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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 10:54:16 GMT -4
I heard about them but never read them - their Wikipedia entries are making my hair stand on end.  |
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Post by prisma on Jan 17, 2014 10:55:30 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?  Ha! That was my experience, too. My mom really controlled what I could buy and read, but the V.C. Andrews books were shelved in the horror section at Bookland at the mall, so that threw her off task and she had no idea these were full of incest and sex. I don't subscribe to cable so I don't know how I'm going to get to watch this. If I ask to go over to my parents' house to watch mom will learn the truth about what these books were really about and I'll be busted at last! Thank you to everyone for indulging me in this nostalgia. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 11:03:15 GMT -4
What's the deal with everyone dying from fires or being paralyzed in car accidents? That seems to be a common theme.
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Post by GoldenFleece on Jan 17, 2014 11:13:33 GMT -4
What's the deal with everyone dying from fires or being paralyzed in car accidents? That seems to be a common theme. IIRC, VC Andrews was confined to a wheelchair for much of her life, so the idea of being trapped in a fire was probably terrifying to her. |
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Post by chonies on Jan 17, 2014 11:45:30 GMT -4
I don't especially remember the sex scenes (I had already read "Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask" and a handful of romance novels, tyvm) but I did learn about air embolisms. The idea that I knew how to kill someone after reading a crappy novel I'd bought for a quarter was traumatic.
Also, the paralyzed/confined to a wheelchair thing aren't just things that happen, they were things that happened to extremely physical people, like a ballet danseur, so it kind of trades on that "it's worse somehow" melodrama.
tabby, was there hype? Was it anywhere near Twilight?
Also, borokat, if you're interested, there are a lot of descriptions of things like clothing, architecture and furniture.
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Post by tabby on Jan 17, 2014 14:07:52 GMT -4
Not that I remember. This was way, way pre-internet, and I didn't know any middle- or high-schoolers at the time. It was just people at the office saying, "Hey, have you read this? You should, it's whacko." I certainly don't remember anything like the TwiMoms, thank the dear Lord.
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Post by chiquita on Jan 17, 2014 14:09:37 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. My friend who works for Lifetime said they aren't in Canada. She didn't know whether a Canadian channel picked up the rights for it. I don't subscribe to cable so I don't know how I'm going to get to watch this. If I ask to go over to my parents' house to watch mom will learn the truth about what these books were really about and I'll be busted at last! Thank you to everyone for indulging me in this nostalgia. The Lifetime website will have it available to view soon. My friend said "fast turnaround", so my guess is it will be online on their site on Wednesday. She also suggested their Watch app, although you may need cable authentication, which would entail getting your parents details/account info to use. I never read the books, but I'm horrified by everything I've heard about them. I knew a lot of people who read them, but somehow never heard about how messed up the books are. |
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Post by Sunnyhorse on Jan 17, 2014 15:08:11 GMT -4
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Post by scarlet on Jan 17, 2014 15:24:47 GMT -4
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, he did--on the smelly old mattress that they had up in the playroom. Then, in Petals on the Wind, she hemorrhaged--I think because she hadn't been getting her period and then they "all broke loose" or something more medical than that (or not)--and the doctor's sister, who didn't want him involved with her, told her she had a miscarriage. That's how the doc found out she and Chris had "DONE IT" because they hadn't yet. |
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Post by chonies on Jan 17, 2014 15:43:09 GMT -4
I was under the impression it actually was a miscarriage, and it was a conjoined fetus or something. Or was that another scene?
ETA: I never explained too much in depth to my nice new friend who grew up outside the US and with English as not one of her primary languages, and definitely not this part, but now I realize precisely why she was giving me that "HALP am trapped" look.
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