Hmm..maybe it's just me who found this book something superior on that supreme kind of level..you know ever glory and more.
If you've read it you probably know that, that Nirvana song off Incesticide "Scentless Apprentice" is supposedly based on the novel.
Which was mostly my reasoning for reading the book, I liked the lyrics of the song, and hoped the book would be something kind of similar, but obviously longer in length with out vocals and other musical additions.
It took me a year to find a translated copy...Everytime I looked for "No, We only carry it in German" and the librarys would never call it in from other uni. librarys..."Its to much of a hassle. Coles should have, try there I'm sure its not too exspensive!" So I tried to pick up on some German on my own so that I could maybe read it even not translated...boy oh boy what a mistake. So the year passed and I still wanted to read it, when Coles called me and told me that had one copy in.
I paid hmm..something like $30.00 for the paper back edition...but what an investment. The book is amazing. Its like a t.v movie that is surprisingly good that you can't put on pause...your afraid that if you leave it you'll miss something of vital importance. Or at least thats the way it was with me...but I'm just weird like that.
Anyhow the books is about a man who was born without any smell of his own. But he could smell every single solitary smell around him. He devoured it...he was a perfumer's apprentice which really kinda of lead him to the hunger for human scent.
He left what we would call society and lived in some sort of outback like conditions, but re-entered society with a vengence. His hunger was stronger...until he had done the inevitable...and was turned on by the people he loved to smell.
Yes..well enough of me trying to play the intellect seeing as I've already butchered this wonderful book..