/lit/ - Literature

this is the first time i even hear about the guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sotos

from the looks of it, he would seem like he's using the excuse of shock art to publish borderline illegal stuff.

but i'm sort of a narrowminded person.

An author stereotypically apropos for western chan culture.

His music's OK.

He probably found his more controversial writing advantageous as a means of getting some name recognition. In the Darwinian world of the arts that's not something to be discounted as a method. However, while there's a make use of it theme to his work, it does not also make for an endorsement of shock and sleaze. Such endorsements are to be found elsewhere, from others, being all part of the point Sotos is hammering down. His is a sadean trip through a cartoonish funhouse made more of mirrors than distortion.

Looked on as another mirroring commentary, Thomas Harris does the same thing in the Hannibal series. Harris is far more nasty though, for being so more subtle about it.

Anyway, you're not likely to get more than nudge-nudge, wink-wink, "undergroundz under da radar lawlz dude!" responses to such requests here. Especially so in light of 8chan's overall rep.

>>6323

>from the looks of it, he would seem like he's using the excuse of shock art to publish borderline illegal stuff.

So your take is the he actually likes it?

>>6328

no, i cannot judge before actually reading his stuff.

but i really don't see how writing that kind of stuff is a take on media hypocrisy or whatever it was written on the wikipedia article.

it sounds like the kind of things shock artists use to justify their nothingness…

but again i cannot judge before having read his stuff.

if you want an EXCELLENT satire of pedophilia and such stuff read Lolita.

>>6336

>if you want an EXCELLENT satire of pedophilia and such stuff read Lolita.

I did.

But I see where you're going with this.

Though, I can't really say much for this guy either since his books range from $55 -200-500.

>>6325

>His music's OK

Are you talking about his contribution to Whitehouse or his spokenword/Field recordings from Proxy or Buyer's Market.

Supposedly there's one called Waitress but as far as I know its just a book.

>>6320

Start with Pure then listen to Whitehouse 24/7 for evective NLP mind control

Just read the PURE issues.

>>6323

>he would seem like he's using the excuse of shock art to publish borderline illegal stuff.

Ah no. He is not using the excuse of shock art to publish borderline illegal stuff. He has published illegal stuff and is not into shock art. He actually likes it an he is into it.

>>6325

>Thomas Harris does the same thing in the Hannibal series

WTF are you talking about? You clearly have never read anything by Soto's. You're actually saying that Lecter, bestselling thriller and oscar winning movie is somewhat similar to Soto's work… pfft

Bumping this thread to let you all know I dumped his early works and then some at >>>/pdfs/3744

>>6320

>I want to start off with the rawest one hes got and then work my way up to the more tame books

Then I recommend just reading his stuff in chronological order. Although imo Special is his most sadistic. Comfort & Critique or Predicate is probably his softest. I'm currently in the middle of Show Adult.

>>6328

>So your take is the he actually likes it?

He makes it clear in the beginning of Pure and an interview he did which showed up in Apocalypse Culture that he loves it.