Title: Save yourself the agony.
Review: Reading this book ranks as one of the bottom five reading experiences of my life. I had previously read The Crimson Petal and the White, and frankly, found it to be a little more disappointing than other reviewers. I'm sure I've lost plenty of people by saying that, but I thought that maybe it was just a product of a writer looking for but not yet finding his stride. At least the idea was a good one. At least good enough to give Faber another shot. Well, fool me once...etc. Under the Skin was not only filled with weak, half-baked, preposterous storytelling, but it had such a heavy-handed metaphoric agenda that I often had to laugh at the writer's clumsy attempts to equate the aliens with the meat packing industry. I found the book unpleasant and ill-conceived. Faber doesn't get a third try with me.
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