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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Unlike any story I have read. The writing is wonderful, the plot extremely unique. I enjoyed learning of the process of making perfume and the need for it in that day.
Quite easily the most unique book I've ever read. Perfume is indeed the story of a murderer but much more importantly, the story of a man's (if he can be called a man at all) spiritual, romantic, erotic infatuation with odour. Suskind opens up a new sensory dimension to his readers, with the conventional perceiving organs taking a radical back seat to the only one that matters for Grenouille- the nose. Dazzlingly intense, almost to a ludicrous degree, Suskind succeeded in making me feel one part genuinely repulsed and one part intrigued by the abomination that is Grenouille. You'll be smelling things a little more closely after finishing this book.
lmao its what american psycho wants to be and fails to be. some parts are comedy gold
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Read it because I’m trying to expand my reading genres and incorporate some classics in my reads. Is this considered a classic? I thought it was, but I’m no expert lol
Dis not loved this but it was good, felt too o at times but the writing is incredible. It sometimes makes you uncomfortable and I think that makes it even better
Dis not loved this but it was good, felt too o at times but the writing is incredible. It sometimes makes you uncomfortable and I think that makes it even better
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This has to be the most lush, sumptuous writing I have read in a very long time. A whole book brimming with descriptions of scents and it never got old. I am mindful that this is a translation and I read the 1986 John E. Woods' English translation which I loved a lot. Parts three and four particularly appealed to me. Grenouille is a fascinating character, he is like a blank slate with a single-minded focus on smell, the sense that permeates and defines his whole world. He lacks morality. He is not immoral, he is amoral. Smell is one of our oldest, most primitive scents and indeed Grenouille is like a creature of olde who has somehow been birthed into a modern human society. The book's ending is dark, macabre and almost camp. It has orgies and incest and cannibalism and murder. Weird, grotesque, fragrant, repugnant, strange, creepy and lovely.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Cannibalism, Murder
Moderate: Incest
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
OMG the details in this book are 🤯! Truly multi sensory writing. Plus it’s dark and macabre with a disturbingly climactic ending.
Fun fact: It was one of Kurt Cobain’s favorite books!