Das Parfum: Die Gescheicht eines Mördedrs, written by Patrick Süskind was excellent. Not a minute of reading it was wasted. It should have been a rather quick read (the pacing made it so in many places), but I kept getting distracted.
The book focuses on scent, a concept that cannot be grasped by smelling the page, but by diction (and here is where the book parts from the film, in that there are no descriptions in the film and you have no idea what details of scents are being smelled half the time). I found the concept of so many sensations from one book a delicious creation. By the time I had finished, I had a renewed sense of smell, and I swear my nose became much more sensitive than before.
The ending was not what I had expected (well, Grenouille's ending was, but only at the last moment). I had hopes of Laure remaining alive, or running away with Grenouille, or him helping her to escape, but alas. And alas again, I have said too much.
As I said before, I loved the pacing of this book. It was in that way a hasty narrator speeds through the background story of a film's character, but keeping all the details. I love that. And well, this book isn't that fresh in my head anymore, and I'm sorry to say that I've sadly reached the end of this review. Short, wasn't it? I suppose there isn't really much to be said for books unless it's fresh in your head. I'll try again later.
Smell 0/10. Imagery of smells 10/10. Character development 9/10.
