2025 Reading Challenge discussion

This thread is to discuss Red Dragon, the first book in the Hannibal Lecter series by Thomas Harris.

Pages: 422 pages

Length: 1 month (September)

Participants: Kay-Mika, Beth

Everyone reads at their own pace during a Buddy Read. Because participants can be at different parts of the book at different times, it is extremely important to mark spoilers so that the book is not ruined for someone who is not as far along as others!!!

Mark spoilers by placing {spoiler} before the text and {/spoiler} after the text but use the < and > instead of the { and }.

Here are some questions to help get the conversation started! Feel free to look up discussion questions specific to this book or come up with your own. Just make sure any questions that contain spoilers are under spoiler tags.
Discussion questions are not required but may be a fun way to talk about the book and get to know each other!

Prior to starting:
What prompted you to join this buddy read?
Have you read this author before? What do you think of their other books?

Mid-read:
What character or ideas do you relate to the most and why?
Do you have any favorite quotes or scenes?

After reading:
What was enjoyable or not-so-enjoyable about this book?
Did this book change your perception about anything, either within the book (character development) or in real life?

No I haven't read anything from the author before.
But, I remember everyone being surprised when it was revealed that Hannibal was bi in one of the later books (~2000 ish).
Or a classmate was talking about it and the whole group of friends was surprised (discussions during the break period on the schoolyard). Or maybe it was a totally different book.
Anyways pinterest spammed me with hannigram and now here I am

I love that, Kay-Mika!

Harris has written only 6 books, and 4 of them make up the Hannibal Lecter series (Red Dragon being the first in the tetralogy). Those are amazing stats for an author! And all but 1 of them was made into a Hollywood movie of greater or lesser fame.

I've read this, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal (which I really did not care for), as well as Black Sunday. That was years ago, so I'm looking forward to "meeting" Dr. Lecter again.

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