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⌈ Secret Post #3030 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

11. http://i.imgur.com/sCsgY6s.png

[(Anonymous)]

I see this title mentioned a lot when people talk about V.C. Andrews, but considering what a trainwreck that series is, I guess I'm not surprised. Does anyone think it's worth reading?

[(Anonymous)]

This is her one and only standalone novel--and one of the few actually written by VCA herself rather than the ocean of series turned out by (I think) Andrew Neiderman. So if you want to get a bit of the VCA experience without investing in a series of 4 or more books, this would be the one to read. I think it's actually one of the better ones.

[(Anonymous)]

It's really not. I mean, like another anon said if you wanna get a feel for all her stories without slogging through 4-5 books this would be the book to read. But it's not very good.

[(Anonymous)]

Some things are bad in a good way, though.

[blitzwing]

+1. One should read it, if only for the sheer amount of drama packed in one book and one setting.

[feotakahari]

"A film adaption is currently in production by Lifetime and is expected to be released in 2016."

[(Anonymous)]

Wtf lifetime. O____o

[(Anonymous)]

If the summary posted in the thread is anything to go by, it sounds perfect for a lifetime movie. So I don't get the fuss.

[(Anonymous)]

Haven't they also done all the Flowers in the Attics ones?

[(Anonymous)]

Yep.

[comma_chameleon]

I... what? How could you make that book anything below an R? There's rape, abuse (mental and physical from what I remember), and a who big pile of WTF.

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, I only ever read the Flowers in the Attic series, and even that got a touch messed up for me. What's off about this one?

[feotakahari]

"The story features diverse real-world subjects such as brittle bone disease, rape, posttraumatic stress disorder, diabetes and autism." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sweet_Audrina

The article's worth reading just for the plot summary. It's like the author spliced together everything that would have shocked people in the '50s. (Which is surprising given that it was written in the '80s.)

[(Anonymous)]

Imagine a book filled with rape, abuse, electric shock thearpy, and mental disabilities all written in the most melodramatic 1980s way possible. That's pretty much every VC Andrews book ever.

[jaydestarlight]

The Flowers in the Attic series (at least, what I've read) are such melodramatic, problematic books that I can't help but love to hate it. I can't imagine how over the top ridiculous her other novels are.

[(Anonymous)]

And that is a completely understandable reaction to reading V.C. Andrews.

[(Anonymous)]

I absolutely agree with you OP. And I read some of her other series lol.

I can't help but wanna read the flowers in the attic series just to see how bad it is.

[bio_obscura]

I remember reading Dawn by her in 5th grade. I was in a reading program and we got a certain number of points depending on how long we read. Even at that age I kinda knew I was reading trash and felt guilty for collecting points for it.

Now I kinda want to read a ton of her books. They're such a 70s, innocent, girly kind of trashy, like something Lux Lisbon would read.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I read Dawn after I read the Heaven series and what really struck me was how similar the general plot pattern was.

[i_paint_the_sky]

Well, considering Dawn was, IIRC, the first ghostwritten series, that doesn't surprise me too much.

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[(Anonymous)]

Image: the cover of V.C. Andrews’ My Sweet Audrina

I like to think I at least learned something from a book even if I didn’t enjoy it. But this?

I regret reading and I wish I could erase from my mind.

[(Anonymous)]

Awwe that was always my favourite V.C. Andrews novel when I was a wee lass back in the 80s. Of course they are terrible novels really, and I wouldn't read it today but I did love that one the most of all of hers.

[i_paint_the_sky]

It's been awhile since I read Audrina but I remember liking it, in all it's dark and twistedness.

I also am very found of the Ruby books and the Willow books as well, even realizing that Willow is 100% the Ruby plot recycled. Oddly enough, I found Willow to be better written than the other books, though I've been told it was the same ghostwriter for all of them.