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by Patrick Süskind
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Book Talk
Book Talk rated it 12 years ago
Read this ages ago, I can't believe I haven't added it here yet.THE BEST CLASSICS I HAVE READ SO FAR!
Anna in Nerdvana
Anna in Nerdvana rated it 12 years ago
Nirvana reviewed it the best. (I assure you, i can't get more unoriginal than that)PersonnelKurt Cobain (mouth/guitar)Dave Grohl (drums)Krist Novoselic (bass guitar) Like most babies smell like butterHis smell smelled like no otherHe was born scentless and senselessHe was born a scentless apprentice...
even with nougat, you can have a perfect moment
Eh, not for me, I don't think. I was expecting a creepy tale but it just didn't engage me. The writing was okay, but nothing special, and it just didn't grab me. I also accidentally spoiled the ending for myself which sounds utterly bizarre and doesn't make me feel like continuing at all. I might...
The Book Magpie's Nest
The Book Magpie's Nest rated it 12 years ago
Eh, not for me, I don't think. I was expecting a creepy tale but it just didn't engage me. The writing was okay, but nothing special, and it just didn't grab me. I also accidentally spoiled the ending for myself which sounds utterly bizarre and doesn't make me feel like continuing at all. I might...
Kiwiria
Kiwiria rated it 12 years ago
A 2.5 star review.I'm having a really hard time figuring out how to review this. The plot was very weird, and the main character - though fascinating - was so entirely unsympathetic that I didn't even mind that he died at the end.Apparently this has been turned into a movie? I can't even begin to im...
LondaLocs
LondaLocs rated it 12 years ago
The first chapter of this book is outstanding! I was so drawn into the aromatic world that Suskind so brilliantly described, that I just had to read about Grenouille and his talent (or curse)Grenouille was supposed to be despicable even as a child. The kind of child that even Santa would kick. I fou...
Hellen
Hellen rated it 12 years ago
(...) there were no things at all in Grenouille's innermost universe, only the odours of things. (Which is why the façon de parler speaks of that universe as a landscape; a no more than adequate expression, to be sure, but the only possible one, since our language is of no use when it comes to descr...
Olivia Smith... and her BookWorld
Olivia Smith... and her BookWorld rated it 12 years ago
I found this book in the shelf of my eldest sister and I thought: Why not reading it, when I already watched the movie? So I started reading and reading. And reading and reading. I couldn't stop to break out from France in the 18th century. This story is a masterpiece! Patrick Süskind writes i...
sj
sj rated it 12 years ago
Originally posted here.Patrick Süskind's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is one of those books that I love, but have a difficult time putting into words WHY EXACTLY I love it.This book tackles very serious (and disturbing) subject matter, but manages to not take itself too seriously at the same tim...
Chrissie's Books
Chrissie's Books rated it 12 years ago
Boring, at least for me, but I can see why people think it is well executed. The main character, Jean-Baptiste is totally lacking in emotion, and the story line breathes with the same meticulous clear step by step relating of the events. It all starts in Paris with the birth of Jean-Baptiste near th...
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