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Report this review From: YumYumMummy on 02-Apr-09 19:21 Overall rating 8.0
Quirky, gruesome, evocative. Genius how a book can get up one's nose quite so successfully

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Report this review From: muminarush on 29-Jul-08 14:55 Overall rating n/a
I've just re read this. (first read it when I was a student) and that was a very long time ago. I loved it just as much second time around. I really recommend it.

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Report this review From: funnypeculiar on 27-May-08 12:30 Overall rating 9.0
Fabulous evocation of a time & place - makes you think differently about your sense of smell!

The ending is a love-or-hate, but a very enjoyable, dark page turner.

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Report this review From: princess34 on 15-May-08 19:18 Overall rating 10.0
Fantastic book, really enjoyed it. I was hooked from the very beginning, the grotesque way in which Jean-Baptiste Grenouille came into the world, in the market place under the fish gutting table with the putrid smells all around. Loved it.

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Report this review From: Anon on 15-May-08 15:30 Overall rating 9.0
This is an amazing book. It is set in 18th Century Paris and you are immediately transformed to that place at that time. The main character is a sinister young french perfumier who has an incredible sense of smell. The author weaves through the story with an outstanding talent for describing scents and odours. It's dark, and at times horrific yet beauty jumps out from every page and you're left smelling all things good and evil.

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