I know I'm insanely late to teh party but I had to jump in-

Go Ask Malice, the book about faith's childhood, /heavily/ implies sexual abuse and other forms of abuse, as well as symptoms from that... and puts a whole 'nother spin on why Faith acts how she does / adds to whedon's inability to write anything without shitty rape related stuff cropping up. It's pretty awful. Has anyone else read it?