The Wasp Factory

by Iain Banks | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 1476750246 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingsota48wing of Hokksund, Buskerud fylke Norway on 8/5/2016
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Journal Entry 1 by wingsota48wing from Hokksund, Buskerud fylke Norway on Friday, August 5, 2016
"Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different 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. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.'

Enter - if you can bear it - the extraordinary private world of Frank, just sixteen, and unconventional, to say the least."

This book is donated to BookCrossing by my nephew.

Released 6 yrs ago (4/21/2017 UTC) at Bookcrossing Convention Oslo 2017 in St. Hanshaugen bydel, Oslo fylke Norway

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For the book buffet at the Convention in Oslo 2017.

Journal Entry 3 by wingApoloniaXwing at Oslo Sentrum, Oslo fylke Norway on Saturday, April 22, 2017
One of those books I've been wanting to read for ages, but never got around to...

Journal Entry 4 by wingApoloniaXwing at Lalitpur, Bagmati (incl. Kathmandu Valley) Nepal on Friday, May 26, 2017
What a bizarre novel. And full of violence. Somehow I found the descriptions of violence against animals harder to read (and skipped parts of them) than the murders of the three kids – maybe because those were depicted in an even more detached tone. What it all comes down to - spoiler alert!!! stop reading here if you haven’t read the book yet! - what is gender, what is identity. So what Banks says is that a few lies and testosterone is enough to change gender? That one can determine or change it so easily? The experiences of so many transgender people, born with ambiguous genitals and “made” either male or female by doctors who couldn’t stand this, have proofed Banks’ underlying assumption wrong. It’s an interesting novel with an unexpected twist at the end, but I disagree with him here. (Or is it just a product of the 80s...?)

Released 6 yrs ago (6/29/2017 UTC) at Starbucks on Lang Suan Road in Bangkok, (Bangkok) Krung Thep Mahanakhon Thailand

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Released at Starbucks Lang Suan Road, which doesn't seem to be an OBCZ anymore.

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