I honestly am still not sure if I really liked the story or not. The book I did. It was well written. The story was interesting. I actually read it very easily after I got used to the authors rhythm. Though we have not read it at our meeting I think it will definatly bring about some interesting conversations. And even in the end I liked Grenouille even with all his faults.

A challenging story that is dark; how a man can be born without any scent and has such a profound sense of smell that he can identify people by their odor from a very long distance is hard to believe. He has such a detached personality he does not see anything wrong will killing to obtain someone's scent. His manipulation of people at the end is also very hard to believe.