Holy shit The Wasp Factory, more like The Boner Factory

[TVC15]

Gruesome animal cruelty
child on child homicide
antisocial personality disorder

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

[Phoenix Dark]

definitely gonna get it asap

[Candyflip]

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.

[Eric P]

Wasp Factory

[Howard Alan Treesong]

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

[Joe Molotov]

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.

[duckman2000]

Yeah, it's quite brilliant.

[TVC15]

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

[Tucah]

Sounds awesome, will read soon.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

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

[Joe Molotov]

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

[TVC15]

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.

[Eric P]

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.

[chronovore]

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?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

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