It's hard to know what to say about this book. In some areas it's the work of genius and definitely a promising debut novel for Mr Banks, but in other areas it's full of the typical cliches and grammatical errors that you would expect from a new-comer into the work of book-writing. Some of the conversations between the protaganist Frank and his brother Eric on the phone are very wooden as though they were written by someone in school. I should know because I used to think adding as many 'doing' actions as possible to a short conversation in a story I wrote at school was a way of better writing, but it's not ( i.e. 'he said angrily', 'then he said manically' 'then he said crazily feeling very angry' etc'). However there are some paragraphs that are brilliantly written and although very gruesome, the definitions of Frank killing insects and particularly baby rabbits are excellently drawn. A book that needs to be read, if not purely for the hype, but I'm not sure if I would read any more of his work.
Started 12th December
Finished 15th December
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