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Little but linkspam

Oct 24, 2005 22:45

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 ( Read more... )

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apocalypsos October 25 2005, 03:54:54 UTC

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 October 25 2005, 04:00:42 UTC

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 October 25 2005, 04:07:53 UTC

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 October 25 2005, 04:17:54 UTC

... 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.

apocalypsos October 25 2005, 04:26:34 UTC

I think Heaven Leigh was my favorite one of the names, to the point where I was actually considering that name for a kid one day.

God, am I glad I never became a pregnant sixteen-year-old. *headshake*

suenosdejmi October 26 2005, 16:02:46 UTC

Don't feel bad guys. I think a whole lot of people were there with you. I read them too...(and yeah, I did like Heaven Leigh too, and I agree with the pregnant sixteen year old part...)

As a matter of fact, I still have some of them...but I think the only ones I've got are the Runaways set...that one wasn't TOO bad or chocked full of QUITE so much incestiousness.

Is that a word? It is now. :)

cleolinda October 25 2005, 04:20:03 UTC

I am in love with your icon.

apocalypsos October 25 2005, 04:31:32 UTC

Hee. Thanks. It's all new and shiny. :)

exiledprincess October 25 2005, 04:36:11 UTC

You're forgetting the evil stepmother who hates her because her dad loved her mom more, and the evil rich relative who treats her like crap, and the drunken dad/ grandpere who blackmails rich family, and ends up drowning in his own vomit.

cattikins October 25 2005, 04:47:51 UTC

OMG your icon. Is awesome.

And also, I LOVED VC Andrews books when I was about...12, I guess? At that age where I was too old for Baby-Sitter's Club and Animorphs (I still own about 8 Animorphs books and read them regularly, though). That transition period, I guess. I chose VC Andrews to help me through it. Man.

exiledprincess October 25 2005, 04:56:19 UTC

Thanks! I like yours too.

Yeah, I went from BSC to VC Andrews. And the sick thing? Is that I read my mom and grandma's copies. I don't know if it's normal for maternal figures to give those books to 13 year old girls.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEE christigilly October 25 2005, 16:20:29 UTC

I just finished watching the ENTIRE 'Firefly' series on DVD. Sooooo good. I'm going to have to go see Serenity AGAIN. A nice little bookend deal, since I saw the movie before I was able to borrow the DVDs to watch the series.

Where can I get some good Firefly info and icons?

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