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| Original Title: | Flowers in the Attic |
| ISBN: | 0743496310 (ISBN13: 9780743496315) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Dollanganger #1 |
| Characters: | Cathy Dollanganger, Chris Dollanganger, Cory Dollanganger, Carrie Dollanganger, Corrine Dollanganger, Olivia Foxworth |
| Setting: | Virginia(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards for Secondary (1993) |
V.C. Andrews
Paperback | Pages: 389 pages Rating: 3.81 | 148852 Users | 7646 Reviews
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| Title | : | Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger #1) |
| Author | : | V.C. Andrews |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 389 pages |
| Published | : | 1979 by Pocket Books |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature. Jewish. Historical. Historical Fiction. Religion. Judaism |
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Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror! It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father. So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic. Just for a little while. But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work—children who—one by one—must be destroyed.... 'Way upstairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent struggling to stay alive....Rating Epithetical Books Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger #1)
Ratings: 3.81 From 148852 Users | 7646 ReviewsJudgment Epithetical Books Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger #1)
I met a friend for drinks last night. She came up and took one glance at the back cover to this book and her eyes widened. "No," she breathed. "Seriously?" Of course she recognized it from the back. She read it around seventh grade. I read it around seventh grade. You read it around seventh grade. An entire generation has this lurking in our collective adolescence.So that's why I re-read it. (Okay, that and I thought it was hilarious just to hold it up on the subway.) I wanted to know just howIt's really worth 3 1/2 stars. I just can't give it 4. It was written well enough (maybe a little too simple for me). I just felt it is was very predictable and obviously setting up for a serial (with all the predictable drama of broken relationships). Just not my cup of tea as they use to say.
I know, I know... this book is tawdry, it's tabloidy. It's the one book I secretly coveted and acquired in my tedious pre-pubescent soul-searching. I'd lay under the covers, flashlight in hand, knees up to make a psuedo-tent and I'd search... for the dirty parts. I knew there was something naughty between these pages, something to be whispered and giggled about later on with my girlfriends, something I didn't rightly understand.I went back and read the entire Dollanganger series as an adult, and
Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/Im going to take a lesson out of my pal Nicks playbook here and not rate this selection. What he says is 100% accurate this series is terrible, but I love it anyway. I actually decided to revisit my youth last week after seeing both NZLisaM and Bark reading it while I waited with bated breath for either an early copy approval or the release date for another controversial story - My Dark Vanessa. (Spoiler Alert: I was finally
Okay, not able to do a full review at the moment... I finished this book last night, and I can't get it out of my head. I know I want to read the second book, but I need a little time first. There were some terrible things going on, but then around 90% I kinda lost it (view spoiler)[ They killed off one of the twins??? Terrible! Then when I found out about the doughnuts... ugh- got that sick to my stomach feeling. I can't believe that grandmother and mother! (hide spoiler)] Now to the
With the novel that put V.C. Andrews on the mapand set the book-reading world aflutterthis piece seeks to explore the darkest and most seedy side of familial interactions and the extend to which blood can blind when placed in front of an extreme moral code. The Dollanganger family are living a wonderful life, two loving parents and four well-behaved childrenChris, Cathy, Cory, and Carrie. When news comes that the patriarch has died in a fiery crash, changes must be made. A slew of letters go
I really hate this book. I also hate "Petals on The Wind", "If There Be Thorns" and "Seeds of Yesterday". I say this having just re-read each of the above 17 years after I first read them (they were heady stuff to a 12 year old), and I was appalled at the predictability of the plot, the characters, the obsession Virgina Andrews appeared to harbour for incestuous relationships.I hate the fact that characters are so stereotypically physically stunning, but must shoulder a terrible tragic burden. I
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