing. The narrator was good.
    • 5/5
      My favorite book of the genre. So crisp and creepy. There isn't a single superfluous paragraph.
    • 5/5
      I’ve seen the movie and read the book previously. The story was just as good even better listening.
    • 4/5
      This book grabbed my attention from the very first page, and I was almost unable to put it down. The immediately obvious complex, meticulously detailed descriptions and plot quality of this book are striking. It is the first of Thomas Harris' writing that I have read, and I was highly impressed.With its strong characters and plot development, suspense, and vivid style of writing, "The Silence of the Lambs" is a thrilling, eerie, and often disturbing work of literature.Harris has a remarkable talent for truly getting inside the heads of his lifelike characters. Clarice Starling is the main narrator, and the other most intricate, memorable character is, of course, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. I am greatly looking forward to reading the other books in the series that focus more on Hannibal, as he is the type of genius mastermind that only an actual real-life genius mastermind author could create.A strong, detailed, suspenseful, and chilling book. A classic of thrillers and suspense.Amazing!
    • 5/5
      Excellent much better than the movies. this is a must-read!
    • 5/5
      Best book AND best narrator. Frank Muller adds so much substance to the text. I was enthralled!
    • 3/5
      The movie spoils the book to a degree not to be very obvious. Missing details enough to want more. Second book might do just that?
    • 4/5
      I read this book because I'm a dumbass and even though I've seen the film a couple times, I never did get it straight in my head just how Clarice Starling ends up at Jame Grub's when she did, and how she suddenly knew where she was. I'd hoped the novel would make this clear, and it did.

      I also read the book because it was discussed a few months back on the First Tuesday Bookclub With Jennifer Byrne (Australia), and it was agreed that the book is very well written, and was a gamechanger for the genre. It's certainly well-written, though I'm not a fan of murder mysteries so I have to believe them on the importance of this book. The author employed clever use of present tense narrative among the past tense, and did a wonderful job of creating suspense with Clarice down in the basement, saving the day.

      In general I don't like reading about serial murders of young women -- since this book was published, I feel the balance has been tipped and there are now too many stories relying on such plots, but this one really is different. I enjoyed reading about Clarice Starling, learning slightly more about her than is possible to learn by watching the film. As noted on the Book Club show, the film and the book can stand side-by-side in the world, each existing in its own right. I wonder though, how I would have imagined the scenes had I not already seen the movie. Once you've seen Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, and Jody Foster as Clarice Starling, it's impossible to imagine anyone else.
    • 2/5
      Good book, from start to ending. Finished for just one day.
    • 5/5
      My favorite part of this book was the dialogue between two of the main characters. It was chilling!
    • 3/5
      Lots of people own this book, but apparently I have a weird edition of it. It's a good thriller...but I admit I like the movie more.
    • 4/5
      This story is all about the fat. The bite digs deeper every time.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic! I'd heard how good it was but I had never read it myself. Immediately one of my top 10 favorite novels.
    • 3/5
      The last book I've had to read for the crime fiction class, I think. I hope so. I've learnt something from this course: I much prefer Agatha Christie's "clue-puzzle" narratives to modern crime fiction -- I'm not a fan of the gore. Still, I'm probably going to write my essay partly on The Silence of the Lambs. Hannibal Lecter is a very interesting character, and I think it'd lose a lot of tension and interest without him. It'd become a lot more routine, a police procedural.

      This book is cleverly put together. Unfortunately, I ended up going to the lecture on it before I was able to finish it, so I didn't get the full benefit of it, I suppose. The recurring imagery -- the moths, the lambs -- is pretty interesting.

      Glad I read this, and I'll probably read the other two, despite my lecturer warning us not to (she wasn't impressed)...
    • 5/5
      A book you can't put down. Hannibal Lecter is the epitome of an evil presence. Harris is a mastermind in suspense thrillers.
    • 5/5
      Awesome Book, Awesome Narrative, and an awesome movie. There is something about this story that is perfect, well at least in my opinion.
    • 5/5
      Although the last interview between Clarice and Lector is moving in the movie, it's better still in this audiobook, which better highlights Lector's sadism, empathy, and weird playfulness.

