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Post by Ginger on Jan 16, 2014 21:58:40 GMT -4
You guys make it sound like Carrie and Cory suicided themselves! They were all being poisoned without realizing it, but the arsenic took the little ones faster because they were so much smaller to begin with.
That sex scene with Catherine and Julian was one of the first literary sex scenes to impact my adolescent self, along with some choice Judy Blume passages.
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Post by kostgard on Jan 16, 2014 22:23:39 GMT -4
Yep. One of Cathy's many husbands was her former stepfather, Bart. And wasn't Bart, Jr a little psychopath? I remember something about him grinding dog poop into a cut on his leg. Julian's kid was a sweetheart, if I recall correctly.
Cory was murdered by donut and didn't make it out of the attic (and yes, Corrine just crammed his body in some corner of the house. Like, no one noticed the smell?). Big Head Carrie made it out of the attic, but she was never the same after Cory died and eventually suicided herself by donut. Because of symbolism or whatever.
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Post by Ginger on Jan 17, 2014 0:32:08 GMT -4
How could I have forgotten a symbolic donut suicide?! If I go back and re-read these at the age of 36, do you think I will be disappointed?
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Post by GoldenFleece on Jan 17, 2014 1:05:55 GMT -4
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Post by prisma on Jan 17, 2014 1:09:56 GMT -4
That sex scene with Catherine and Julian was one of the first literary sex scenes to impact my adolescent self, along with some choice Judy Blume passages. I don't remember the sex scene between Cathy and Julian, dang it! Or at least I don't remember the details of it. (However, I do remember Ralph from Forever by Judy Blume. That was a significant book for me.) Refresh my memory: did Chris rape Cathy in the attic? I remember that he came back enraged after discovering Cathy had kissed Bart. Did he actually rape her then? I think I'm going to have to download this from Amazon and re-read it. The holes in my memory are bugging me. Yes, Bart Jr. was a little psychopath but something happened to him in the end that redeemed him and he became a preacher, I think. Jory was the sweetheart. I also really was into My Sweet Audrina but lost interest when the Heaven series came along because it was just the Flowers in the Attic series again with opposites (everyone had black hair instead of blond, she came from poor trash instead of secretly rich people.) |
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Post by narm on Jan 17, 2014 1:33:29 GMT -4
I am the lone member of Gen X that never read these books. They sounded horrifying and completely traumatizing to my little brain, but I am enjoying the hell out of seeing all the Greecies reminisce!  |
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Post by chonies on Jan 17, 2014 2:04:53 GMT -4
narm, there are doubtless better ways to spend your time...but if you need something gripping and horrible, there are few better ways to traumatize your brain. For science, of course.
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Post by SweetOblivion on Jan 17, 2014 8:04:38 GMT -4
I read all the Flowers and Audrina books when I was a kid as they were the few non-religious books my mother would let me read, because she had no idea what they were. If the Winns in our small conservative town carried them, they couldn't possibly be smut, right?  |
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Post by Mugsy on Jan 17, 2014 9:37:53 GMT -4
I really want to see this for, um, research purposes. So I can write a column about pop culture from the '80s, yeah, that's it.
That said, we don't have Lifetime here. Is it called something else in eastern Canada? I get W, Slice and Cosmo. Surely, one of those will air it? (she asks hopefully)
All these remembered bits are great, but I can see why an uninitiated reader would be horrified. It was messed up. I still have all four books. Although I've culled my paperbacks over the years, I hung on to these.
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Post by tabby on Jan 17, 2014 10:00:26 GMT -4
You guys at least have the excuse that you were teenagers when you read them. They came out when I was a grown-ass woman, and I read them then. Along with half the other people in my office.
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