Mierin
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Post by Mierin on Jan 17, 2014 19:34:20 GMT -4
My recollection (which is shaky, for sure) is that the sister told Cathy that the doctor had the malformed fetus in his office in a jar and Cathy believed that, but when she talked to the doctor (whose name I am blanking on. See: shaky recollection) he told her he'd had that since medical school. I will go with your theory. I don't even remember this part of the story, probably for the better.  Yep! That's pretty much what happened. The doctor told her she'd had a mother of all periods given that she wasn't being starved any more. Of course, instead of talking to the Dr after the sister told her the baby sotry, Cathy ran off and got married to someone else and THEN talked to the Dr.  |
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Post by narm on Jan 17, 2014 21:37:10 GMT -4
Holy shit. I can't believe what I missed. It's of nightmares. Borokat? Hold me.
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Post by Augustus on Jan 17, 2014 22:03:36 GMT -4
Wow. I loved the books in my early teens, but they made such an impact I've pretty much forgotten what goes on in them. All I remember is the sense of WTF? drama, the incest, and the general horribleness of so many characters. Though after some time I'd get so annoyed with the stream of helpless, but drop dead gorgeous girl/woman protagonists I stopped reading them altogether.
Ha, it's a total blast from the past.
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Queena
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Post by Queena on Jan 17, 2014 22:09:26 GMT -4
FiTA holds a special place in my heart. I was 4 when it came out, but I remember my Mom reading it. I remember her telling me about these kids locked in an attic, which my 4 year old mind confused with a cellar, and I was hooked! That book literally made me want to read. Fast forward to 1984, and I'm 9 years old. Newly moved to the big city from a small town. Everyone told me if I went outside I would be killed. I believed them. I started reading to pass the time. First book I picked up was FiTA. V.C. Andrews and Shel Silverstein are the very reasons I read right now today. Of course, now I read more mature books, but I am still and will always be a fan of V.C. Andrews early books and Laura Ingalls Wilder, because she was everything to me, and her birthday is one day after mine. Sorry, I digress.
I am excited for this movie! I read one review, and I don't think they understood the book. I'm still looking forward to this! I'm going to drink every time they say 'devil's spawn'. It'll be just my luck, they won't mention it once!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 22:24:40 GMT -4
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<"What. The. Hell." Holy shit. I can't believe what I missed. It's of nightmares. Borokat? Hold me. Narm and I are going to sit over here in the corner and cut out snowflakes and stare at pictures of Chris Cornell. It's our happy place. Yep, I believe that Bert is reading FiTA in my avatar. |
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Mierin
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Post by Mierin on Jan 17, 2014 22:24:59 GMT -4
I read them as a teen and thought they were great. As an adult, I re-read them and wondered why my mother ever let me read them. Heh. I'm ridiculously excited for this movie! I like your idea Queena, but fear I'd die of alcohol poisoning pretty quickly. |
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Post by prisma on Jan 17, 2014 23:44:40 GMT -4
That was in POTW, I believe. And Cathy was wearing pointe shoes and (maybe) a tutu. Yes! And I think the leotard was super sheer white so you could see her pink skin showing through. She would spin/twirl around the bed and then lash her grandmother with the whip. Good times! More coming back: wasn't the doctor/adopted father/second husband named Joel? |
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Post by chonies on Jan 17, 2014 23:54:57 GMT -4
Joel was the brother/half-brother of Corinne. I had to look this up on the plot summaries on Wikipedia.  |
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Post by kostgard on Jan 18, 2014 1:15:44 GMT -4
Paul was the "Oh, hey, kids! Let me be your legal guardian until I totally bone Cathy" doctor. Paul Sheffield. Chris and Cathy took Sheffield as their last name when they moved to California and went all Targaryen.
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Post by famvir on Jan 18, 2014 12:21:15 GMT -4
I READ these books, but not as a kid, and I was appalled! (But not enough to not read the next two books). They were in the young adult section, along with another book (I reported the other book to the librarian. It was more profane and just wrong than FitA!)
And I don't remember any of the stuff you guys remember! Just the incest and the peaking during the dance and the powdered donuts. I must have repressed it all!
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