      This is a great thriller, duh, but the unexpected star is the narrator, Frank Muller. Muller doesn't mix his narrative voice and characters' voices. The characters are very distinct. Every minute sounds emotionally apt. Weirdly flawless. It's going to be kind of a let-down listening to other narrators going forward.
    • 4/5
      Harris is a master story-teller and this is a fast-paced thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Not sure of the date I read it but it was quite a while ago.
    • 5/5
      Grew up loving the movie and the book is even better. Isn't that usually always the case?
    • 5/5
      It was a great listen and it brought back chilling memories from the movie.
    • 5/5
      This novel is truly fantastic and the narrator was beyond amazing. I was hooked to the entire time and I could not stop listening.
    • 2/5
      Disappointing, to say the least. I heard from someone that Harris wrote this novel after the screenplay for the film, and if this is true, it makes a lot of sense. The novel adds nothing to the movie in terms of connection to characters or insights into themes; this is one of a few rare instances I recommend that one skip the novel and just watch the movie.
    • 5/5
      Happy with the narration and the story was disturbing and beautiful at the same time. The narrator does a great job in building suspense and I was on the edge of my seat in some parts.
    • 4/5
      Not a genre that I usually read, but I saw that The Silence of the Lambs was on a top ten favorites by David Foster Wallace. It was a little hard to believe, but then again, such a complete writer would have a wide knowledge of literature that includes popular fiction as well as the canon. Anyway, it is no surprise that the excellent movie we all know comes from what is a very well done novel in the genre. The characters are interesting because their motivation is logically explained (although sometimes insane/bizarre and sometimes a tad prone to cliche). I don't agree with the negative reviews that read transphobia, homophobia, or misogyny. This was written in the 1980s: Making Clarice the protagonist was both brilliant and way ahead of many conversations. I think the writer tried pretty hard to explain that "Buffalo Bill" had psychological issues not unrelated to, or a result of, or having anything to do with, transgender identity or homosexuality.
    • 4/5
      This book is one of those exceptionally rare cases where I can honestly say that the movie and book are quite equal in enjoyment, and, considering that the film is widely considered to be one of the greatest ever done, that is truly saying something. And, yes, I am one of those people who saw the movie YEARS ago, loved it, and only now finally got around to reading the book. My bad, truly.Am I saying that the book is one of the best ever written? Well, no, but that's mostly because filmmaking and book writing are two very different things. And, on top of that, one will spend only a couple of hours watching the movie - while the book is required to keep one's interest for a great deal longer than that. Yet, suffice it to say, this is one of the very rare times where I read a book made into a movie and truly thought that it fully EARNED that distinction, as well as having the story and characters already in place to fully allow for such without massive overhauls being necessary.Indeed, if you've seen the movie, the book is familiar - extremely familiar. Whole scenes and conversations are taken almost whole cloth from the book to be put into the movie. The characters are virtually identical, and the events match up rather closely. Thomas Harris truly gave the screenwriters pretty much all that they needed here.So, what sets the book apart? When transforming a 400-page book into a two-hour-long movie, obviously a lot of cuts will be necessary. The characters have a bit more depth here, with background and details you don't get elsewhere, and there are events that are streamlined in the screenplay, etc.Plus, I'm going to be honest - while Anthony Hopkins provided an absolutely unforgettable performance on-screen, nothing could ever quite match up to the images that play in your head whenever Hannibal Lecter comes into the scene in the book. It is a truly chilling dynamic, even with a rather less disturbing ending than that offered by the on-screen depiction of the story.Is the book a MUST-see, if you've seen the movie? Honestly, probably not. The screen version is so well-done, you more than get the idea just by watching it. But, if you did enjoy the movie, or haven't seen it at all yet, this is definitely a defining crime thriller, which in many ways set the bar for so many that subsequently followed. Knowing this was first released in 1988, it is very easy to see the ways in which elements found here echo across so many later works even today. I couldn't put it down after I had started, even having seen the movie at least a hundred times, and am VERY glad I made the decision to give the book a try. Reading it was time very well spent.
    • 2/5
      Ive never read this book before (I just noticed its #2 in the series? oops) or seen any of the movies, my only exposure to Hannibal Lector are the 2 episodes of Hannibal I watched before I got too grossed out by the meat, but with how often this story comes up in popular culture Im surprised by the fact Ive never seen discussion on how SHOCKINGLY TRANSPHOBIC the source material is... The book tries to get around this by saying the person depicted isnt a "real" trans person but when you have your character acting in all the ways a trans person might and you also make the person a disgusting serial killer thats transphobic. Im not going to get into the discussion on how theres no right way to be trans because I would end up defending a fictional character who wears human skin as clothing. I found the book kinda homophobic for similar reasons. The queer characters seem to all be dead, or evil and dead, and even if the intention wasn't malignant the result is the same. Its gross.

      Also a lot of negative body talk and fat phobia? Im not really sure what to call it. The characters and narrator are fairly neutral towards the fact that these women (the serial killer victims) are fat but the way they are talked about and the way their weight just keeps getting brought up felt weird. Im gonna chalk it up to a male author and the time when the story was written. Maybe sizing in the 80's was different but I dont think a size 14 woman would actually be as big as the story seems to think she is.

      I wont give this book a one star rating because following my own system I would not physically fight this book. I had a lot of problems with it but the actual serial killer hunt part was interesting and I appreciated the fact that Clarice saw the victims as people and emphasized with them. It had moments of genuine suspense and subtle touches that I enjoyed. I also do appreciate its role in popular culture and media and I feel Ive expanded my mental reference library by reading it. I just wish it could have done it without the transphobia.
    • 3/5
      It is so hard to buy into the writing and hype of Harris. Lector does not frighten me in the least. Harris seems to delve on the fact that if I gross out my audience then they will be scared. That is a big no. Lector is no more frightening than a real serial killer. You have nothing to be frightened of unless you fit their profile and make yourself a target (in most cases) Yeah. That can be taken several ways. But regardless. His writing is simple, his tone is bland and the tenses are wasted on over the top drama.