UPDATE! 
 This is a very unusul situation for me, but this is a very unusual book. I'm actually looking extremely forward to seeing the movie. The director Jonathan Glazer doesn't do many movies but he did do Sexy Beast which is a must-see, and he did do this amazing advert : 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ut_2... 
 So bring it on! 
 And now, the original book review. 
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 Things I love about Under the Skin 
 - the heroine is really creepy 
 - the whole situation is really mental (that's a literary term coined by F R Leavis in his seminal 1938 essay "Ezra Pound : Fucking Mental") 
 - you only find out bit by bit and it gets weirder until you just can't stand it 
 - it didn't put me off hitchhiking because I'd already served my time as a dedicated hitchhiker, I've got a car now, and anyway the heroine was looking for the beefy type which I could never be mistaken as, even in the mysterious Scottish gloaming, even if you were wearing sunglasses and you had a heavy head cold in the mysterious Scottish gloaming 
 - Michel Faber wrote the Crimson Petal and the White which is my favourite 1000-page gonzo Modern Victorian skankfest and which is in a completely different style to this one and it never seems like he's dressing up in front of the mirror 
 - it's a book where i can say here, cop yer whack for this flamboyant grotesquerie, it'll make you gag but you'll be a better person for it 
 - it's suitable for vegetarians