dwanollah
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Post by dwanollah on Jun 20, 2011 10:24:42 GMT -4
Didn't Cleave VanVoreen die at some point in the book? I can't even remember. I do know he and Jillian divorced but for some reason I thought he later died. If he wasn't dead then yeah, why wouldn't Leigh try to go live with him? He seemed to be the only sane character in all of the books. Because he had just remarried. To a lady who WASN'T EVEN BEAUTIFUL! |
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Post by celerydunk on Jun 21, 2011 0:14:38 GMT -4
My mother went on vacation and wasn't sure if she wanted to try the kindle, so I let her take mine. I've got a ton of non-fiction and classic literature. Of course, she finds FITA. I can't believe Kindle betrayed me like that.
I'm thinking of locking it upstairs and feeding it rat poison, but the damn thing would probably just end up having sex with my Ipod.
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Post by Queena on Jun 21, 2011 19:16:19 GMT -4
Didn't Cleave VanVoreen die at some point in the book? I can't even remember. I do know he and Jillian divorced but for some reason I thought he later died. If he wasn't dead then yeah, why wouldn't Leigh try to go live with him? He seemed to be the only sane character in all of the books. Cleave died 2 years BEFORE Heaven came to Farthy. In Web of Dreams, Cleave was a workaholic. Maybe he was too busy working to realize that Leigh was gone? He was out of town when she decided to run away..... that's why she didn't call him. STUPID.....Then Leigh, 8 months pregnant, and still playing with, and talking to a doll? I guess because V.C. was a V, she didn't know that usually, once a girl has sex, she gives up dolls. Then, on top of all of that.....LUKE DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO HAVE SEX WITH HIS PRECIOUS ANGEL! He, not she, didn't want to do it with his parents in the next room. I'm guessing he got Sarah pregnant because he wasn't having sex with Leigh. Poor V.C....it's hard to write about something you have absolutely no experience in....especially something like sex. In her books, around 80% of sex is via rape. Maybe she had rape fantasies. Because only in her book does a girl get raped and all she has to say to her rapist is...I'm very upset with you (DDD...dumb, ditzy, Dawn). In V.C. world, if you like and enjoy sex, you must be a slut or loose. I feel bad for her. Her parents must've been horrendous! |
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Post by satellite on Jun 22, 2011 17:31:18 GMT -4
Poor V.C....it's hard to write about something you have absolutely no experience in....especially something like sex. In her books, around 80% of sex is via rape. Maybe she had rape fantasies. Because only in her book does a girl get raped and all she has to say to her rapist is...I'm very upset with you (DDD...dumb, ditzy, Dawn). In V.C. world, if you like and enjoy sex, you must be a slut or loose. I feel bad for her. Her parents must've been horrendous! Yeah, you're right. Maybe that's why her books appeal to the age group that they do. |
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dwanollah
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Post by dwanollah on Sept 9, 2011 9:36:30 GMT -4
Happy birthday Audrina Adare! Just remember, bad things happen when the ninth day of the ninth month comes along....
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Post by koshergrit on Sept 9, 2011 19:58:43 GMT -4
Happy birthday Audrina Adare! Just remember, bad things happen when the ninth day of the ninth month comes along.... Not anymore, since she sold Whitefern, kicked Papa out on the street, and moved with Arden and Sylvia to Seattle, where she became a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in trauma and family therapy. |
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Post by americanchai on Sept 30, 2011 9:34:22 GMT -4
OMG, you guys, I found my junior high stash of VC Andrews books in my parents' basement last weekend when I was home. Skimming through the likes of Heaven and My Sweet Audrina, I had to LOL at how lame they are. I do remember how wickedly entertaining they were at the time but now I realize I've been de-sensitized by TruTV and the I.D. channel (and, uh, real life experience) with all of their sordid real-life stuff. Oh, to be so innocent.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2011 5:08:38 GMT -4
Don't know if this is worth posting, but I was surprised the other day in the library, by the new UK reissues of the Dollanganger saga. Basically, HarperCollins are attempting to pull a fast one on readers unfamiliar with Andrews' work, by repackaging the books in covers that make them look like respectable gothic/horror lit. Example 1, Example 2, Example 3. They're gorgeous-looking, but I can't help but feel a little bad for the people who pick these up thinking they're going to get "beautifully written...gothic horror crossed with fairytales". |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2012 17:35:27 GMT -4
OK, while I've read the Cutler series and My Sweet Audrina as well as a few others, I just borrowed FITA from the library and discovered that I'd never actually read it. Until this week.
OMG. What. The. Fuck. So, in the other books, they always explained away incest by the fact that it wasn't blood relation or whatever. But not in Flowers in the Attic! This shit is nuts! "Sorry I raped you." "No really, it's my fault." Sigh. True love. I'm totally predicting that Cathy finds and fucks her mom's husband when the relationship with her brother goes awry.
Was totally not expecting the arsenic. What the fuck was the mother planning to do, just kill them all and take each one to hospital with "pneumonia" and claim they're all nieces and nephews? Was the grandmother the mother's pawn or was she in on the whole thing? Ugh, why do I care?
Tragically, I really want to read Petals on the Wind, but no library in my town actually has it. Do I have to buy this shit?
ETA: I just learned they made a movie in the eighties. Based on this excerpt from a comment on the imdb, I am totally going to watch it: "What I didn't realise, was how much of a massacre the film was going to make of such a beautifully written book." Amazing.
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Post by chonies on Aug 7, 2012 17:53:32 GMT -4
OK, while I've read the Cutler series and My Sweet Audrina as well as a few others, I just borrowed FITA from the library and discovered that I'd never actually read it. Until this week. OMG. What. The. Fuck. So, in the other books, they always explained away incest by the fact that it wasn't blood relation or whatever. But not in Flowers in the Attic! This shit is nuts! "Sorry I raped you." "No really, it's my fault." Sigh. True love. I'm totally predicting that Cathy finds and fucks her mom's husband when the relationship with her brother goes awry. Was totally not expecting the arsenic. What the fuck was the mother planning to do, just kill them all and take each one to hospital with "pneumonia" and claim they're all nieces and nephews? Was the grandmother the mother's pawn or was she in on the whole thing? Ugh, why do I care? Tragically, I really want to read Petals on the Wind, but no library in my town actually has it. Do I have to buy this shit? ETA: I just learned they made a movie in the eighties. Based on this excerpt from a comment on the imdb, I am totally going to watch it: "What I didn't realise, was how much of a massacre the film was going to make of such a beautifully written book." Amazing. I'm always a little bit wistful that I lost my FITA innocence before I could know how truly, breathtakingly, astoundingly WTF they are. I feel so jaded now.  However, I totally agree that one of the persistently interesting things to me is how Corinne vacillates between evil-evil and just-a-pawn-evil. Yay adverbs! |
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However, I totally agree that one of the persistently interesting things to me is how Corinne vacillates between evil-evil and just-a-pawn-evil.