Review - The Silence of the Lambs
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wilderthanThe Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris)
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)...
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)...
