Perfume by Patrick Suskind (1995)

My book club chose this book and no one was able to finish it. We all agreed that the idea for the story, great, the descriptions of the era, EXCELLENT and even at times facinating. Rich in a detail that gives you a great understanding of what it would be like to live in another time. No one can quite put their finger on what was so difficult to get through the book. The one person who was 50 pages from finishing plans to finish it but commented that it was really getting good at the end... For me, a few of the lesser characters were given too much background and I started skimming the book for "good parts." I would sometimes get a feeling of blah...blah...blah...