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This is a little slip of a book and quite why it should make the 1001 Books list at all is a mystery to me. There’s nothing wrong with it, but it’s not a patch on Perfume, his previous book.
You get a feeling that the nine years spent between Perfume and Pigeon were pretty barren as far as literature goes for Suskind and, when pressed for some content, he gave in and allowed his publishers to issue the precis for the novel that had eluded him.
It’s a shame because the premise is a good one and, wi ...more
You get a feeling that the nine years spent between Perfume and Pigeon were pretty barren as far as literature goes for Suskind and, when pressed for some content, he gave in and allowed his publishers to issue the precis for the novel that had eluded him.
It’s a shame because the premise is a good one and, wi ...more
Maybe it's because we're in the middle of a pandemic and this book cuts too close to home, if you'll forgive the pun. The gradual disintegration of the protagonist's carefully built habits is too painful to read right now, even with the shortness of this book. Just...not right now please. Maybe I'll finish it once the world returns to a semi-normal status.
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Jan 19, 2008
Virginia
marked it as 1001-books-to-go
Aug 28, 2011
Chas
marked it as to-read
Jan 05, 2023
Valerie F
marked it as to-read
