Extremely disturbing. A very powerful story, but the violent cruelty is unsettling, especially if you are an animal lover. Almost a favourite, but not a book I plan to re-read.
This is basically a mystery, and mysteries live or die based on their final acts, and this is a super wack final act.For like the first 90 percent, Banks does a pretty fair job here. He sets up a bunch of intriguing questions: - When and how is the brother coming back?- Why is this kid such a psycho...
Last year around September I had a little accident ... I was innocently washing up, absentmindedly scrubbing out the inside of a stained drinking glass, staring out the kitchen window mildly fretting about my upcoming 10k run in Edinburgh the following month when the glass broke in my hand. I don't ...
Compulsively readable. That’s how I first described this book. The narrator’s voice is strong and keeps the reader riveted even when it becomes abundantly clear that there’s no plot in The Wasp Factory. None whatsoever. That’s why it’s so disappointing that the predictable—not in a bad way—character...
Deeply disturbing, and then at the last minute really really interesting. I'd love to hear some discussions about the gender issues he presents here. I found myself uncertain, in the end, about what exactly it was he was trying to say.
I can understand why some people really liked it but it left me ambivalent and rather glad I read it in full sunshine on a summer's day. Frank Culdhane is a deeply unpleasant teen who runs wild on a scottish island, whose father harbours secrets and brother has just run away from a psychiatric inst...
I've been reading his science fiction and wanted to see what he accomplishes by his traditional fiction. I'm happy to say that I really enjoyed the flow and warp of this disturbing little anti-hero. Its all a perfectly valid little metaphor for the unconscious and an angry disgust at the whole notio...
Just finished re-reading... [new review to follow]First Read (2003): ★★★★★ This was the first Iain M Banks book I read many years ago now, and I fell in love with it. I loved the personal symbology that the boy developed and practiced - that's mostly what sticks in my mind years later. I read ...
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