A review by charnster
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

Did not finish book. Stopped at 65%.

This book was a living form of “flight of ideas”. Set up to character development from the start was poor, story telling was confusing and unexplained, in the sense that things were happening because the character just went and did them but the reader isn’t told why. Read about half the book and still nothing had happened besides the main character doing some weird/torturous/random things. I’m not one to stop reading a book, but this wasn’t worth what time I did put into it. Picked this book because I like horror and had seen it recommended as “one of the greatest horror books”, far from! Writing things that are f***ed up just to write them, doesn’t make it a good horror. The character felt nothing so therefore, you feel nothing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty