Nauseating is indeed the term. I kind of wonder how engaged Faber is with SF, because its clearly an SF novel, but kind of one you'd expect from a literary writer, maybe? Theres both a lack of the orienting genre touchstones, which could be done on purpose, but theres also a kind of stretched out di...
Haunting, creepy, full of body horror for humans and aliens alike. As a reader I identified with Isserley but on the level of the parallel ways that humans treat animals/the earth/each other. An alien capitalist invasion story/tragedy, if you will.
Isserley would drive around to pick up hitchhikers. She wouldn’t pick them up on her first drive past them; she’d checked them out first and would drive by 2-3 times just to ascertain her perceptions of their persons. It would have to be a well-built male and one who is alone…A mysterious piece of...
This is one of those books ‘once read, never forgotten’, true to its title it really does get under the skin. Under the Skin hooks you in from the first sentence: “Isserley always drove straight past a hitch-hiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up. She was looking for big m...
I enjoyed this even more than [b:The Crimson Petal and the White|40200|The Crimson Petal and the White|Michel Faber|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kcbzWNfEL._SL75_.jpg|1210026] which I quite liked.
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