I appreciated the twist with Dolarhyde ambushing them in Marathon. I understand that Molly would be the only one around with access to a gun, but I never liked that the person who finally killed Dolarhyde was arguably the most irritating character of the book. Ah, yes. The ending. Oh, back to pissed off Alexis hating endings. This ending sucked. She got on my god damn nerves. She had no concern, care, or empathy for Will. She was so self-centered that I wanted to punch her through my Kindle.
So, from my understanding, Hannibal is only meant to be a supporting character. He is who they turn to when they get stumped on a serial killer. His whole history fascinates me instead of scaring me. I also feel, even though he is in jail for his crimes, that sentence did not whip away his brain. He is still a very well-educated man, who did his time in the stint we call school. Now, he kept his modest personality, I feel, because he was confined for his sentence.
If he were in commons, I feel like he may have changed to some extent, polite wise, but the man was far too dangerous to be around other people. We all know some people sitting on life sentences are innocent, wrongly sentenced, and even in there for misdemeanors because the system works against the poor and minorities.
It reminds me of that one social experiment where the guy went into solitary confinement and lost his fucking mind only hours in. We see in the film next week that once Lecter has a way out, he goes apeshit with his desires. I feel like something is linked to a lack of the outside world in any form and the mental state of a person, even as pristine as Hannibal. Lounds was scum. I felt no ill feelings when he got what he deserved, LOL. Two days after the Leeds murders, agent Jack Crawford, Graham's mentor, goes to Graham's Marathon, Florida residence and pleads for his assistance; Graham reluctantly agrees.
After looking over the crime scenes with only minimal insight, Graham realizes he must visit Lecter and seek his help to capture "The Tooth Fairy. David Putnam. Author 13 books followers. Loved this book. This book is vivid and very memorable. It precedes Silence of the Lambs, another great read. A movie, Manhunter was based on this book. Michael Mann directed love Mann movies. Its a great movie but the book, as always, was better.
The point of view of the antagonist was beautifully realized and that's what made the book so chilling. The chase of the antagonist--the hunt kept me reading long into the night. The way Harris slowly layered in the clues was brilliant. The method in how the antagonist chose his victims was also a great concept. A solid five stars. David Putnam the author of the Bruno Johnson series.
Lecter is living in isolation while in prison and Will Graham needs his help. Another serial killer is on the loose and Graham must go confront Lecter to get help understanding this new threat. Graham is hesitant to help due to catching two serial killers one was Dr. Lecter and Graham is not sure his sanity and soul can survive these monsters.
Graham is one of the best FBI profilers out there and Crawford knows he needs Grahams' help to catch this sadistic killer. The Tooth Fairy aka Red Dragon is an evil and tormented monster.
Red Dragon is intense, suspenseful and the psychology involved is unnerving. There were moments while reading that I was glad the lights were on.
Thomas Harris seems to tap into the serial killer mind and creep the fuck out of you. No joke. The characterization along with the heart stopping chase of stopping the Red Dragon was excellent. I also enjoyed all the forensics involved in the book. Harris seems to be one of the first to write about serial killers and he did an outstanding job. Yes, I think so. Both movies were good, but this book taps into the psychology of the serial killer that I found was missing in the movies.
Recommended to people that love crime detective books, horror and thrillers! Red Dragon opens to Will Graham on the beach behind his Florida home, his wife and stepson close by. But it's the visiting Jack Crawford who holds Will's attention at the moment. Within these first pages you come to understand the recent violent history of Graham's past with the FBI. That he has taken a life and nearly lost his own to the hands of the Hannibal Lecter we shouldn't yet know but of course we do since this book was written in ; that Graham has removed himself from that past — out of the game and the hunt of killers.
If only the men like Crawford would leave it that way, and a most recent killer hadn't arisen. It feels almost as if you're reading a second book in a series, but not at all as if you'd missed reading the first. The brief moments spent here with Hannibal are intense and revealing.
It's completely possible that I would feel differently about who Lecter is if I hadn't already known him from the Silence of the Lambs movie, but that's kind of like hearsay. A link is formed between Lecter and the Dragon, with Will in the middle, and then the spotlight smartly transitions to our new killer.
