It strikes me as odd (i.e. utterly incomprehensible)
that these aliens who have been studying us for a million years would not have infrared cameras or something similar to find us when we hide in our basements...
([sic] You're ad here?, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 14:32, archived)

Yes - can't remember from the book
But that bit seemed utterly ludicrous, and I have no idea why we had to see the aliens in the flesh that early on. They were a much scarier faceless menace, rather than some cute extra from Land of the Dinosaurs VII.
(Sir Ian Blair, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 14:39, archived)