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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Suskind

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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Author: Patrick Suskind
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-02-13
ISBN: 0375725849
Number of pages: 255
Publisher: Vintage
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  • ISBN13: 9780375725845
  • Condition: New
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Book Review: "...raised without love, with no warmth of a human soul, surviving sole on impudence and the power of loathing..."
Summary: 5 Stars

I enjoy books about hatred, isolation, rejection, misanthropic behavior and suicide.

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was born on July 17, 1738 literally onto a putrid pile of fish guts, his life only got worse from there. After the fish guts he is sent from place to place eventually becoming a child laborer at a tanner, but even at such a young age people didn't like him. It wasn't just because of his tick-like nature, no; it was because he didn't have a scent of any kind. Subconsciously people just wanted away from him.

We follow Grenouille through various interesting episodes of his life (my favorite being when Grenouille was a guinea pig of marquis de La Taillade-Espinasse who believed that the reason humans stood erect and plants grew upward was because they were trying to escape the poisonous effects of the earth) until finally we get to the best part of the novel: Grenouille's discovery of the greatest of all scents...young hot-bodied female virgins.

The story is imaginative and hate-filled, but Suskind's writing style is really what causes the disgust of humanity to boil over. Great cynical reading.

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