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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Dawn: Any luck? Willow: If you define luck as the absence of success--plenty.
'Touched'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Aims - Jul 20, 2004 7:20:39 am PDT #5217 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
erikaj - Jul 20, 2004 8:37:12 am PDT #5218 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
BWAH!!!
Steph L. - Jul 20, 2004 8:38:09 am PDT #5219 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
"Deconstructing Incest and Other Fucked-Up Shit: The V.C. Andrews Bookclub Thread."
Aims - Jul 20, 2004 8:42:03 am PDT #5220 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
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.
Katerina Bee - Jul 20, 2004 8:54:10 am PDT #5221 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
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.
Aims - Jul 20, 2004 9:00:22 am PDT #5222 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
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.
lisah - Jul 20, 2004 9:06:28 am PDT #5223 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate
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.
libkitty - Jul 20, 2004 9:29:55 am PDT #5224 of 10002
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
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.
Calli - Jul 20, 2004 9:31:38 am PDT #5225 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
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.
Alicia K - Jul 20, 2004 10:11:42 am PDT #5226 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
I recently reread (well, re-skimmed) the FitA series, the Heaven series and My Sweet Audrina. Wow, they're awful in such a fun way. Fun if you're skimming, anyway. Audrina is far and away the best of the lot.
I remember paying to go see the movie when it came out. I remember thinking the actor who played Chris was pretty cute, but that the rest of it was awful.