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Old Feb 7th, 2007, 04:09 PM       
I've been debating whether or not I should read the entire Hannibal series, of which a background story has just come out. I just find Hannibal Lecter to be too contradictory and thus far-fetched. He eats people out of degradation because he sees himself above the common run of man, he's a brilliant psychologist, yet he doesn't realize that he's trapped in this paradigm. Or, if he does realize it, he does nothing but perpetuate it. I can understand certain aspects of him and his eating of CERTAIN characters, but mostly I think he's a poor taboo-clutching schtick. It's always hard to write about a genius when you're not one yourself (as is my situation), but I doubt Harris has the qualifications to make an Übermensch who eats people because of his troubled childhood.
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