{"id":3277,"date":"2024-09-25T11:43:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T10:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2024-09-25T11:43:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T10:43:01","slug":"review-perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer-by-patrick-suskind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer-by-patrick-suskind\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick S\u00fcskind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a very strange and deeply unpleasant book about a young man who knew no love growing up in 18th century France, has a virtual super-power in his sense of smell, and becomes a serial killer focussing his attention of beautiful young women.  And yet &#8212; it&#8217;s a very interesting book and worth reading.  One learns a lot about scent and how perfume is made.  And also about the everyday cruelty and violence of life just a few centuries ago.  I read this when visiting Provence, including the town where much of the book is set, Grasse.  Grasse has a international museum of perfumes and their shop actually sells this book.  (I assume they haven&#8217;t read it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And one strange note:  When it looked for it on Amazon, I read this was the number one bestseller in their category &#8220;Erotic Science Fiction&#8221;. It&#8217;s not erotic and it&#8217;s not science fiction.  Maybe there should be a new category for &#8220;Psychotic Serial Killers Who Make Perfume&#8221;.  Too niche, right?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very strange and deeply unpleasant book about a young man who knew no love growing up in 18th century France, has a virtual super-power in his sense of smell, and becomes a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}