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Vishwas Gupta vishwasg01a516 — Malice Domestic continues to rub shoulders with contemporary globalisation issues as events from the past wreck havoc on the present in this wonderful series from the south of France. While Bruno is helping to secure the area for a high level political meeting serious damage is being done to the local duck industry and a modern corpse is found at an archaeological site. Is there any connection? Favourite characters continue to develop as new ones are introduced – not the least being Hector. While I didn’t encounter many surprises in the solving of the mysteries, the story development is as delightful as the gourmet three-course meal that Bruno brings to the table is delectable. Bon appétit!

德 峻 zhangjun206b09 — I love Brockmann's books, what I classify as 'intelligent romances' that have a plot. Very fast-paced, interesting characters, and a satisfying ending.

Ivonne Bantel ivonnebant030a — Finished reading The Wasp Factory (1984) by Iain Banks this morning on the bus to work. This was Banks first published novel & perhaps his most famous. Banks first came to my attention as Iain M. Banks, a science fiction author. I was favorably impressed by the SF novel The State of the Art (1991) so I thought I’d try his mainstream fiction. Being the person I am, I decided to start at the beginning. The Wasp Factory is one strange book. I can’t say I enjoyed reading it exactly, but I’m glad I did. It’s good to expand one’s literary horizons a bit every now & then. For reasons not entirely clear to me, it reminded me of Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1965) by Yukio Mishima. The Wasp Factory is about Frank Cauldhame a Scottish teenager, his father and his bother Eric. Frank and his father live on a small island somewhere on the coast in Scotland (in the vicinity of Inverness, I think). They form a particularly dysfunctional family, which is not helped by the news that Eric has escaped from a psychiatric hospital and (Frank assumes) is on his way home. The novel is a first person narrative from Frank’s perspective and he is one strange and twisted individual. In some aspects he seems like a character from a Ryu Murakami novel (maybe Piercing (1994) or Coin Locker Babies (1980)). But Banks draws him so well, that he is not only believable, but I could see just enough of myself in him to get completely sucked into the book. Banks is an excellent writer. At one point in the novel I thought I’d figured out something about one of the central characters, but Banks managed to convince me I was wrong, even though it turned out I was right. As one reviewer said, it’s written from Frank’s perspective and it is a deeply unreliable narrative. The Wasp Factory appears on several list of “important” books: “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die”; The BBC’s 100 Most Popular Books (it’s been on Facebook) and it was selected as one of the 100 best books of the 20th Century in a poll of 25,000 UK readers. But it’s controversial. The review blurbs on the cover of the edition I read, range from “Brilliant… irresistible… compelling” to “Rubbish!” The reviewers on GoodReads.com gave it 3.7 stars (of 5), but a lot of the reviews were 4 or 5 stars and many were only 1. I thought it was a fascinating and disturbing read; it’s not for the faint of heart.