Flowers in the Attic

[mrv3000]

Ack! Flowers in the Attic flashbacks! Help me!

[Poll #935739]

ETA: Stupid lack of editing polls! Of course it should be "Not only haven't I read it, I've never heard of it." Yay for pedantic tendencies.

Comments

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

I had a serious love for My Sweet Audrina in about eighth grade, I suspect mostly because I had simply never run across any fictional family quite that fucked-up before. I still kinda like it, I suspect mostly because it wasn't part of a series, and thus the fucked-upness was relatively finite.

I probably wouldn't have read anything else of hers if I hadn't started there. I read FitA and another book or two in that series before I got bored, and didn't even bother with any of the others.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of My Sweet Audrina before so had to google. V.C. Andrews really liked doing twisted family relationships, eh?

I can't remember how many of those FitA books I read. It may have just been one more. But I lost interest as well. The first book was all about the shock value, and the rest...

[misssimm.livejournal.com]

I loved FitA, although I was a bit fed up of the whole family by the time I finished the series!!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

So did the brother and sister end up getting married? I really can't remember.

[misssimm.livejournal.com]

Yep they did!

Then in the prequal it's explained that the reason the grandmother thought they'd sleep together (which they obvious did in the end) was because their parents were actually brother & sister as well but didn't know it.

[geneeste.livejournal.com]

What was the plot of this book? Is it worth reading? (Incest? *Really*?)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Well...it's sorta a book you read in junior high because your parents have no idea what it's about if they happen to see it lying around. :D

The plot - basically there's 4 children whose mother takes them all to live with their grandparents. And there's a reason - I don't remember what - but the kids have to live in the attic and never let the grandfather know they exist. They can *never* leave the attic. I think a couple of years go by, the older kids start having sex, and the grandmother tries to kill them all off by poisoning them.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Isn't the grandfather actually the father? Or something like that. I seem to recall the kids being the product of incest themselves in some way, and the grandmother having brain embolisms about it all starting "again" or something...

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

It's a fairly dreadful book, which was made into an even more dreadful movie. Both are train-wreck fascinating.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

ACK! I'd blocked the movie!

[kammgirl.livejournal.com]

I read a few of the books. There was some major cursedness (I know that's not a word) in that family.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

*Completely* messed up. Completely.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm oddly disappointed that no one on your flist wrote FitA fanfic, actually.

[misssimm.livejournal.com]

I've seen FilA Sims if they makes you feel any better! ;)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I know! You'd think! I like to think my flist has hit everything.

[nandamai]

Heh heh. Did you see Everybody Hates Chris last week?

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I saw part of one just recently where he and his friend skipped school. Was there a Flowers in the Attic reference?

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

Never read it, but thanks to my flist, I've heard enough about it that I'm aware of the contents.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

But just think of everything you've missed out on! The incest! And the rat poison! And...the incest!

[ramdonomo.livejournal.com]

Nuts to you! I wrote FitA fic!

I refuse to be the only person who cops to that. Sorry. *shrugs*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

YAY! I knew there'd be someone! (You're serious, right? For some reason I think I may have actually know this information, now that I think about it. And if not you, then I swear *someone* on my flist has written FitA fic.)

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

Best. Crazy incest poll. EvAr.

I was just talking about V.C. Andrews with someone this weekend.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Best. Crazy incest poll. EvAr.

WOO!

I was just talking about V.C. Andrews with someone this weekend.

Oooh, coincidence!

[hyari.livejournal.com]

Oh Good Lord. *Flashback to Junior High*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why all these TV shows are about the angst of high school. The *real* hell is junior high.