Why do people read the "childhood abuse" books? I never look at them and think "oh I'd like to read that"

[MamaG]

so why do people read them?

woolworth stocks rows of this salacious stuff eg daddy's lil hooker.eugh.good antidote is
Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s by Andrew Collins

I've read a few of these, but none since I had children. Too upsetting.
Angela's Ashes is one of my favourite books and I don't think it should be included in the mis lit category as it's written with such humour - also, it's a tale of a poor Catholic Irish childhood, not an abusive one.

agree Angela's ashes is sensitive funny illuminating factual account not salacious rubbish.loved AA actually

I don't understand the appeal. I read one of these books once, and that was enough. There's something almost perverted about them, like each one is competing to be more shocking and disturbing than the next. It's like you have to wander about the kind of person who would watch a movie about young girls being sexually abused?