1. I knew about the poisoned doughnuts, because I have seen the tail end of the 1970s movie version. (I have never read the book.)
1A. The only reason I know there are sequels is that one time, a couple years ago, snacky sat me down in a B&N and told me in detail the plots of the remaining books. They sounded hilariously terrible.
2. If you have never read a V. C. Andrews novel, you will find that they are all alike. Actually, that's literally true, because she died very early on in her franchise, so the succeeding authors did not have a lot of pointers as to what her audience liked so much. I read just enough of them in highschool to discover the following important axioms: * The heroine will always have a ridiculous name, usually a noun. * There are always strange and wealthy relatives waiting in the wings. * The heroine will be sexually menaced by someone genetically related to her, but whom she does not know at all. * The heroine will fall in love with, and traipse happily into the sunset with, someone to whom she in not genetically
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There was a 70s movie with bad bewinged blond hair. I believe there may have been ridic peter-pan collars and gigantic neckties. (Honestly, I only saw enough of it to remember that if I ever want to poison somebody, sugared doughnuts are the way to go.)
Truly awesomely bad, and surprisingly influential. Interestingly enough, I was just reminded of it by reading a Yuletide story which tried to "fix" it with a crossover from Madeleine L'Engle's Murry family.
I read it pretty young and somehow thought it was based on a true story. Your description here makes it sound creepier than I remember, though of course it came back to me quickly. I had forgotten about the tar, and the urination, and the blood. I think maybe it made me a little (more?) paranoid about the motives of adults/others rather than brought me to any kind of attachment to incest.
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(I remember seeing this in bookstores, but apparently missed the fervor over it and have never read it.)
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1A. The only reason I know there are sequels is that one time, a couple years ago, snacky sat me down in a B&N and told me in detail the plots of the remaining books. They sounded hilariously terrible.
2. If you have never read a V. C. Andrews novel, you will find that they are all alike. Actually, that's literally true, because she died very early on in her franchise, so the succeeding authors did not have a lot of pointers as to what her audience liked so much. I read just enough of them in highschool to discover the following important axioms:
* The heroine will always have a ridiculous name, usually a noun.
* There are always strange and wealthy relatives waiting in the wings.
* The heroine will be sexually menaced by someone genetically related to her, but whom she does not know at all.
* The heroine will fall in love with, and traipse happily into the sunset with, someone to whom she in not genetically ( ... )
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There was a 70s movie with bad bewinged blond hair. I believe there may have been ridic peter-pan collars and gigantic neckties. (Honestly, I only saw enough of it to remember that if I ever want to poison somebody, sugared doughnuts are the way to go.)
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