I first read this book in my late teens and absolutely adored it. I loved the setting, the themes and escalating tension that Banks had so seamlessly created. Back then it was everything I wanted from a book and more. After a ten year gap, I decided to revisit the novel and found it to be, for la...
The Basics This book follows the narration of Frank, a young man living on an island, who… has some issues. Through the course of the book, coming in at a very short 184 pages, we learn about those issues and about Frank’s arguably more disturbed older brother, Eric. Eric has recently escaped from...
Question: Are violence and cruelty innate to human nature – or is man inherently civilised?This is the question posed by that most controversial and loved/ hated novel, The Lord of the Flies. The same question is posed in this book too. However, whereas the canvas was a huge one there, in The Wasp...
This is an unabridged version, 85MB, running for 5.2 hours.SCREEN INTERPRETATION OF A NOVEL BY IAN BANKS CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS: http://cloudkukuland.com/31871/320559/design-projects/the-wasp-factory- If Eric calls, grab your dog and run!BLURB - Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his fat...
He visto que algunas personas usan mucho "violencia gratuita" para hablar de libros de este tipo. No creo que sea el caso, especialmente porque la construcción de los personajes es buena y permite ver un poco mas alla y especular sobre los comos y porqués de lo que esta ocurriendo. En ese aspecto cr...
Frank is a 17 year-old boy living with his eccentric hippie father on an island in Scotland. He killed his cousin Blythe when he was 8, his younger brother Paul when he was 9 and then his young cousin Esmerelda when he was 10. He isn’t planning on killing anyone else because, “this was just a stag...
It would do this book a great injustice to say that one of my favourite parts (of my edition, anyway) is the selection of reviewers' comments in the opening pages - especially the negative ones! They are hilarious, and are followed up by a highly enjoyable, if controversial, story. Yes, it is a chal...
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