Please Daddy No! - not picking a fight but has anyone read it - and why did you choose it?

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Anyone?

Seen it in tesco the other day and thought 'gawd that doesn't sound like a good book'
So i prob won't be reading it.

The title makes me wince and duck - there are so many of them. I like reading and can't imagine how you could find a book like that entertaining. Wierd.

There's loads of these books about at the moment. Can anyone tell me why? There must be a market for them!

Yuk. Agree with Boco. Horrible title.

won't touch it with a barge pole - I read for pleasure, not self punishment. I can't even look at the cover

My mother reads all off them

I don't think it is wierd to want to read a book like that. Although personally I do not have the stomach for it

I wouldn't want to read a book like this either. I think it would just make me feel physically ill and upset, but everyone is different I guess.

Although I don't know anyone who has read this particular book, I do know a couple of people who read these sorts of books because they have had traumatic childhood experiences and want help making sense of what happened to them, which I can understand.

maybe you should all read just one

traumatic things did happen to me as a kid - though nothing to do with family - and ther ewas a time when a book like this might have helped. however, some people read stuff like this for the same reason they are over-interested in certain news stories, iykwim? i am not saying they are wrong or are sick in any way whatsoever, just not for me!

i would not read one but hey

That sort of book isn't for me, too voyeuristic. I can see that those with similar issues may well want to read them, though.

For the title and cover picture alone this is not a book I would ever read. Have only read a couple of these "tragedy" biographical books and that was enough.

As mentioned by someone else on another thread there is an entire section in WH Smith for these books now. Couldn't believe it when I saw it in my nearest store so there must be a sizable amount of readership for these books.

I find the idea of wanting to read a book with that title profoundly disturbing. This whole misery genre does my head in, quite frankly.

I have avoided reading the thread incase it's disturbing,saw this book in smiths today whilst queing at the till,I had to avert my gaze,the title itself is disturbing

I blame the one who wrote that...

oh crap better not post that or they'll threaten to sue MN too ha ha ha