![]() ![]() This book has a convincing premise and background characters that are worse than our protagonist. This book is well written but it’s subject matter is anything but for well minds. This boy is a symbol for people who are suffering from life’s meaninglessness, but his actions are symbol of a mind who is in so much agony that he cannot do anything but pass on that agony to others. That has a lot of impact on my young psyche. Those were good books, but this one, where a boy is not desensitized but rather so isolated that he has lost his morals. I can’t relate to a psychopathic nepotistic boy who looks perfect, neither do I care about a man who dislikes capitalism. I mean I am quite desensitised to gore and all but here the protagonist is a teenager. I don’t have words for why this book has impacted me so much. I mean I am only fifteen and have read American Psycho, The Fight Club, Trainspotting, etc, but this book is the one that has made the most impact on me. I’ve read Iain Bank’s other writings, first being The Crow Road but this book is the one that has always weirded me out by it’s cover. Unlike American Psycho, where we see mental isolation, this book is about physical isolation and how it has affected the boy, his brother, and his dad. The Wasp Factory is Iain’s bank expertly written masterwork about a boy isolated from the rest of the world. ![]()
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