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Post by bookaddict on Dec 2, 2006 9:28:28 GMT -5
I will keep on reading lol. I'm getting excited for more action to start. The last few chapters have me really bored.
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Dec 2, 2006 13:16:17 GMT -5
Chapters 31-35
I found the beginning of this part really interesting. At first, G pretends to be allergic in some way to the violet scent that TE uses and so he gets to make his own perfume. I say it's interesting because, although G has this intense hatred towards human beings, he really aspires to smell like them and fit in so that he won't be recognized as anything abnormal. In this sense he's a bit hypocritical because of his want to fit in among a group he can't stand.
When G wears the human scented perfume, he tries to act like a gentleman and to me he seems to fit in pretty well. At this point I almost like him, but then, "his mood was not euphoric as he formed his plans to rule humankind..he asked himself why he wanted to do it all. And he said to himself that he wanted to do it because he was evil, thoroughly evil." I mean, he seemed normal for a while, until he reminded me that even he thought he was evil. That's one thing I never understood with people doing evil things when they knew it was evil. I guess they just have no moral issues at all with what affects others.
Again, the exploiter of G perishes after he takes his leave. TE wanted pure air and went to a mountaintop and was never seen again. This perpetuates the cycle. It seems that the people who were mean towards G get a bad karma thing, but G is more evil than they can even conceive and yet nothing happens to him. Why does Sueskind do this, I wonder?
Then, once in Grass, G finds the scent of the girl he killed in Paris. Yet he controlled his urges to kill her and bask in her scent until he could preserve the scent. "He had to throw himself into his work. He had to broaden his knowledge and perfect the techniques of his craft in order to be equipped for the time of harvest." I didn't particularly like how G described harvesting the girl instead of just killing her. Harvest implies that one will take something good away from the death of something else, like when you harvest wheat it's good, but it kills it. I do not see killing the girl any good aside from what he believes is good. G just has a really odd mindset about death, because he sees nothing wrong with it. And that is what makes him so freaky to me.
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Post by Dominique on Dec 4, 2006 2:35:18 GMT -5
lol the druot character has the same first name as me. How weird.
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Post by Dominique on Dec 4, 2006 5:11:11 GMT -5
I finished the whole book today, I won't ruin it for anyone but it definately picks up towards the end.
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Post by Bina on Dec 4, 2006 15:36:13 GMT -5
Yup, there´s definitely action  Seeing it was really gross! |
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Novel turned into BBC miniseries
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Post by Kristie on Dec 4, 2006 18:52:40 GMT -5
o yeah! i forgot this was a movie. whoa, that scene must be like WAY awkward to watch. do not take your parents to see it! unless you don't feel awkward about perverse human nature...
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Post by Dominique on Dec 5, 2006 6:23:26 GMT -5
it hasn't come out here yet, but I'm interested in seeing how well they pull it off. It sounds like it would be kinda laughable to watch on the big screen.
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
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Post by Kristie on Dec 5, 2006 11:29:09 GMT -5
its not out here yet either but i wanna see it when it does
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Post by Bina on Dec 5, 2006 14:15:52 GMT -5
It´s a good movie but some scenes are so disgusting it´s hard to look away. Definitely don´t watch it with your parents that would be so awkward. Finally a film we get to see first Usually they take their time synchronizing and thinking up long and weird subtitles. They changes you, me and Dupree to you, me and the other (guy). Like Germans couldn´t pronunce Dupree. It´s even worse with tv shows. |
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Novel turned into BBC miniseries
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Post by Kristie on Dec 5, 2006 15:41:29 GMT -5
haha that sucks
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Post by Dominique on Dec 5, 2006 17:43:20 GMT -5
lol that's such a funny translation
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Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
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Post by neh on Dec 5, 2006 23:37:19 GMT -5
For those still waiting for the movie to hit their counrty, you can actually see moments of the book/film's climax featured in it's theatrical trailer... and for those who are really curious, you can go and sign up at the IMDB site and look into the forums.
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Dec 6, 2006 18:14:11 GMT -5
i love IMDB...already a member but i rarely use it
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Post by bookaddict on Dec 8, 2006 15:57:30 GMT -5
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Post by bookaddict on Dec 8, 2006 16:44:04 GMT -5
I'm a little behind, but I will catch up after my monday's final because after that is only an english final. I don't need to study for it.
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Seeing it was really gross!
