Has anyone read Home yet? I just finished it and I've got to admit that I'm not nearly as captivated by Sotos as I once was. I want to continue to pick up and comb through what earlier material of his I don't have, but I was not too impressed with Mine and Home was not very captivating. I suppose I'm just losing interest in his very fractured and disjointed skein of biopic, true crime and autobiography.
I suppose Home deals primarily with the abduction of Shasta Groene; abduction/murder of Dylan Groene, but Sotos' erratic style stabs at so much and connects with so little.
Probably what resonated most with me from this are the little stitches of commentary concerning a maniacal negro slitting the throat of a white child in the bathroom of a hotel room. He writes, "Don't let him have fucked that kid. Just put his nigger mouth on the boy. Did something worse. He wouldn't have been so identifiably insane, Dad, we can't find a single fucking reason that it makes sense. That kid isn't on this planet anymore because the shaking nigger's a maniac, that's all. You have no right to be indignant. Just sad about how really unfair and worthless everything is now." I really love how Sotos cuts through all of the sentimental bullshit and the public's pathetic clamoring for some greater meaning in a tragedy whose victims are not at all special or precious, and tells the families of the victims who sell themselves to the media and public circuit that they are not special or precious just because their children were selected by almost no special criteria.
Beyond that, though, I didn't take much away from reading Home.
Thanks to Brett for the notice because I totally would have missed out on this.
