Friday Fiction: The Wasp Factory (Review)

It left me buzzing, but was that the good or bad type of buzz?

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The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

A story of cruelty.

I wanted to read this book because I was curious about whether a writer could take a despicable and evil protagonist and create any sympathy for them. Does this succeed? Only partly. But I didn't actually care about the protagonist, and they weren't the reason I read on. My only sympathy was due to circumstances, and I wouldn't have been bothered in the least by any of the characters in the novel dying. To that extent it can't be a success.