Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind

Completed Feb. 27 0/5
This book is about a man who is born with no odour, but the worlds keenest sense of smell. After about 15 years (and 150 pages) worth of filler he decides to manufacture a perfume made from people, and starts killing them to steal their scent.
I had originally decided to give ratings of one to five, but I had to make an exception for this one. This was one of the worst books I have ever read. It took five pages to say what could have been said in one well written paragraph. It wasn't pretty writing either, just saying the same thing over and over and listing the fifty different scents that made up whatever was being described.
I think what the author was trying to do was not describe anything using any other sense so he could emphasize smell, but all he accomplished was a book that had no imagery whatsoever. I don't even have an image in my head of what the main character looks like, or any of the locations in the story.
The ending was so unbelievably asinine I don't even want to waste my time writing about it.
This was my book club choice for a book that was translated to English. I borrowed the book from a girl in the book club, and if I didn't have to go to the meeting to return it I never would have finished it. What an mind numbingly boring and just plain ridiculous book.

First Sentence: In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages.
Last Sentence: For the first time they had done something out of love.