false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182459810m/1279660.jpg 567678 24 Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least:<P>Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim.<P>That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again.<P>It was just a stage I was going through.<P> 3205295 book 1984 The Wasp Factory: A Novel total:2739|5:751|4:1034|3:646|2:204|1:104| 2739 10341 3884 343 567678 0684853159 9780684853154 2322 285 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256140362m/567678.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567678.The_Wasp_Factory_A_Novel 4 9 false Fri Jul 13 19:11:10 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 19:21:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 567678 0684853159 9780684853154 2322 285 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256140362m/567678.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567678.The_Wasp_Factory_A_Novel 1 7 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 07:54:38 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 07:54:38 -0700 2007 Sure there's a twist of sorts somewhere...more...]]> 567678 0684853159 9780684853154 2322 285 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256140362m/567678.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567678.The_Wasp_Factory_A_Novel 1 7 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 14 20:44:50 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 06 16:03:34 -0800 2008
I read the news ev...more...]]> 567678 0684853159 9780684853154 2322 285 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256140362m/567678.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567678.The_Wasp_Factory_A_Novel 4 4 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Wed Jan 02 17:53:20 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 18:18:38 -0800 2008
It's about a brutal sixteen year old boy named Frank...more...]]> 827610 0349101779 9780349101774 160 22 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178732396m/827610.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827610.The_Wasp_Factory 1 4 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 09:31:04 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 09:46:45 -0700 2007 could find this a pleasureable read. I couldn't get mu...more...]]> 567678 0684853159 9780684853154 2322 285 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256140362m/567678.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567678.The_Wasp_Factory_A_Novel 4 5 false Sat Jul 28 18:44:53 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 08 15:36:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 567678 0684853159 9780684853154 2322 285 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256140362m/567678.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567678.The_Wasp_Factory_A_Novel 1 3 false Thu Aug 09 09:20:25 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 24 21:17:47 -0800 2007 567678 0684853159 9780684853154 2322 285 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256140362m/567678.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567678.The_Wasp_Factory_A_Novel 3 5 false Sun Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 07:21:24 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 10:31:11 -0700 2008 The Wasp Factory, Bank's clever and unwinding thesis on nature versus nurture, is often accused of sensationalism through shock. While one might consider the events and actions of the characters disturbing (despite their spartan descriptions), the author's attempt to mirror the brutality of the rea...more...]]> 567678 0684853159 9780684853154 2322 285 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256140362m/567678.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567678.The_Wasp_Factory_A_Novel 4 2 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 11:30:33 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 11:57:48 -0700 2007 more...]]> 567678 0684853159 9780684853154 2322 285 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256140362m/567678.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567678.The_Wasp_Factory_A_Novel 1 2 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 30 14:17:41 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 30 14:19:38 -0800 2007
It also includes gory details of the torture and killing of animals and people, which I'm just not into. If you are a fan of gory macabre...more...]]> 827610 0349101779 9780349101774 160 22 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178732396m/827610.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827610.The_Wasp_Factory 3 1 false Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jul 06 15:01:00 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 07 16:39:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 230066 0708825362 9780708825365 109 16 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187729646m/230066.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230066.Wasp_Factory 4 1 false Tue Mar 18 20:13:37 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 08:44:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 567678 0684853159 9780684853154 2322 285 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256140362m/567678.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567678.The_Wasp_Factory_A_Novel 4 1 false Sun Mar 16 20:18:05 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 06:13:25 -0700 2008
Using bizarre reli...more...]]> 567678 0684853159 9780684853154 2322 285 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256140362m/567678.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567678.The_Wasp_Factory_A_Novel 5 1 false Sun Aug 12 21:08:57 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 21:15:35 -0700 2007
It gets far stranger after that. The writi...more...]]> 827610 0349101779 9780349101774 160 22 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178732396m/827610.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827610.The_Wasp_Factory 4 1 false Wed Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 08:40:54 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 10:28:09 -0700 2008
With all the warnings on the cover you'd think it was a macabre roller...more...]]> 827610 0349101779 9780349101774 160 22 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178732396m/827610.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827610.The_Wasp_Factory 4 1 false Thu Oct 11 23:35:40 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 03:23:30 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 11 23:31:50 -0700 2007
My first brush with Iain Banks, whom I previously only knew of as a sci-fi writer, which was the actual reason I never tried one of his books before. I'm just not that into science fiction.

Guess I cou...more...]]> 567678 0684853159 9780684853154 2322 285 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256140362m/567678.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567678.The_Wasp_Factory_A_Novel 1 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 10:42:20 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 10:47:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 567678 0684853159 9780684853154 2322 285 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256140362m/567678.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567678.The_Wasp_Factory_A_Novel 2 0 false Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 01:40:52 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 01:42:45 -0800 2009
And astonishingly, no, I’m not giving anything away there.

As debut novels go, perhaps it’s not written so badly. Certainly I’ve read worse — far worse — but s...more...]]> 567678 0684853159 9780684853154 2322 285 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256140362m/567678.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567678.The_Wasp_Factory_A_Novel 3 0 false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 04:00:50 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 04:44:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 567678 0684853159 9780684853154 2322 285 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256140362m/567678.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567678.The_Wasp_Factory_A_Novel 3 1 false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 16:15:33 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 16:23:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1279660