Not even Sade or Bataille - where salacious approach feelz civilized compared to the violent honesty of Sotos' subject matter. As an exercise of mining your psyche, it's hard to think of books that'll warp you the way this collection might. My first foray into Sotos' writing after having listening to Whitehouse. There is much to be discussed here, if ever you find someone with the gall and morbi Not for the faint of heart or mind, to put it mildly.ĭisturbing and vile. Not for the faint of heart or mind, to put it mildly. Still, no way I can give something this depraved more than 1 star.more Those who seek to overcome trauma by poking at it with a rusty knife and getting inside the heads of the demons themselves will find a valuable "anatomy of hell," and it's a potent work of 90s hauntology for those who remember names like JonBenet Ramsey and Adam Walsh. Anyone who takes pleasure in it can sod off. I don't recommend it to any casual reader. No book has ever drained and disturbed me like this one none after this ever will. I feel like I've read the darkest diaries of the sweaty, bald guy with bifocals and a mustache who stared too long when I'd play with the other kids in the street. Wade, because I wanted to understand the minds of child abusers and in turn the minds of those who abused me as a child. I don't recommend it to any I read this book in the summer of 2022, the summer of the Uvalde massacre and the overturning of Roe v. I read this book in the summer of 2022, the summer of the Uvalde massacre and the overturning of Roe v. NOT FOR KIDS, THE WEAK-MINDED, OR YOUR MOM. It's a train wreck for sure, but one painted by a realist master. They terrorize, pick and tear at the psyche, revel in the abject horror of the worst realities of the human condition. It's true, Sotos' greatest crime is verisimilitude, and therefore the words in this book accomplish what many authors can never do. The first three 'sections' are the part I own, apparently now out of print. Please I'm not rating this book because it's simply impossible. I'm not rating this book because it's simply impossible.
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