yes!!! Perfume is an absoilutely amazing novel!!! I recently bought several more Suskind novels (have not read them yet) as geting back inside this man's head is something I must do...

Possession is also an amazing read for those who have not (A. S. Byatt)

I missed the "must read" books thread so some of my other choices for what they are worth (modern novels):

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
In the Land of Winter by Richard Grant
The Word for World is Forest by Ursula LeGuin
Children of Light by Robert Stone
The Season of the Witch by James Leo Herlihy

also love the short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Bowen and many modern horror writers...

peg