# New Lecter book coming

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-lecter-book-coming/271723>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 28, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-lecter-book-coming/271723 "2004-10-28T20:17:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-lecter-book-coming/271723/1 "2004-10-28T20:17:17Z")

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According to this [CNN story](http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/10/28/publishing.hannibal.ap/index.html) Thomas Harris is writing the book to be released next fall. I have to admit that I didn’t see this coming at all. Given the way that _Hannibal_ ended, I was under the impression that Harris didn’t want anything more to do with Hannibal the Cannibal. I guess the lure of easy money is too tempting to resist.

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**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-lecter-book-coming/271723/2 "2004-10-28T20:25:50Z")

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The reason only for this book, I’m thinking, is the same reason Michael Critchon wrote “The Lost World”: because producers expressed interest in making another movie and paid the author tons of money to write a book.

About six months or so ago they revealed they were making a Lecter prequel about his younger days, so I’m not surprised by this book.

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**Author:** ![Mithril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mithril/32/3517_2.png) [@Mithril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithril)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-lecter-book-coming/271723/3 "2004-10-28T20:51:41Z")

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Hannibal was so terrible that I hope the manuscript never makes it to print. It ruined my whole appreciation for Thomas Harris as a writer.