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Perfume: Complete and Unabridged
by Patrick Suskind
from Penguin Audio
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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A disturbing and good read 
I loved the movie and decided that I wanted to try out the book. When my reading group selected this one, I was excited to open it up. Suffice to say, I was satisfied with the book. The main character, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, was definitely... a bad person. I spent so much of the book wondering what was going on in his head, trying to diagnose just what mental illness he suffered from to be so without emotion. Cruel, perhaps not, but definitely without moral judgment or really any sense of attachment to... more info
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Fascinating, a page turner! 
The Perfume will take you back and submerge you into the 18th century with amazing ease. You will get a "sniff" of what the world looked like and how people lived. It is also the fascinating a compelling story of a lonely boy who was rejected by everyone from his birth, and who endured tremendous obstacles; however he possessed and incredible gift. This gift what was he lived for, what became his dark obsession and ultimately his destruction. A must read!
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255 pages total, 155 being blah blah blah 
I was inspired to read this after watching the movie over a year ago, thinking that the novel would be even better as movies tend to butcher novels and do them no justice. This novel needs butchering!!! Pages 33 to 37 nothing but a long list of what this fellow smells all over Paris. Pages 53 to 59 nothing but the bellyaching of a perfumer unhappy that the times are changing and advancing. And so on the book continues in this manner. Terrific story but could have been told in one hundred pages. I was... more info
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A scentillating examination of a murderer's mind!
Humans that are deprived of one or more of the senses naturally compensate by focusing and overdeveloping the remaining senses. Suskind brilliantly chose to deprive Grenouille of something other than senses, the ability to be recognized. I don't believe any human in history had a complete absence of a body scent, whether it's a pleasant or unpleasant one; we all associate places, loved ones, memories and incidents with special scents.
Jean Baptiste Grenouille was born a strange baby who lacked a body... more info
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