Little but linkspam

[cleolinda]

I came home from class (Ann[e] is officially calling me Cleo now; she seems to be pleased with her copy of the book, and I tested out the This book: *is signed* bit on her, and it seemed to go over well), and my poor dog meets me at the door and then I notice he can't even get up the stairs hardly. He's holding his front right paw up and limping

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[jedilora]

Just finished reading the book, and it is just WONDERFUL. Am totally bringing it around campus tomorrow.

[megotelek]

*taps foot impatiently* Mine's apparently breaststroking across the Atlantic verrrry leisurely...

Me want my book! *pout*

[jedilora]

Mine took five days from when they sent me the "dispatched" email.

Your icon!

[lylassandra]

OH MY GOD! One of my friends leaned over and hissed that in my ear the second time I saw it, thus ruining that scene for me forever!

[sigma7]

My best translation:

--I bid you greetings with luncheon meat!
--Are you exceptionally swift?
--I await your response to my interrogative.
--My hairy chair is looking for the postal delivery employee who will bring me milk and honey.
--Again, I am pausing for your acknowledgement of my attempts to gain information.
--People from Montana applaud my swift wagers on coffee.
--See you later, adorable criminal.

The trick to not being confused by a foreign language is not trying to understand it at all and forcing it to conform to your reality. Besides, you're a best-selling author. It's your world now, dawg.

[achipiquonque]

Oh, gee, thanks. You just killed me. That was really funny.

[cleolinda]

See you later, adorable criminal.

I am totally stealing that for my list of things to write when signing books.

[koritsimou]

Oh god, my firstborn is yours. Oh god.

[cisforcorrie]

Oh, those VC Andrews books were wacky bits of fun, huh? I didnt' even know a movie existed though, I'll have to hunt that down for sure.

[cleolinda]

It's got a young Kristy "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Swanson, is the best part. I want to say that Louise Fletcher is the evil grandmother, but I can't remember exactly. Victoria Principal may or may not be the mothersisterniecewoman.

[apocalypsos]

Yup, Louise Fletcher was the evil grandmother, but Victoria Tennant was the woman who played the creepy mom. Oh, and then there was the brother that Kristy Swanson was having all of the incestuous vibes with, whom I've only ever seen otherwise as the buddy of the asshole popular guy in The Goonies.

... aaaaand now I really want to see that movie again. Damn.

[cleolinda]

I knew it was a Victoria.

[apocalypsos]

Oh, I used to adore Flowers in the Attic when I was a teenager. That movie made me go out and read as many V. C. Andrews books as possible, which was maybe about three or so before I realized they were all about a happy poor girl who gets ripped from obscurity to live with her rich so-far-unknown family where she's tentatively content until she gets knocked up by her half-brother.

Not that that stopped me from reading about ten more after that realization, but still.

[linden_jay]

Oh my god... it's like looking at my childhood! Uh, reading habits anyway.

Doesn't she always get raped by the boy she has a crush on who turns out to be related to her? That or the older uncle/father/stepfather type, who uses her because his wife is too squeemish to have sex?

If I end up going looking for my VC Andrews collection again, I'm gonna have to smack someone around....

[apocalypsos]

Oh, half of the time, it's rape, and the other half of the time, it's total mind-blowing hearts-and-flowers LUUUUUV with someone she later turns out to be uncomfortably related to.

But she ALWAYS gets pregnant by this close relative, and while she never has a kid with three heads, she always ends up having it in the back of a car or in a mountain cabin or a garden shed or something. And everybody's all worried because it's a month early and, you know, because of the rich inbreeding, but then she gives birth to the most perfect premature child EVER. Which either gets named after whichever loving adoptive relative died so that she can end up with this incestuous Brady Bunch or ends up with some flowery, girly name.

...

No, I didn't read waaaaaay too many of those books. *headsmack*

[linden_jay]

... I think I still have them. Like, all of them *hangs head in shame*

... No, I'm not now considering looking them up when I go home for Christmas break *headdesk*

God, I forgot about the Brady bunch names... I know there was an Annie, and a Christy, and Heaven, who's middle name was Leigh *eyeroll*... it really is scarring me how much of this I remember.

[themindseye]

You should read My Sweet Audrina. That was fucked up. I read this when I was in my early teens. I still remember that book more than any other one I read at that age.

[linden_jay]

That book freaked me out. The whole swiss cheese memory thing, and sitting in the rocking chair trying to channel 'the first Audrina'. VC Andrews is messed up shit!

[tenebris]

I tracked that down and read it this summer while on vacation, 'cause I had also read it as a teen and remembered being fascinated by it. It was...disturbing. Though the first thing I noticed was that she and her mom have violet eyes and "chameleon hair"--different colors from different angles.

"Oh my GOD," I said to myself, "it's the Mary Sue family!"

[themindseye]

I so don't remember that. Now I need to read that book again. LOL