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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: TVC15 on August 11, 2008, 10:25:31 PM

Title: Holy shit The Wasp Factory, more like The Boner Factory
Post by: TVC15 on August 11, 2008, 10:25:31 PM

:bow Gruesome animal cruelty :bow2
:bow child on child homicide :bow2
:bow antisocial personality disorder :bow2

Why didn't I read this sooner?  Probably because I thought all of Iain Banks' shit was scifi.

Title: Re: Holy shit The Wasp Factory, more like The Boner Factory
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 11, 2008, 10:26:32 PM

definitely gonna get it asap :bow

Title: Re: Holy shit The Wasp Factory, more like The Boner Factory
Post by: Candyflip on August 11, 2008, 10:37:21 PM

I've seen Iain Banks mentioned a lot here lately and I have had Complicity recommended a few times now too so I'll probably pick up either that or The Wasp Factory soon.  Just not sure which.

Title: Re: Holy shit The Wasp Factory, more like The Boner Factory
Post by: Eric P on August 11, 2008, 10:45:56 PM

Wasp Factory

Title: Re: Holy shit The Wasp Factory, more like The Boner Factory
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 11, 2008, 11:59:29 PM

Wasp Factory is excelllllllent

really, his SF and non-SF are equally good, it just depends on what you're in the mood for. Complicity was awesome but Wasp Factory is a very good starting point

I finished all his SF and was like, huh ... well I guess I'll read his non-SF? (I'd already read three of his non-SF books - just decided to turn his non-SF into a go-to "list") and really it's just as enjoyable

if you like it read Use of Weapons next !!

also, The Bridge is awesome, if you like Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Title: Re: Holy shit The Wasp Factory, more like The Boner Factory
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 12, 2008, 12:47:30 AM

Quote from: Groo on August 11, 2008, 10:54:27 PM

Wasp Factory was the first Banks book I read. Good way to start off :)

Same here. Actually it's the only one I've read, but I'd like to get into to some of his Sci-Fi stuff too.

Title: Re: Holy shit The Wasp Factory, more like The Boner Factory
Post by: duckman2000 on August 12, 2008, 12:48:01 AM

Yeah, it's quite brilliant.

Title: Re: Holy shit The Wasp Factory, more like The Boner Factory
Post by: TVC15 on August 12, 2008, 12:50:26 AM

I wanted to get The Bridge first.  is it by chance out of print?  I couldn't find copies of it anywhere.

Title: Re: Holy shit The Wasp Factory, more like The Boner Factory
Post by: Tucah on August 12, 2008, 12:54:14 AM

Sounds awesome, will read soon.

Title: Re: Holy shit The Wasp Factory, more like The Boner Factory
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 12, 2008, 01:49:05 AM

it is out of print, looks like, but some z shops have it for $2 or thereabouts

Title: Re: Holy shit The Wasp Factory, more like The Boner Factory
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 12, 2008, 01:49:54 AM

I like when he talked about how killing people was just a phase he went through.  :lol

Title: Re: Holy shit The Wasp Factory, more like The Boner Factory
Post by: TVC15 on August 12, 2008, 01:52:37 AM

So far the most erotic moment for me has been the war against the rabbits.  I'm only like 50 pages in.  There's just something about cutting open rabbit anuses and inserting pipe bombs that makes me so, you know, horny.

Title: Re: Holy shit The Wasp Factory, more like The Boner Factory
Post by: Eric P on August 12, 2008, 07:29:23 AM

Quote from: TVC 15 on August 12, 2008, 01:52:37 AM

So far the most erotic moment for me has been the war against the rabbits.  I'm only like 50 pages in.  There's just something about cutting open rabbit anuses and inserting pipe bombs that makes me so, you know, horny.

wait.

don't blow your load yet.

Title: Re: Holy shit The Wasp Factory, more like The Boner Factory
Post by: chronovore on August 12, 2008, 09:04:46 AM

Wasp Factory causing boners is a lovely source of irony.

IIRC anything with by Iain M. Banks is SF, and without the "M." is reg-yoo-lahr fiction. Or was I on crack?

Title: Re: Holy shit The Wasp Factory, more like The Boner Factory
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 12, 2008, 03:14:50 PM

Quote from: chronovore on August 12, 2008, 09:04:46 AM

Wasp Factory causing boners is a lovely source of irony.

IIRC anything with by Iain M. Banks is SF, and without the "M." is reg-yoo-lahr fiction. Or was I on crack?

zat's correct