This is a wonderful look into the mind of our protagonist, Frank, whose mind has been both tampered with by both nurture and nature. Told in first person, we follow a boy around the age of 17 who seems to have a type of schizophrenia. He finds meaning is strange objects. He thinks he can predict the feature by certain repetition of acts in a obsessive compulsive way. One of these compulsions is putting live wasps in self-built murder "factory." The book reads like an insane Holden Caulfield, coincidentally also 17 years of age, from The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger, 1951.)
The novel, while only 150 pages, reads a little too long for my tastes with the excessive descriptions of outside environment. I think this is because i'm more interested in knowing the thoughts of the main character. That is just a small hang-up in an amazing story.
4/5
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