![]() ![]() The Wasp Factory is solid violence, nastiness, sociopathic tendencies, animal abuse, and cold blooded murder. It’s easy to read, the vocabulary isn’t difficult, and I have no complaints on the pacing. ![]() ![]() Yup, this is definitely a Banks novel!Īt less than two hundred pages, you’d think this book would be a fast read. He throws you in the deep end on page one, leaves you on your own to figure out the local slang terms, populates the book with characters who are as confident in their actions as they are secretive about their motives, and then flips everything inside out for the climactic reveal. The Wasp Factory may not be science fiction (or anything even approaching a Culture novel), but oh is it so very Iain Banks. Without that middle initial, you’re holding a contemporary fiction novel in your hands. Banks then? Some Culture novels? The “.M” means you’re reading his science fiction. ![]()
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