Patrick Suskind - El Perfume: Historia De UN Asesino

Pros: page turning horror book

Cons: some difficult words

Review: After getting this book for my birthday a month ago I was very skeptical of its content. However I was told that this was a very good book I didn't really believe it.
The second I picked it up and started to read, my opinion changed 100%....

Pros: Written like a fairy-tale, very original

Cons: none

Review: Most probably my favorite book of all time. I'm not quite sure any description I could give this book would do it justice. The ending was the single most mind-blowing conclusion to a novel that I've ever encountered. I never could have imagined a novel...

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Review: EDITOR'S NOTE: I wrote this review back when I still trying to decide whether to approach a book review with gut feeling or discussing the plot itself. Unfortunately, I tipped too far in the latter direction, and give away almost everything in the book. ...

Pros: will bring about an awakening of the olfactory sense, gripping story

Cons: Very long sentences

Review: My mom handed me a copy of this 1986 first time novel by Patrick Suskind and told me that I should read it. It took me years to actually sit down and do more than start on it. But now that I have finally finished the book, I find that I can't get the...

Pros: the plot is fantastic, first time novel

Cons: translated version isn't as good as original.

Review: Perfume
Author: Patrick Suskind
ISBN# 0-671-64370-3
$4.50

Perfume was suggested to me a couple months back as one of the best crime novels ever. So after a short search, I found the english version of Perfume at a bookstore in a...

Pros: graphic, sensory, singular attention to detail

Cons: too short; one slightly sophomoric scene which detracts from the integrity of the rest of the text

Review: Really a surprising and great read. From
the first paragraph you know you are in
for an unusually and sensory experience.

Suskind's work is about a multiple
murderer who has a super-human sense
of smell. The writing...

Pros: broad appeal; fine book to get tv heads in the habit

Cons: makes your bag heavier

Review: a fine argument for the preservation of the printed medium. capturing in the most efficient and effective possible way the one physical sense that dares and defies most writers and medias: the fickle sense of smell. and so nimbly written as to...

Pros: Interesting story idea.

Cons: Poor character development, weak story progression.

The Bottom Line: I'd take a pass on this one because it never reaches the heights you expect it to.

Review: I have a fairly strong sense of smell, so I can kind of relate to Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the bizzarely scentless anti-hero with an incomparable sense of smell in Patrick Suskind's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. And you have to give ...

Pros: It can be read quickly

Cons: The plot, language and pacing. If you ignore all of that Perfume's a good book

The Bottom Line: Don't waste you're time or money on Perfume. There are plenty of better books out there.

Review: Perfume the only novel of Patrick Suskind's available in an English translation is a perennia ...