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30

Teaser Tuesdays: Perfume

2009 at 8am     Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

  • Grab your current read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
  • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
  • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week, I’m reading Perfume by Patrick Suskind. If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I’m completely enamored with this unusual story—that I can’t stop talking about— about a man who has no scent of his own but an incredible sense of smell. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille devotes his entire existence to cataloging all of the scents in his world in pursuit of creating or capturing  the one that will give him unending pleasure.  And he’s willing to do just about anything to get it.

Here are a few lines from page 42:

This one scent was the higher principle, the pattern by which the others must be ordered. It was pure beauty.

Grenouille knew for certain that unless he possessed this scent, his life would have no meaning. He had to understand its smallest detail, to follow it to is last delicate tendril; the mere memory, however complex, was not enough.

What are you reading this week?

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  1. Lisa on June 30th, 2009 9:59 am

    Oh my! I’ve heard very good things about this book.

    My teaser is here.

  2. avisannschild on June 30th, 2009 10:50 am

    My partner read this book and loved it, but my impression is that it’s too grim for me. Interesting teaser though!

  3. JoAnn on June 30th, 2009 11:04 am

    Very intriguing! I’ve been reading lots of good things about this book lately.

  4. Popin on June 30th, 2009 1:05 pm

    This was one of the weirdest books I’ve read. I loved it though and hope you’re enjoying it also! When I read it, I was surprised at the dark humour that was there. Great read and great teaser!

    ~ Popin

  5. lena on June 30th, 2009 1:54 pm

    A great line to steal out of the book!

    And Avis – it isn’t too grim at all. The author is very minimalistic with the gorey details of anything.

  6. avisannschild on June 30th, 2009 2:22 pm

    Thanks, Lena! I’m still not convinced the book is for me, but that’s good to know.

  7. Margot on June 30th, 2009 3:26 pm

    Good teaser. It’s hard to imagine a person with absolutely no scent. I like the cover and it’s obvious you really like the book. Thanks for tipping us towards a good one.

  8. kashicat on June 30th, 2009 6:30 pm

    What an interesting premise for a book! And an excellent teaser to top it of.

    Meanwhile, my own teaser is at Bookishgal

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