06-15-2011, 10:18 AM
They litter the shelves of supermarkets and the bargain bins of second hand bookshops, with titles like "Please Daddy No!" and "Run, Mummy, Run", but what entertainment or knowledge do they provide? Why read a three hundred page journalistic account of child abuse at its most ugly?
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe