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Creepy. That's all I can say. And yet, like a good vampire novel, it highlights a lot about what it means to be human -- in a very chilling way.
Perfume tells the story of a cipher, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille with an incredible gift: perhaps the best perfumer's nose ever created. But that nose is attached to a deformed person incapable of loving. Suskind refers to Grenouille as a tick, sucking life-blood when available. falling off before waiting for and falling on his next victim. Indeed, Gren ...more
Perfume tells the story of a cipher, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille with an incredible gift: perhaps the best perfumer's nose ever created. But that nose is attached to a deformed person incapable of loving. Suskind refers to Grenouille as a tick, sucking life-blood when available. falling off before waiting for and falling on his next victim. Indeed, Gren ...more
I have always had a sensitivity to smells. So when I read this, I understood completely the interest in odors. I often envision myself as the main character (not murdering mind you) but smelling his way around town. The reader explores a real sense of the malodorous content streaming forth from the Parisian houses, stores, and sidewalks. Read the book. Do not watch the movie.
I did not like this book despite the fact it had a strong narrative voice and brilliant description of a sense than most authors stink at describing--smell. These two things give it two stars. Beyond that, the combination of the utterly, unbelievably fantastical with the grounding in hard, detailed historical reality was more cognitive dissonance than I could tolerate. The character was "a tick", utterly unlikeable, and ultimately, unbelievable. His actions were unspeakable tho' more believable
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Reading this book made me realize how poor my sense of smell is. I never thought about the smell of rocks, well maybe on a summer day. The authors prose is amazing, I also watched the mover after reading the book, It was well done.
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