Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:26 am
I just finished reading the Wasp Factory (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 1?v=glance) an amazing (and terribly disturbing!) novel, told through the eyes of a character named Frank.
'Frank' was led to believe he was castrated at the age of 5,as he puts it "My Little Accident" (although we later find out it was much more complicated than that). Both he (and his brother Eric) are clearly very disturbed, but it gives a strangely sympathetic insight for the reader... by the end you actually feel Frank was relateively 'normal' (all things considered)!
If not I can defenitely recommend it!
it also addresses some rather deep and disturbing aspects of gender. And is the first novel in my life (and I don't read much!) that I sat and read covert to cover in one day.
Just wondering if anyone else has read this one?
~Rog
'Frank' was led to believe he was castrated at the age of 5,as he puts it "My Little Accident" (although we later find out it was much more complicated than that). Both he (and his brother Eric) are clearly very disturbed, but it gives a strangely sympathetic insight for the reader... by the end you actually feel Frank was relateively 'normal' (all things considered)!
If not I can defenitely recommend it!
it also addresses some rather deep and disturbing aspects of gender. And is the first novel in my life (and I don't read much!) that I sat and read covert to cover in one day.Just wondering if anyone else has read this one?
~Rog