No Ron, as I said above, this bothers me as well.
Honestly, really, this-time-I-mean-it my last on this topic.
Brian
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Ron Clinton <clinton65@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> > That reminds me: far and away the most disturbing book I've ever read
> about child
> > abduction/abuse is Sabine Dardenne's I CHOOSE TO LIVE. This was written
> by
> a
> > Belgian girl who was abducted from her bicycle on her way to school. She
> was held
> > in a bunker under an abandoned house for months and used as a sex slave.
> Two
> > other little girls held by the same sociopath died of starvation when he
> left them for
> > a two week vacation. Dardenne's survival is a testament to her extreme
> courage
> > and intelligence.
> > Patrick King
>
> The last line may be true and give an otherwise exploitative and prurient
> work inherent value, but I simply would not be able to read that type of
> book. As a reader of genre fiction that is definitely not of the cozy
> variety -- horror, suspense, noir, hardboiled, etc. -- I read a lot of
> rough
> and tough stuff. But kids and abuse and torture...that's the one place I
> can't go.
>
> Anyone else? Or am I just overly sensitive in this regard?
>
> Ron C.
>
>
>
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