08.06.07
It’s something gone mad, not sure what
I’m not sure what disturbed me the most about seeing this in WH Smiths at lunchtime.
It might’ve been the fact that it appears to be a non-fiction genre well-established enough to have its own shelf. It might’ve been that this implies there’s a pretty healthy market for ‘Christ what a shit life I’ve had; come, read about it in detail’ literature, or at least that Smiths think there is. It could’ve been that the Tragic Life Stories section was larger than the Popular Science section, or it may well have been the tag line “Not loved enough by her mother. Loved too much by her father”.
But I think mostly it was that I had the compulsion to take a photo and then blog it. I’ll be writing letters to the Leicester Mercury next.
David Duff said,
August 7, 2007 at 8:02 am
Perhaps that’s why I failed to spot Rachel’s book in Waterstones. I must have been looking in the wrong section.
kryptothesuperdog said,
August 7, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Isn’t it weird? Maybe it’ll start a trend for adding appropriate adjectives onto the beginning of genre areas. ‘Overlong biographies’, ‘Dodgy self-help’, etc.
Ben said,
August 7, 2007 at 5:17 pm
*whiles away the time thinking of appropriate adjectives for books by Gillian McKeith*