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Posted: Dec 09 2006 08:27 pm

I don't read James Patterson and I can't think of Alex Cross without thinking of Morgan Freeman, but "Cross" sounds like a fairly interesting novel to check out. His wife is killed, Cross is out for revenge, the title of the book is named after him, what's not to like?

And despite the bad reviews for "Hannibal Rising", I know I'll force myself to read it soon enough.

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Tebor wrote:

And despite the bad reviews for "Hannibal Rising", I know I'll force myself to read it soon enough.

Aw, heck. It's getting bad reviews?

Posted: Dec 09 2006 10:49 pm

Is it about Hannibal Lecter?

Joined: Feb 24 2006 Posts: 2578

Syd Lexia wrote:

Is it about Hannibal Lecter?

Yeah, it's the prequel book, about young Hannibal.

Posted: Dec 11 2006 03:51 am

DarkMaze wrote:

Tebor wrote:

And despite the bad reviews for "Hannibal Rising", I know I'll force myself to read it soon enough.

Aw, heck. It's getting bad reviews?

I'm just going off Amazon (professional reviews haven't been too good either), and most of the reviews I skimmed sounded very questionable.

A few people who didn't like "Hannibal" thought this was worse, which is kinda what I'm afraid of. Though a lot of the people who didn't like it, didn't like it because of the lack of Dr. Lecter-ness and FBI content in it. I'm willing to forfeit both if his backstory is told engagingly enough. His backstory has already been revealed, but if it's told well, I know I'll enjoy it.