Perfume was one of my favourite books in high school -- something about the "Grenouille can smell anything but does not smell like anything" aspect was a really interesting allegory for being an outcast, in a way that really spoke to me as a teenaged goth. I've wondered, since, whether the book would age well, and whether I'd find it as compelling now as I did then. So I'm glad you enjoyed it, since it suggests that my taste as a 19-year-old was perhaps not all bad! I'm especially curious about how the rather Silence of the Lambs-y treatment of women in the novel would bother me today. Did that stuff bother you?
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Date: 2012-07-30 05:18 am (UTC)