The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris

Category: Adults, Suspense, Thriller
Language: English
Keywords: FBI Hannibal Lecter Serial Killer

Written by Thomas Harris
Read by Frank Muller
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

· Series: Hannibal Lecter Series, Book 2
· Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
· Release date: 04-07-11
· Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

The Author’s note in this recording is read by the author….

A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname - Buffalo Bill - is stalking women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the FBI Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, chief of the Bureau’s Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter - Hannibal the Cannibal - who is kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

Dr. Lecter is a former psychiatrist with a grisly history, unusual tastes, and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind. His intimate understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself form the core of Thomas Harris’ The Silence of the Lambs - and ingenious, masterfully written book and an unforgettable classic of suspense fiction.

“Frank Muller was DESTINED to read this book to us. Plain and simple. The book itself is brilliant, but his reading takes it to a level that I didn’t even think was possible! He nails Lector, and is PERFECT as Buffalo Bill (the other bad guy). By the way, to have TWO characters as iconic as Hannibal Lector and Buffalo Bill in the same book is quite an accomplishment unto itself. They are so different, and yet so perfectly dark in all the right ways. I found myself laughing quite a bit at Buffalo Bill’s lines, but that’s even more credit to how superb Muller’s reading was.”

“I have always felt this is one of the few movies faithful to the book. But one must listen to the hypnotic narration by Frank Muller for a different take on the story… The FBI bureaucracy and its internal politics make the listener fear the investigation will suddenly come to a screeching halt. The book shows how Agent Starling is willing to put her career on the line to stop the killing. It also deals with the terminal illness of Jack Crawford’s wife and the stress it puts him under. The biggest difference between book and movie is that Buffalo Bill is actually more terrifying and sinister that Hannibal Lecter. Buffalo Bill is still on the loose (for most of the novel) and still on a killing spree. 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.”

Personal Note….I don’t think Frank Muller ever gave a bad performance. I don’t remember whom but another well know reader once said that when he began to feel he was getting stale he listened to Frank Muller.

This is not my rip. My thank to the original uploader..