Like Father, Like Son

This book was graphic at times and sick and sad, all at the same time. How a father could do what he did to his son is way beyond me. What they both did to a 10 yr. old girl is beyond even my imagination. It was hard to read this book for me. I am glad that I only have about 10 more pages to go.

This book, is like other reviewers have said, horrifying. It deviates so far from the norm that it shows what happens when human beings have been degraded to the level of ignorant animals. Thomas Soria Sr, is a complete and total monster, who comes from a family of violent criminals. He shows us what happens when a father ignores everything society has taught him and degrades himself to the level of a dumb, immoral animal. The things he did were beyond humane, and so incredibly perverse that I have to claim that he is the worst criminal that I've ever read about, including books like "Cellar Of Horror" which details the exploits of the cannabalistic Gary Heidnik and "Suffer the little children" the story of Jesse Cummings, the polygamist who put his two wives through Hell every single day and ended up raping and murdering his eleven year old niece and his sister. The situation goes beyond ludicrous. It includes sodomy, father-son incest, and Thomas Soria Sr. even goes so far as to eat his son TJ's feces and then force his son to do the same. He eventually goes so far that he kidnaps a 9 year old girl, rapes her and murders her, leaving his son to dispose of the body. I found no sympathy for him, but felt a flicker of pity for his son TJ, whose life has been so far beyond the norm for so long that he didn't know any better. This book is very disturbing, but it's also so incredibly gross that it's difficult to read. All I can say is that it makes me angry that that repulsive bastard was able to cheat justice by committing suicide before he could be executed. I completely agree with the death penalty this time, because this guy is beyond help and needed to be put out of his misery. I don't know what else to say except "buyer beware". This book is very graphic and it will probably make you very angry.

This book was very good, but it was also very disturbing. I personally didn't mind it much, but if you don't like violence and gore, I wouldn't recommend this book to you. However, if you think you can handle it, it is a great book and it would be worth your while to read it.

This story is truly heartbreaking, and if you can't take explicit details, don't read it. Although the book does not linger too long on the actual crimes, it is very explicit. This is a story of a man who sexually abused his son from a very early age. The man had come from a family of psychos -- his mother was brutally raped and murdered by another relative. As a teenager and young man, the son obtained young girls for his father's sexual pleasure, including his own girl friends. This young man, who worked with children in an after school program, had become acquainted with kids in the neighborhood and lured one of their friends into his apartment where the father sexually tortured her and then murdered her. The book tells of the frantic search for the little girl -- to the point where her mother was just a room away but did not know it. The investigative story is very interesting, including the tip by a passer-by that put the investigation into high gear. This story made me cry several times, and it made me sick to my stomach to think that a man could be so cruel to his own son and to innocent children. It will make you afraid to let your kids play outside.