@Annie I think it would be impossible not to miss anything in this book. After three reads, I still feel as if I missed plenty.

@devilgate I found the adaptation really disappointing. It covers the first two books, i.e. this one and The Likeness. I felt that it didn’t capture much of their strangeness, their off-kilter quality. The characters seemed no different from those you’d expect to find in any run-of-the-mill police procedural.