Jayne ,'The Message'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I started that months ago and couldn't get past the first chapter or so. Might have to give it another go, then.
Ditto and ditto. I wondered why I couldn't remember anything about the book, and then I saw the bookmark I left, a couple of chapters in. Oops.
My book club is discussing Flowers in the Attic this Friday.
SUH-WEET! I want to start an all VC Andrews bookclub.
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BWAH!!!
"Deconstructing Incest and Other Fucked-Up Shit: The V.C. Andrews Bookclub Thread."
Our first book will be My Sweet Audrina.
The only stand alone book VC Andrews did. Also her first (AFAIK) and no incest in it. IMHO, it's her best, quality-wise. The Heaven series is my favorite, but this one's really good.
Loved Flowers in the Attic, the other books, NSM. Somehow the creeping horror of gradually realizing that their mother would never come back for them really got to me. There was a perfectly horrible movie version starring Kristy Swanson. I remember the audience groaning in distress and thinking there must have been a bunch of folks who had read the book attending that particular press screening.
Hated the movie.
There was a musical that some freak company out here did of it. I think ND worked on it or knew someone who worked on it.
There was a musical
Oh that's genius. I'm pretty sure Flowers in the Attic is the only one I've read. And even though it is just terrible, I immediately wanted to read the whole series as soon as I finished it. That feeling has died down a bit though.
I wouldn't read it at night before I went to sleep, the time I usually like to read, because I was afraid it would creep me out too much. But it wasn't as horrific as I had remembered it being.
A friend needs recommendations for romance authors to get for her 17-year-old niece.
Jumping in late to suggest anything by Caroline Courtney. Her books were published in the 80s, and have a string of pearls on the cover. I think that they're all out of print, but you should be able to get used copies. Barnes and Noble lists quite a few of her titles. They are Regency titles, and quite clean. I just loved them then, and still re-read them when I'm sick or depressed and need some brain candy.
I remember reading FitA when I was 13 or so. The incest bit had me going, "Her brother? Huh." The continuation of their relationship further on creeped me out more.