/lit/ - Literature

Why did Banks start off with a story like this?

>>22428160
No, but pic related is a trans of some type.

What are some times when an author quoted you, word for word or almost word for word?

For me it was in this book, written a decade and a half before I was born
>My green cord trousers came next, followed by my fawn Kickers boots,
>'labels removed as from everything I wear because I refuse to be a walking advertisement for anybody.'

I seriously thought this book was going to be about a factory that built robotic wasps to terrorize people.

Name a work of fiction you're pretty sure only a few people here have read. I'll go first:

The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks