Under the Skin

Great movie. Great book. Terrible order to experience them in. The film is a great, mostly silent project that strays so far from the source material you could say they are related in premise only. We learn much more about the main character, named Isserley, her reasons for coming to Earth, and how she sees our species. The premise of an alien seducing hitchhikers in order to feed her people is a genius interweaving of themes on the meat industry, capitalism, gender relations and the media. As with the film, I'm sort of struggling to translate the themes into something more coherent, but I enjoyed this book very much.