Silence
of the LambsSilence
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A psychotic serial killer who flays the bodies of his
victims
Locked away
A homicidal genius in an asylum for
the criminally insane
The go-between
A young FBI trainee who
must deal with one to stop the other
Having seen the film first I was kind of biased towards liking this. I thought I should explain that now, for when I start to heap praise on it that thought may temper my words.
It is either the best or second best thriller I have ever read (the alternative being Fatherland by Thomas Harris). It is simply brilliant, adjectives would not do it justice, words fail me. The tension is so great, the excitement holds you, the characters were flawed enough to be human, yet clever enough to be literary devices. Importantly they weren't cardboard cut-outs as you often get with thrillers... ok, some were like that, but with the main handful of people, you felt you understood them as a good book should.
But a good point to make is that even when I knew the plot, even when I knew how it would end, when I knew every twist and turn, even then it still engaged me enough to read in just two sitting (I would have read it all at once but at three o'clock in the morning with a nine fifteen physics tutorial, I thought this not wise).
On the whole, excellent, a must read
Score 10/10
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