I have had quite an appetite for reading. I finally managed to get my hands on a library copy of Michael Crichton's Next. He is good at writing likable heroes, and there are several in this book, including two talking apes, a talking bird (that has been watching too much TV and loves country music) and a room full of nerds that got straight A's in Biology.
I'm also hugely impressed by the bibliography at the end of the novel. He certainly did his scientific homework.
But the talking bird dialogue was funny as hell.
A pre- prequel to Silence of the Lambs. Hannibal Rising describes how Hannibal Lechter survived the Nazi's, and was warped by them. I thought it would be another thriller-mystery story, and I guess it is (he kills a few people but, as usual, they're just "free range" trashy folks). He matches wits with another investigator/detective type.
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