Tuesday, February 08, 2005

The Wasp Factory: Worst Book Ever

And the prize for worst book ever written goes to "The Wasp Factory" by Iain Banks.

If you can avoid it, do not read this book (I have to read it by the end of the week for my English class *sigh*). The book is not for sale in the United States, probably because the protagonist killed one person out of hate, and two people on a whim, regularly torches rabbits, and all sorts of other grotesque stuff that makes it a "gothic horror novel."
An easy way of summing this book up would be it contains too much information, and by that I mean it describes how the protagonist uses the bathroom, scratches his crotch, how every single relative in his friggin' family tree died, etc. The book is just plain disturbing, and way over the top. Posted by Hello