i finished a couple of not-very-good books and found cool shit online

[tsuki_no_bara]

What I just finished reading:
flowers in the attic and petals on the wind, both of which i found kind of frustrating. flowers because i wanted the purple to be better written, and petals because i didn't actually like cathy all that much.

Comments

[tricksterfae]

I probably read Flowers in the Attic around the time I was twelve also. I made my way through most of the series because my mother had them and I think it was one of the few fiction books I remember her ever reading or talking about having read besides a few Danielle Steele novels.

I vaguely remember thinking that Cathy was annoying way back then too and sort of skimming through parts of Petals on the Wind. I also remember not liking the way she was with her children in If There Be Thorns.

Apparently Lifetime is making a new movie.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i think a lot of girls discover it in their early teens. flowers in the attic certainly made the rounds of my seventh-grade class. my sister apparently read her copy so much that the cover came off. (altho i think she said she took it to camp one summer, which wouldn't have helped its condition.... i just imagined it being passed around the cabin.)

i heard that about lifetime! i watched their version of flowers and wasn't impressed - i didn't think any of the actors were any good - but i guess it got enough press and enough viewers that it's worth making the next one. a lot more stuff happens in petals and i'm actually kind of curious how they handle cathy and paul's relationship when she's a teenager and he's about old enough to be her father and they're both wildly attracted to each other.

[ashbet]

Yeah, I was twelve-ish . . . I'd guess? I know I was just hitting the "frustrated teenage sexpot" stage (mine hit early), so I read the HELL out of VC Andrews and anything else even mildly salacious that I could get my hands on

[tsuki_no_bara]

i don't think they hold up well. (well, the dollenganger series doesn't. i know know about heaven) i know that the stuff i would've found romantic or hot or just really interesting and emotional when i was twelve, i now find kind of frustrating and tropey and, uh, regressive, and i don't have the patience for all the ott plot elements. and i think vc andrews had kind of a heavy hand with the sex and death and curses and DOOM and fucked-up family dynamics, and i like a lighter touch. but when i was twelve? GIMME.

i kinda love that your love for bjds started with heaven, tho. i don't have the money for them, but they're stunning creations.

[chemm80]

I certainly had a flashback to reading those books when I first heard of Sam/Dean (which was the first slash pairing I was aware of).

[tsuki_no_bara]

it does have a vaguely wincesty feel.... which just makes me wonder if someone has written a flowers in the attic spn au.

[chemm80]

I don't know, but I've certainly heard SPN referred to as "Flowers in the Impala" multiple times.

[tsuki_no_bara]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA. i love that!