Naps and Murderers

[brigdh]

...I just woke up from a seven hour nap. Seven hours! Hopefully this is not a sign of any impending illnesses.

You know, I like sleep. It's a good thing: warm, cozy, comfortable, etc, etc. I just wish it didn't take quite so long. There were so many things I could have done today; I had plans. Massive plans! World-changing plans, even. I'm sure that my total dominion of the planet would have been in place long ago if I had those extra eight hours a day to work with. Also, now I'm starving.


Anyway. Has anyone else read Perfume by Patrick Suskind? I thought it was a good book- very good premise, and I liked the style a lot- but I feel like the ending didn't live up to the beginning. Any opinions?

Comments

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

That's not a nap, man. That's more sleep than I get most *nights*.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

It's been so long since I read the book I can't remember anything more than an appreciation of the book's accomplishments entirely divorced from any sense of emotional engagement.

To save this comment from being entirely a waste of time, I will add that I've always assumed this book inspired Nirvana's "Scentless Apprentice".

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

...having looked up the lyrics, that song is eerily appropriate.

[kessie.livejournal.com]

I consaider it a good thing to get 7 hours a night! I usually average 5 hours, though I need at least 8 to be reasonably okay for the day. Methinks this could be why I feel so absolutely wretched lately.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Same here; I usually don't get anywhere near that amount of sleep. Which, I guess, explains why I was tired enough to take a nap like that. *laughs*

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I felt the same way about Perfume: beautifully written (and in translation too!), a great concept, not so much on the emotional involvement, and the end was basically I have no idea where I'm going with this, so I'll ramble on for a while and then spoiler, the end.

A book which is somewhat dated (you'll see what you mean when you read it) but which is similar in that every single thing I wrote above applies to it, except the abrupt ending is slightly different, is Brian D'Amato's Beauty. It's about a really creepy artist/unlicensed plastic surgeon who expresses his serious issues with women by trying to create the Ultimate Beauty. I recommend it. I've been hoping for years D'Amato would write something else, but no such luck.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for the reccommendation! It sounds interesting, to say the least. *grins*

[eag.livejournal.com]

Read Perfume a while back, on recommendation. All I can say is, "Meh." It's one of those things which I thought had a neat idea, but really kind of fell apart toward the end. There's a lot of books like that, and it's just depressing.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yep, I felt the exact same way. Kinda sad, because it did have such promise.