Unlike many others in my high school, I didn’t read Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger)
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In which there is eye loss, incest, and a cameo by Michelangelo ( Read more... )

The art is still gorgeous. The incest is still disturbingly hot, and there was a surprise heterosexual and as far as we know now, non-incestuous affair that was both hot and sweet. The plot, which featured an evil hand and crystal wings of demonic D00M, is so deliciously insane that I ended up live-blogging them to oyceter over email ( Read more... )

In honor of Cantarella being about the tenth manga to make me root for the incest pairing, I present a fictional sibling incest poll! It is limited to siblings, half-siblings, clones, cousins, and other non-parental cases, because I find the latter too disturbing to even think about ( Read more... )

I recount this exchange between me and Oyce the other night because she wanted it preserved for posterity. It is especially apropos in light of the bewilderment (mostly mine and Oyce's) going on the comments to the Fairy Cube post. The thing with Yuki Kaori plots is that they're so insane, complex, and insanely complex that even if you understand ( Read more... )

( At the moment that Jimmy dies, Seth will become a beautiful woman. )

I read this manga a while ago, but while culling my bookshelves recently I re-read it to see if it was as insane and incoherent as I remembered. Indeed, it was! I will now recount the plot for posterity before placing it on Book Mooch ( Read more... )

This is all coffeeandink's fault. Who would have thought that my hunger for pulp sf with psychic powers and adventures and exotic landscapes and culture shock, which has gone so long denied because most of what's written in the genre is so clunky that I can't read it, would be satisfied by, of all people, Marion Zimmer Badley? True, her prose sometimes clunks ( Read more... )

This is all
coffeeandink's faultThese are a set of old (1965-1970) sf novels about Darkover, a vividly evoked lost colony where, due to interbreeding with native psychic aliens, a caste of red-headed telepaths evolved, used their psychic powers to commit massively destructive acts, then renounced all weapons that kill at a distance and most of their psychic ( Read more... )