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A review by shella688
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
4.0
I really wish I hadn't read the final chapter and a half or so of this book because it is such a letdown compared to the rest of it
The Wasp Factory is dark and gruesome and not an easy read because of it - but it's also darkly funny at times too, the writing is immensely compelling, and the main character (and also narrator) is very well done too, you can almost find yourself agreeing with what he explains until you remember how unreliable he is and just what, exactly, he is describing.
It's about perpetuating violence, and gender roles, and belief and religion, and it would have all been excellent were it not for the ending that was both lazily executed and just plain bad. Like, bad enough to genuinely annoy me bad.
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The Wasp Factory is dark and gruesome and not an easy read because of it - but it's also darkly funny at times too, the writing is immensely compelling, and the main character (and also narrator) is very well done too, you can almost find yourself agreeing with what he explains until you remember how unreliable he is and just what, exactly, he is describing.
It's about perpetuating violence, and gender roles, and belief and religion, and it would have all been excellent were it not for the ending that was both lazily executed and just plain bad. Like, bad enough to genuinely annoy me bad.
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It was over two years after I had subtracted Blyth with an adder that I found an opportunity to get rid of Paul.