This takes place on an island in Scotland, with a wild cast of characters. The beginning was quite compelling, and I could tell early on that I would like the author's style. His prose and imagery is beautifully horrific. Frank's perspective is fascinating. He spends his days performing a sort of ...
Well-written, engaging prose, great for analysis, but on the whole too disgusting for academic purposes. The book read was second-hand, and somebody covered the first two pages with comprehensive notes explaining everything there is to explain about the book (spoilers galore), but it didn't ruin my ...
So, er, this book happened. I'm having a lot of trouble responding to it, honestly. I almost don't want to three star it, because I'm just not sure "liked" is the appropriate word for it. It was well-done, for what it was. What it was was dark as hell, though. Seriously, horrifically dark as hell....
✭✭ 2 StarsThis was a very difficult book for me to rate so I rated it purely based on 'personal enjoyment'.Yes the book was dark and clever and so well written but the enjoyment factor just wasn't there for me. Something I can not handle to read about is the abusing, torturing and killing of animals...
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks is a messed up, twisted little horror of a book. Delightfully so. This brisk tale takes us into the world of Frank Cauldhame, a sixteen year old Scottish boy who might be described as troubled, if gross understatement is your thing. Told from his perspective, Frank l...
My first reaction after finishing The Wasp Factory was to gently set the book down, walk away, and ask aloud, "What the hell did I just read?" For the strength of that reaction alone I'm glad I gave this book a spin. It's now been a day, and though I'm still not entirely certain what I think of this...
Prior to reading the Wasp Factory I only read Bank's science fiction. This book fits in nicely with that work and is of a similar quality. This book is transgressive fiction with a deeply disturbed teenage boy as the narrator. The book combines elements of the gothic novel with, a realistic moder...
Children can be bad when the parent is a loopy themselves. This is one of those stories with such possibilities.Frances was a normal kid, maybe. With three murders under his belt and his older brother in the looney house after setting neighborhood dogs on fire. Frances is not even a teenager yet and...
Wow. Books that make you challenge your assumptions can often be hard hitting, but a book that leads you to challenge all the assumptions you built up while reading, in the final chapter? This blew my mind.
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