Utopia/Dystopia

[lilyfriend]

DuPrau

Jeanne

City of Ember

2003

DuPrau

Jeanne

People of Sparks

(sequel to City of Ember)

2004

Haddix

Margaret Peterson

Running Out Of Time

1995

Haddix

Margaret Peterson

Among The Hidden

Shadow Children #1

1998

Haddix

Margaret Peterson

Among The Imposters

Shadow Children #2

2001

Haddix

Margaret Peterson

Comments

[false_ambition]

I spent my youth reading Christopher Pike, Anne Rice and VC Andrews..none of which I would recommend to anyone.

Okay, well maybe "Flowers in the Attic" (was that the title?), just because the level of fucked upness is unreal. I mean who locks their kids in an attic, and then doesn't expect them to have sex and start a family of their own? That book is awesome. The best part is that that is only the beginning, there is like four more books after that, all of which are more messed up than the last. Man, you know there was some B level porn based on that shit.

Umm, okay maybe not the best book to recommend to youth. Is it wrong that I totally want to go buy Flowers in the Attic now?

[lilyfriend]

Really fucked up, yea. You get so close to the two kids in that book, then when the brother does what he does.. it gets all awkward.. as if the whole situation wasn't messed up enough before. With the grandmother trying to kill them all.. yet only killing the one twin.

I thought about reading that book a couple weeks ago to. All my VC Andrews books were lost over various garage sales.

What's really most disturbing, to me, these days, is the age at which me and all my friends were reading these. Incest, rape, sex, etc.. in like grade 6-7. Yikes. I'm not letting my kids read til they're 40!!! ;)

[lilyfriend]

Er, but yea.. no.. Those aren't the sort of books I'm looking for. Even though the age of the protagonists is about right. Kinda looking for something that won't have parents waking me up at 4am with pitchforks and fire.

[lilyfriend]

Aaaaannnd... I'm specifically looking for dystopias. Ideal world gone wrong sorta things. Not just the screwed up lives of those poor poor kids Andrews wrote about. lol

[false_ambition]

The Giver? Is that one?

Yeah, I know. I mean they talk about the internet and the sex kids can access now, but man, between Andrews and Rice, I think fucked up sex was quite easy to get your hands one.

You know, once VC Andrews died, they continued making books under her name, but they were way tamer and geared towards teens. I sometimes wonder about some poor 13 year old who picks up Flowers in The Attic expecting some teenage mystery, and find brothers screwing sisters. Man, I forgot about the grandma, she tried to kill them with poison right?

A few months ago, I ran across it in Bolen Books. The best pat? The cover was a photograph of some beach scene, with two blonde teeangers hugging and the sun in the background. It was so wrong, I mean, this is the one book you do not want to make appealing to 11 year olds.

Okay, I totally have to get my hands on that book.

[lilyfriend]

Chose my book.. it's called "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld. Loving it so far.. first in a trilogy. About a world where everyone receives extensive plastic surgery when they're 16, so everyone is "equal". As you can imagine.. things aren't so perfect. hehe.