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|name=lhine
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|comment= Years since I read this but it sounds right. I remember it as brilliant black humour, not your average read but if you are not easily offended you will enjoy it.
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|name=Jacquie Longden
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|comment= I also read it as a teenager in the 80's and actually bought it again and re read it about 2 years ago as I remembered it as such a good read.
Agree with the reviewer - but the brilliant thing the Wasp Factory did for me, was set me up with an appetite to read other of Iain Banks' books - which I thoroughly enjoyed too!