Spending too much time with Hannibal would have been a mistake. It was right about this point that he surprises me by snatching Lounds literally biting his lips off and then returning him by a fiery fate.
Note: The book has some sickly, gruesome moments, but it is so well done. Through the midst of this, the reader is treated to the killer's childhood and tutelage, so to speak. Understanding Dolarhyde's past and what he becomes does not make you like or identify with him cause he's a crazed killer , but it serves in broadening the entire experience.
Three-dimensions is the key to this and many stories, and I loved it. A quick aside in my review. I actually held Red Dragon in my hands as a very young teen in This may have been the second or third book I'd received after joining a book club, and I had probably read the first three or four chapters before stopping Graham inside the first victim's home was still clear to me.
Was I too young for the Killer-Thriller genre, and my first crime novel? I don't know. I had read Cujo by that point in time, but I guess that's somewhat different, and it's possible that this story was all too real for me at that point. Anyway, it's a memory I have. I'd be remiss by not mentioning how strong and well-written the character of Will Graham is here.
I don't believe I'll see him after this and will miss him. As far as my rating, even though I'm not certain how much I liked what feels like a movie style ending, Red Dragon is far too good to receive anything but 5 stars. My god what a creepy start it is. This is a sinister, heart palpitating book which has you reaching for the next in the series as soon as possible.
Do I recommend this??? Hannibal Lecter rises! This is the first novel about Dr. Hannibal Lecter, introducing the character. When you're reading you could think that Will Graham would be the "hero" of this book series, but the tremendous success of Dr.
Hannibal Lecter, even before the filming of The Silence of the Lambs based on the sequel book , it was clear that the "good guy" won't the "hero" of this book series but And you won't find badder guy than Dr. During a conversation with another officer, Graham discusses briefly Lecter's crimes and how he captured him. Lecter had murdered nine people and critically injured another two, and Graham was nearly killed when he discovered evidence implicating Lecter as the killer; his sixth victim was arranged as the medical diagram Wound Man.
When Graham went to call for back up, Lecter snuck up behind him and almost disemboweled him. Although experts label Dr Lecter as a "sociopath", it is only because they don't know what else to call him.
Graham prefers to think of him as a "monster". Graham visits Lecter at the Chesapeake Hospital where he is held. After a tense and unwelcome greeting by Frederick Chilton , he finally meets Lecter.
Lecter notices that Graham is still wearing the same aftershave he wore in court. He greets Graham and quickly works out that he is here to consult him on the Tooth Fairy murders.
Lecter goads Graham on the true reason he has come here and requests to look at the case file. After examining the case, Lecter believes the killer is disfigured and smashes the mirrors in the houses so that he can see himself in their eyes. Before Graham leaves, Lecter taunts him one last time, the reason Graham caught him is that "we're just alike".
The Tooth Fairy is revealed to be a St. Louis film processing technician named Francis Dolarhyde. Dolarhyde is unable to control his violent, sexual urges, and believes that murdering people—or "changing" them, as he calls it—allows him to more fully "become" an alternate personality he calls the "Great Red Dragon," after the dominant character in Blake's painting. Flashbacks reveal that his pathology is born from the systematic abuse he suffered as a child at the hands of both his sadistic grandmother and his stepfamily.
As Graham investigates the case, he is continuously hounded by Freddy Lounds , a sleazy tabloid reporter who had humiliated Graham by publishing photos of his wounds after the Lecter case. Meanwhile, Lecter's de facto jailer, Frederick Chilton , discovers a secret correspondence between Lecter and Dolarhyde, in which Lecter provides the killer with Graham's home address.
Graham's wife and stepson are evacuated to a remote farm belonging to Crawford's brother. Graham tries to intercept the secret communication without Lecter's knowledge.
Lecter is punished by having his privileges removed. Lounds becomes aware of the correspondence and tries to trick Graham into revealing details of the investigation by posing as the Tooth Fairy, but is found out.
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