Friday, September 08, 2006

Perfume by Patrick Suskind. - Read about half of it. Didn't grab me. No interesting characters and even the monster only had one thing going for him - his preternatural sense of smell. Descriptions of perfume industry and perfume making were interesting to a point. Concept is lovely - a person with no personal odor who therefore disconcerts everyone who comes in contact with him and who experiences the world primarily through smell - but the concept is all the book has going for it. Not really a hit.

Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys by Candace Savage.

City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer.

Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton

Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith

Mirror and Death Trance by Graham Masterton

As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem

Tokyo by Mo Haydar

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