I read the Flowers in the Attic series
Wait, are those considered romances? I thought they were ... something else. Modern wanna-be-gothic novels that were heavy on the smut, maybe?
Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.
Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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."
Atropa - Oct 25, 2005 10:39:33 pm PDT #9337 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Volans - Oct 25, 2005 10:46:13 pm PDT #9338 of 10002
move out and draw fire
They definitely had gothic overtones, which was probably why I could read them. Is there a genre for post-gothic? Neo-gothic? They've got the insular family, the house/family link, the secrets, and the decay and decadence, but the morality is skewed.
I don't know that I'd shelve them with The Monk or The Castle of Otranto, but I can see the connections.
P.M. Marc - Oct 25, 2005 11:15:24 pm PDT #9339 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I thought they were shelved with Horror, back when I was reading them.
They're not in Romance by any stretch, however.
Calli - Oct 26, 2005 4:01:12 am PDT #9340 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Dad had all the Analog, Science Fiction and Science Fact magazines going back to the 50s. So I read a whole lot of SF. I got a bunch of fantasy from the library--the Dark is Rising series, some Xanth books (I went and bought the former a few years ago). I also picked up the occasional early Anne Rice. I don't remember reading YA romance--I just jumped head long into my folks Harlequin collection when I was 12. And then jumped right out again at around 18 when I realized that a heroine had been raped by a man, and yet it was ok because they were in love and engaged to marry by the end of the book. Ugh. It's taken 20 years and a careful reintroduction to Regency romances and Jennifer Cruisie to get me back into the romance genre.
Connie Neil - Oct 26, 2005 4:50:15 am PDT #9341 of 10002
brillig
Mary Stewart--along with Jane Aiken Hodge--rock.
Kathy A - Oct 26, 2005 7:11:06 am PDT #9342 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
One type of novel I used to really like (maybe due to the early exposure to Michener and Roots) was the centuries-long following of a family. My favorite in the subgenre was The Books of Rachel, by Joel Gross.
Aims - Oct 26, 2005 7:11:19 am PDT #9343 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
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Have read damn near everything by VC Andrews. I own the entire Heaven series, and I am proud of it. I wrote my senior thesis on "her". My teacher said it was the best thesis on a non-existant author she had ever read.
Aims - Oct 26, 2005 7:12:18 am PDT #9344 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
ION, I have been completely transformed into Geekdom.
I am reading Ender's Game.
Susan W. - Oct 26, 2005 7:17:25 am PDT #9345 of 10002
The wide universe is the ocean I travel, and the earth is my blue boat home
One type of novel I used to really like (maybe due to the early exposure to Michener and Roots) was the centuries-long following of a family. My favorite in the subgenre was The Books of Rachel, by Joel Gross.
Same here.
I miss those. I kinda want to write them.
Kathy A - Oct 26, 2005 7:26:26 am PDT #9346 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
They really are a great way to cover multiple places and times in history in one book. ...Rachel was fascinating for the Midwestern Catholic girl I am because it was all about the wealthy European Jewish experience (the family business was diamonds) from late medieval era to post-WWII.