Journal Entry 1 by froggirlwendy from Brisbane, Queensland Australia on Sunday, March 04, 2007

FROM THE BACK:
Survivor. Genius. Perfumer. Killer: This is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille.

Patrick Süskind tells the story of a child born in the 17th Century in Paris, who has an astounding sense of smell, but no scent of his own. The child is ugly and in many ways retarded, but in the field of scents he is a genius.

He becomes apprenticed to a perfumer, and creates scents the like the world has never smelled before. During this time, he discovers the source of the world's most beautiful smell, a young woman, and kills her to own the smell.

His years as a perfumer have taught him much, so he decides to create a perfume from her scent, instead of simply killing her and smelling her like the last one. He sets out to find girls with complementary fragrances, kills them, then extracts their scent to make a base for which her scent can be the headnote.

Terror grips Grasse as beautiful young women keep being found dead, naked, and shorn of their hair, especially since none of the victims have been sexually violated. Finally, his intended victim's father decides to get his daughter to safety away from Grasse. He follows, and kills her as she sleeps in an inn.

He is eventually found, arrested, and condemned to death for the murders. His nightmares have been getting worse, and he fears suffocation by his own lack of scent. When he is brought to his execution, he sprinkles some of the perfume over himself, and the crowd falls under his spell, worshipping him and being driven into a lustful frenzy by the glory of his scent.

He despairs, because although the scent may fool others, it cannot fool him, so he sneaks off back to Paris. He walks into the Cimetiére des Innocents (cemetery of the innocents), where thieves, murderers and prostitutes live, and douses himself with his perfume. They immediately fall in love with him, and, being who they are, want to own a piece of him. Soon he is dismembered and eaten, having brought a little joy to their awful lives.
 

Journal Entry 2 by froggirlwendy from Brisbane, Queensland Australia on Wednesday, April 18, 2007

BOOKRINGING THIS ONE

No hard and fast rules. Just journal an entry when you receive it and also when sending it on to the next reader. Read it within a reasonable time but no pressure, we all have busy lives. If you get stuck with too many books and need to keep it for a while, just keep me up to date with books movements so I can let the other readers know. Enjoy (hopefully) :o)

Participants so far:

cat207 - NSW
katfysh - NSW
leeess - VIC
livrecache - VIC - SKIPPED
BellaMack - TAS
back to froggirlwendy <--- Book is here
 

Journal Entry 3 by froggirlwendy at Controlled release in Boondall, Queensland Australia on Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Released 5 yrs ago (4/25/2007 UTC) at Controlled release in Boondall, Queensland Australia

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

RELEASE NOTES:

Bookring starting it's journey - on it's way to cat207. Enjoy :o) 

Journal Entry 4 by cat207 from Gladstone, Queensland Australia on Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Arrived in this morning's mail. Thank you froggirlwendy for sharing. X 

Journal Entry 5 by cat207 from Gladstone, Queensland Australia on Sunday, May 06, 2007

I was enjoying this but when I got towards the end I found it so incredibly unbelievable it lost it's charm.

On to katfysh in tomorrow's mail. Enjoy. X 

Journal Entry 6 by katfysh from Penrith, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Received yesterday, thank you cat 207. Just finishing another book ring then I'll get started on this. I'm looking forward to it! 

Journal Entry 7 by katfysh from Penrith, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, July 01, 2007

I was incredibly busy with uni work while I was reading this (hence why I took so long) so perhaps I didn't give it the attention it required, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I had anticipated.

Sending to leeess tomorrow, thanks froggirlwendy for hosting the ring. 

Journal Entry 8 by leeess from Geelong, Victoria Australia on Thursday, July 05, 2007

Bookring received today.
I don't even remember signing up for this, nor giving out my address!!
However, yesterday, I finished my last book yesterday, so can do this one today!
Cheers,
Lisa 

Journal Entry 9 by leeess from Geelong, Victoria Australia on Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Quite a good read....a little bit creepy though 

Journal Entry 10 by leeess from Geelong, Victoria Australia on Wednesday, August 15, 2007

livrecache is a bit inundated at the moment, so i''ll PM BelleMack for her address.
Cheers,
leeess 

Journal Entry 11 by BellaMack from St Helens, Tasmania Australia on Friday, August 24, 2007

Have a number of bookrings to get through before I can read this ... thanks for sharing :) 

Journal Entry 12 by BellaMack from St Helens, Tasmania Australia on Friday, August 24, 2007

Very dark, very creepy ...

I read a couple of pages (as you do with a new book that you can't read right away, just as a taste so to speak) as I have other bookrings before this one. And six hours later I turned the last page ... I was totally engrossed in the book. I must admit I felt kind of stunned at the end , not because the end was shocking or unbelievable, but because of the darkness of the book in its entirety. I would read other books by this author. I felt he kept applying word layers to create almost 3D imaging (if that makes sense) ... very powerful writing, in my opinion.

 

Journal Entry 13 by froggirlwendy from Brisbane, Queensland Australia on Saturday, September 29, 2007

Arrived home safely today. Thanks to everyone who joined this ring. I'll put this one on to my TBR pile for a later date. Hugs :o)