I think Flowers was very disturbing. For some reason the incest wasn't what got me. The mother's treatment of the kids is what got me. that kind of brutality and inhumanity is something I couldn't ever get out of my mind.

That, and the (memfault) guy they end up living with after escaping the mother. Way squickier than the incest.

Paul. The doctor. Who Cathy seduces but never marries.

I think one of the more disturbing aspects of the sees a girl at a young age, decides she's the one and only, and waits for her to grow up scenario is the feeling that he's influencing her to fulfill his fantasies.

This discussion has finally given me a good excuse to buy the Flowers in the Attic series at a thrift store. Thank you.

I did not like the creepy guy they went to live with at all.

I just had this thought that Flowers in the Attic is like a creepy incest murder version of The Boxcar Children

I just had this thought that Flowers in the Attic is like a creepy incest murder version of The Boxcar Children

HAHAHA! It totally is.

Knives being store on a magnetic strip - handles up or handles down?

Handles down. Scissors are handles up, though, mostly because the handles are bulky. Potato peeler is horizontal on the end.

Knives being store on a agnetic strip - handles up or handles down?

Handles down. (Learned that one the hard way.)

Bad things happen with handles up? The strip is behind my toaster oven, now, and reaching the handles, if they are down, is a little awkward. I thought I had them handles down for a rason but I couldn't remember what the reason was.