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Under the Skin

Michel Faber

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I've noticed too that when people recommend books or say what they're reading, it's almost never novels. It's either technical, or memoirs. Here's one novel I just finished rereading that's almost like an anti-Oprah book in that you won't identify with any of the characters, it doesn't build to sweet resolution, it doesn't say great things about the human spirit, yet at the end you feel enobled for having spent time with such a true work of art: Michel Faber's Under the Skin. http://www.amazon.com/Under-Skin-Novel-Michel-Faber/dp/01560... (http://www.amazon.com/Under-Skin-Novel-Michel-Faber/dp/0156011603)