The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris

When adapting a book to film the quality of the source material is not always essential and neither is closeness. The recent 'I am Legend' is the third film adaptation of the book, not including unofficial adaptations such as '28 Days Later', and each has differed from the other. Many times the film only pays minimal notice of the book using the central premise and little else. However, there are a couple of reasons why filmmakers may seek to stay close to the source. Firstly, the book may be a popular 'classic' and cinema goers just want to see a direct copy of the book in picture form e.g. 'The Da Vinci Code', unfortunately these films are often too wordy (Da ...  Read the complete review

No one could forget the nerve wracking film adaptation of this book but how does the book measure up? Well I think the film was more tense but the book is deeper. In brief the plot is as follows - Someone nicknamed Buffalo Bill is abducting young women, holding them captive for a few days and then dumping their partly skinned bodies. The FBI is at their wits end and need some help. A young female recruit called Clarice Starling is given the unenviable task of going to see Hannibal the cannibal i.e. Doctor Hannibal Lecter. Why was this important task given to a young recruit? Starling is top of her class and has a double major in psychology and ...  Read the complete review

A madman is stalking the suburbs of America. He is a confused loner. Unable to get the sex change operation he so desired, he decides to take drastic action. He is making himself a girl suit...out of real girls! Thomas Harris has proved himself to be no one hit wonder, with this superb follow up to Red Dragon. A master of terror, his pen unleashes genious with each stroke. In The Silence of The Lambs, Harris offers up a serving of characters so believable that you feel at times that you know them personally. His writing style is faultless. Powerful descriptions of scenery and scenarios, he takes the reader on a roller-coaster thrill ride, only letting you off of ...  Read the complete review

Thomas Harris is proving to be an excellent writer, silence of the lambs was the first book by Thomas Harris that I read. Silence of the lambs tells the story of a young fbi agent who is assigned the case of catching a serial killer. The killer is abducting plumpish women, keeping them in a pit for a while, then killing them and skinning them, for the purpose of making himself into a woman by sewing skin from different victims together, urgh!. Starling the agent goes to visit Hannibal the cannibal for a profile of the killer, hannibal sees the young agent as a way for him to escape, so he does a deal and gives the profile. The events are dramatic and the ...  Read the complete review

This is a truly great read for anyone interested in serial killers fact or fiction and also it deals alot with forensic science which too is very interesting, The story revolves around Clarice Starling a trainee FBI agrent trying to make it to the top and she unwillingly gets involved in the hunt for a serial killer by getting information from the infamous dr hanibal lecter,a truly great read also the film is great too which rarely happens when a book is made into a film.Oh and another bit of usefull info for anyone who was as frustrated as me about this matter is that the music from the film where Billy is dancing infront of his video camera, this song is called Goodbye ...  Read the complete review