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|title=The Silence Of The Lambs

|sort=Silence Of Lambs, The

|publisher=Arrow Books

|date=August 1988

|website=http://www.randomhouse.com/features/thomasharris/

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|summary=Still as thrilling and original as twenty five years ago. Read it and meet a generation's bogey man.

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Well, I suppose I know what all the fuss is about now. Except it isn’t fuss, not any more. It’s so famous that it’s become part of our language. People who’ve never read the book or seen the film can name at least one of the characters. At twenty five, I am the same age as Silence of the Lambs (the novel) and only three years older than the film, which is incidentally the same age as my brother. I cannot remember a time when Hannibal Lecter was not the bogey man. For some years I was under the impression that Buffalo Bill was a real serial killer. There is even a rather catchy and charming song entitled ''It Rubs The Lotion On It’s Skin''.