The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris Reviews

Clarice Starling is a trainee FBI agent who is sent by her boss to interview Dr Hannibal Lecter in the hope that he may help the FBI to track down a serial killer. Lecter is not only a convicted serial killer, but also a killer who liked to indulge himself by eating certain body parts of his victims. Thomas Harris has set the character of ...  Read the complete review

The Silence of the Lambs is probably the most famous of Thomas Harris's books... and more than likely the best. It marks the return of Hannibal Lecter and the introduction of one of his best characters, FBI Agent Clarice Starling. It's hard to imagine Clarice Starling as anyone else but Jodie Foster now but try to cast that out of your mind as ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

This truly is an excellent book and well worth reading. If you have seen the film and think you know it, then think again, the book is much better and in my opinion, grips you much more. THE STORY: The central base of the story is about Hannibal Lector, a serial killer and Clarance Starling a FBI Trainee. The aim of the story ...  Read the complete review

Having watched the film I felt almost compelled to read the book. I was not dissapointed in the slightest. It fulfilled my evert expectation and more. Thomas Harris uses his excellent skill of luring the reader into the book withsuch intensity that you feel almost unable to put it down until you have finished reading it. The book has a ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

Discovering the identity of a serial killer is a combination of research, relations and a lot of physical action. This book tells the tale of the FBI's investigation into the serial killer 'Buffalo Bill'. Clarice Starling is a young women studying to become a member of the FBI, she gets drawn into the case by asking to do a ...  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. ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

'The Silence of the Lambs' shot into the public consciousness as a superb film starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. The name refers to the laying to rest of past memories of one of the main characters, Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee who is sent to interview a prisoner in a psychiatric prison, mass-murderer Hannibal Lecter. She ...  Read the complete review

After I read Red Dragon I was really looking forward to reading The Silence of the Lambs. I was totally blown away by this book. I thought that it was brilliant the way Hannibal was depicted asking Clarice about the screaming lambs and the way he played with people's minds. Anyone with a weak stomach shouldn't read this. ...  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 ...  Read the complete review