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Summary: Heart Gripping
Review: I read this book when I was 14, and that was 10 years ago and after reading so many of her other books, I still feel that this book is the best. The moment I started reading it, I couldn't put the book down!! Reading the book itself has made me think more maturely. The book may be a fiction but I know that characters in that book exist in the real world. I feel that every character in that book reflects some part of our own lives. We often think we are better than the rest and holier than other people, selfish, arrogant and lust..I guess we are just deceiving ourselves if we say we do not have that sin. In short, this book is just awesome!!
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Summary: Overrated Movie
Review: This book is what really shed new light on how low the depths a prson could really go too get what they wanted....but in my honest to god opinion I hated the movie. Gave it NO JUSTICE at all. I wanted to throw it out the window when I was done watching it, and I would have to excpt it was rented. If you thought the movie was great and this and that and think the book is just a further installment or yada then your in for a depressing treat. Hardly anything that happens in the book happens in the movie. And I really disliked the end of the movie whn Corinne was hanged, I really liked her in the oddist way too....I think that Catherine turning her completely mad in Petals on the Wind was the perfect punishment....
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Summary: Money cures all...
Review: I have recently read many of the reviews, and I can agree that they are right. I was recommended to read this book when I was ten years old by my babysitter, now, three years later I still weep when the little boy Cory dies, and the mother Corinne shows no emmotion. It really hit home for me then, and always will, for I was in a simular state of mind ~no my mother did not lock me in an attic~. The truth about this story is nobody can say it was horrible. I mean it is, but it's the kind of story that you can easily believe. I mean ask yourself, and be honest, what are four children when compared to the riches that only can be harbored in your wildest dreams? Would you pass up that kind of money just stay with your children? Honestly, although many will say of course not, I can be honest and say I would. Call it dispicable but it's true....greed lives very popularly in human nature. In this novel V.C Andrews knew this and tried to capture that story I believe, having Cathy, the sucpicious one, the likely smartest one in this story, serve as the the one who was lauged at and ignored somewhat by Chris, Carrie, and Cory, who where optimist and who must have known deep down that Cathy was right.
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Summary: The Flowers in the Attic in this book are just blooming!
Review: This book was excellent! I couldn't put it down. I was truly shocked when I read this thrilling story of a mother's betrayal to her children when she locks them in the attic of Foxworth Hall for her own selfish reasons. Corine, their mother, is forced to depend on her parents when their father dies and they are left with little money to live off of. She must win over the heart of their cruel grandfather before she can take her children out of the attic and give them the many riches she constantly promises. As they wait for their mother to break the news to "the grandfather" they are forced to live with the many rules of their grandmother and her watching eyes. This book was V.C. Andrews first published book, and to my opinion one of her best. I was dissapointed at the end when they didn't give both their mother and grandmother exactly what they deserved! (They do in the next book Petals on the Wind) But I would definatly recommend this thrilling novel to anyone.
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Summary: An evil book
Review: As a young man, I always thought Virginia Andrews' writing was for women. I read it on a recommendation from an avid reader I trust, and I'm sorry I did.No, I couldn't stop reading it. And no, I didn't enjoy it. I'm in my late twenties now, and wanted to call my mother and make her promise she'd never have done that to me (it was 3.30am). It disturbed me so deeply and seemed to be about an evil so much more horrible than the serial killers, mad dictators and supernatural beasts that fiction is filled with nowadays. I loved it while I was reading it only because I was anticipating the delicious revenge I knew they must visit on the mother and grandmother. But without spoiling the ending, suffice it to say that there is no satisfaction by the end of the book if you're spending the whole time waiting for the mother to get her just desserts. It was made worse by the boy, Chris, and his refusal to stand up to either woman in his blind faith that their mother was on their side. I hoped because of that that his revenge would be sudden and murderous. I closed the book after reading it very unhappy and disturbed, no matter how much they decided to let the past go and get on with their own lives, and I'm too frightened to read the sequel and go through it all again in case they don't find their mother and mutilate or torture her to death like I wanted to.
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Summary: Extraordinarily moving Gothic tale
Review: "Flowers In The Attic" will always remain on my top five list of favorite books ever. This enormously popular tale works on so many levels: drama, suspense, horror, mystery, literature. The plight of Christopher, Cathy, Carrie, and Cory is so involving and tragic. The characters are well drawn, and very likeable. This is a classic coming of age story, and though shocking at times, will move you. A must own. A must read. Should be on the top books for the 1990s list.
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Summary: There Are Flowers In Everyones Attic
Review: A mother filled with greed, a grandmother filled with hate and jealousey, and an attic full of imagination. These are the only things that Cathy, Chris, Cory and Carrie had that reamined true during their most percious years of life, childhood. After the death of their beloved father, they were taken by their mother, and brought to their evil, hateful, grandmothers house. There, they were locked up in a small room, with a door leading to the attic. They were locked up there "temporarily." In that attic, the children played, somewhat happily. Chris being 14, Carrie and Cory being 5 year old twins, and Cathy being 12, were robbed of many things growing up in this attic. Another thing to deal with was their cruel grandmother. This life was very hard for all of the children, but it mad for a very interesting story. I would reccommend the book "Flowers in the Attic" to anyone who likes suspensful stories that you simply cannot put down. This novel, by V.C. Andrews, is an amazing work of literature, that is well written and creative. It is a very powerful story that causes you to think about situations you never realized existed.
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Summary: Superb!
Review: This is the second of a magnificent series of five books. Never, has a novel haunted me like this one. It will stay with you years after you read it. The story is deeply touching and sad. I have never wanted a villian to pay so much for her actions as much as I did in this book. I find myself rereading these books at night when I cannot sleep and I am once again awed and bewildered by the tale of four children alone in an attic. Many people are turned off by the incest. I find it realistic, sad and intriguing. Books are supposed to explore the dark, complicated, intense desires of humans. If they didn't, the book would lack power and would fall flat on its face. Don't let that aspect turn you off. This book is priceless. I will be lucky to read another story even half as beautiful.
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Summary: VCA's best ever
Review: This was the first book written by Virginia Cleo Andrews that got published. Alright all the characters are great. Cathy is a very powerful herione,Chris is the intelligent one,Carrie and Corey are imseperable. This book is about survival. After their father dies Corrine(their mother) tells the children that they are to move in with their grandfather who is filthy rich and they will live a wonderful life. However to their horror they are to stay in the attic where there grandfather will never know about them. Because they were born out of sin,incest. They stay in that attic for over 3 years. It deals with starvation,abuse,murder,and incest.
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Summary: By Far the Best
Review: If you have ever seen the movie Flowers in the Attic, you MUST read this book. The book is by far better then the movie!! The entire seriers was AWESOME!! Make sure you do read them all in order and if you want to understand why Oliva was such a evil person to those kids, you must read Garden of Shadows. The only thing that I did not like about this book is the Chistopher and Cathy "relationship". Other then that it was a great book!!
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