The adventure that the book develops is so frightening that you can't stop listening. If not, it might thrill her to hear a man with a voice so convincing, so deep and vivid that one almost forgets that he's a man. I wonder if Jodie Foster has listened to Frank. The movie was perhaps the scariest thing I've seen, although I do remember not being able to watch several scenes from "Alien." To hear Frank voice these characters with all his skills at their peak is a delight that one wants to share with the world. Thomas Harris wrote one masterpiece, and this is it.
The plot goes a long way to scare the bejeebers out of you, and it succeeds wildly. This audiobook is thrilling, brilliant, very scary and it will get to you, no matter how worldly you are. In the end Clarice Starling is the more interesting character, not Hannibal the Cannibal, because of her constant fight against a law enforcement world dominated by men and her ability to change, grow and thrive in it.įrank Muller was a genius. Buffalo Bill is still on the loose(for most of the novel) and still on a killing spree. The biggest difference between book and movie is that Buffalo Bill is actually more terrifying and sinister that Hannibal Lecter. It also deals with the terminal illness of Jack Crawford's wife and the stress it puts him under. The book shows how Agent Starling is willing to put her career on the line to stop the killing. The FBI bureaucracy and it's internal politics makes the listener fear the investigation will suddenly come to a screeching halt.
But there are some aspects of the book that just could not fit into the time limit of the movie. It would be ludicrous to summarize this tale, we all know it. But one must listen to the hypnotic narration by Frank Muller for a different take on the story. I have always felt this is one of the few movies faithful to the book.
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