![]() And, possibly, worse: turns us on in sick places we never knew we had. We're chained to his point-of-view, so his sick, violent misogyny involves and implicates us. It's what Lou does to women that's truly sickening: overwhelming them, beating them, punishing them, humiliating them. Relatively speaking, it's no big deal when he kills a man. Hannibal Lecter may kill, but he's cool and scientific about it, and because "Silence" has a third-person narrator with some restraint, we don't see him eating someone's liver and fava beans as he drinks a nice Chianti.īut because Lou Ford is our tour guide, we see his murders from inches away. Blame it on the sex - the violent sex and the violence after sex. ![]() How twisted? This book leaves "Silence of the Lambs" in the dust. His is is a twisted tale, told by a sociopath from his point of view. The novel is narrated by the main character, Lou Ford, deputy sheriff of Central City, Texas (population: 48,000). ![]()
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