# What was the book ending to Hannibal? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 24, 2002, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-book-ending-to-hannibal/115784 "2002-06-24T22:39:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-book-ending-to-hannibal/115784/41 "2002-06-28T12:55:10Z")
Am I the only one who doesn’t think the Hannibal character is a “cool guy”? Not so much so in the first two books, or maybe I just didn’t notice it when I read them, but Hannibal is incredibly pretentious- and fascistic about it too. Harris, the author tries to make the victims unsympathetic, but it is clear that Hannibal considers their biggest crime being “proles”. Hannibal should _never_ have been the central character of the book, he is the most annoying combination of Niles Crane and Leatherface… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-book-ending-to-hannibal/115784/42 "2002-06-28T12:58:52Z")
Well, no, but there is apparently a little bit of many people in Lecter. Red Dragon has that wonderfull scene with Lecter and Graham, forshadowing Starling, in Lecter’s prison/hospital. Lecter makes the point that Harris beats into the ground in that novel, that the tortured Graham is so very like a serial killer that he is able to think like them and capture them. Remarking on aftershave “that might have been chosen by a child” a ploy to find out more about Graham, Lecter then says “How did you catch me, Will?” “You had a disadvantage.” “And what was that?” “You are insane.” So, Graham is dog mea…er, Lecter meat from that point on if not before. It is an insight to Lecter the bad guy, willing to harm the child and Lecter the fallible. But someone else has just posted…heck, probably a mod with that sock puppet thing. Maybe a saucy little chianti… ---
**Author:** ![QueenAl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/d26b3c/32.png) [@QueenAl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QueenAl)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-book-ending-to-hannibal/115784/43 "2002-06-28T13:00:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tristan \* > \*\*I think there’s a little bit of Lecter in all of us.l \*\* If Lecter had his way, it’d be the other way round… ---
**Author:** ![QueenAl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/d26b3c/32.png) [@QueenAl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QueenAl)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-book-ending-to-hannibal/115784/44 "2002-06-28T13:03:43Z")
Bugger, should have hit preview. **Carnivorousplant** , we cross-joked! Btw, it’s ironic that one of those saying Lecter was a monster should be called _Carnivorous_plant. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-book-ending-to-hannibal/115784/45 "2002-06-28T13:56:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by grendel72 \* > \*\*Am I the only one who doesn’t think the Hannibal character is a “cool guy”? > Not so much so in the first two books, or maybe I just didn’t notice it when I read them, but Hannibal is incredibly pretentious- and fascistic about it too. Harris, the author tries to make the victims unsympathetic, but it is clear that Hannibal considers their biggest crime being “proles”. > Hannibal should _never_ have been the central character of the book, he is the most annoying combination of Niles Crane and Leatherface… \*\* I don’t consider Hannibal a “cool guy.” But the thought of David Hyde Pierce being cast as him is damn cool! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-book-ending-to-hannibal/115784/46 "2002-06-28T14:15:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Annie-Xmas \* > \*\* David Hyde Pierce being cast as him is damn cool! \*\* I’m a Brian Cox guy myself. Who the hell is David Hyde Pierce? [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0289765](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0289765) ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-book-ending-to-hannibal/115784/47 "2002-06-28T15:03:44Z")
David Hyde Pierce would have been better suited to play Jeffrey Dahmer. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-book-ending-to-hannibal/115784/48 "2002-06-28T15:16:28Z")
[http://us.imdb.com/Name?Hyde+Pierce,+David](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Hyde+Pierce,+David) The Tattler reporter, maybe. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-book-ending-to-hannibal/115784/49 "2002-06-28T18:40:20Z")
Tristan: I forgot about his biting out the eye and tongue of the nurse. Do any of you ladies _really_ want to neck with this guy? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-book-ending-to-hannibal/115784.md?page=2)