The Times (London) Rubbish! Times Literary Supplement A literary equivalent of the nastiest brand of juvenile delinquency. The Scotsman Theres nothing to force you, having been warned, to read it nor do I rmend it. The Independent One of the top 100 novels of the century. The Financial Times Macabre, bizarre, and impossible to put down. Punch The Wasp Factory is a first novel not only of tremendous promise, but also of achievement, a minor masterpiece perhaps. Mail on Sunday A mighty imagination has arrived on the scene. Review Quotes Daily Express Read it if you dare. I havent killed anybody for years, and dont intend to ever again.
Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than Id disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. Book Synopsis The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath. As for being rough around the edges, well, not really, Banks writes beautifully, with the only weak part being Frank's father who I found a bit unexplained.About the Book Powerful, perverse, and engrossing, this controversial novel offers a graphic portrait of a serial killer told in the first-person. Sounds strange don't it? Well, it is and I'm afraid that I can't really tell you much more than I already have without spoiling everything. Oh, and he feeds and prepares the wasp factory. While waiting for Eric, Frank secures his island and tells us the story of his life and why he had to kill three people. He isn't crazy, like his older brother Eric, who's a raving lunatic who has escaped from the asylum and is on his way home - only stopping to set fire to the occasional dog on the way. Frank is a special kid or at least he has been since his accident. The Wasp Factory is about Frank and his life. Mostly the words "first novel" on the cover intrigued me - what could a younger Banks have to say? First novels have a tendency to be either, brilliant if a bit rough around the edges, or utter garbage, in which case the author is seldom heard from again, but that is another story. Banks and finding this book while browsing my brother's bookshelves, made for some hasty rearrangements of my to-read stack. The Wasp Factory is the stunning debut of the British author Iain M Banks.
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