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Personally, I think Harris has been going down-hill sense Red Dragon. RD is a wonderful book - intelligent, haunting, fast-paced - really the ideal "profiler/serial killer" book - which I suppose is why so many people have imitated it. SOL was a fair book, a bit bloated and under-developed, and the film was actually better than the book - tight, stream-lined, more impact. Hannibal was excessively bloated. But, contrary to Urgeok's opinion, I think Harris wrote the book to be unfilmable - a kind of "hey, try to adapt this psycho-philosophical babble" into a thriller. Of course, Demme wouldn't /couldn't do it - and Ridley Scott just wanted to show someone eating his own brain (which helped the film break records for opening of an R-rated film!).
I doubt there will be another Hannibal book - or that Harris will ever write anything of worth again. Maybe he'll go back to reporting for that newspaper in Waco.
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