Flowers In The Attic

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Summary: The Best Book Of All Time
Review: I love Flowers In The Attic. It was the first V.C. Andrews book I ever read. I'm now hooked to her writing. I don't read alot, but I can't stop reading her books. I could read Flowers In The Attic over and over again!

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Summary: The Book That Started an Obession
Review: I bought my first copy of this book (the one with the original cover, not the movie one) for 10 cents at a garage sale. I had it for a few years before I actually read it, but once I picked it up, I couldn't put it down. I read it in one day and I have read every VC Andrews book I could get my hands on since. When I began reading this book, I really felt like I was getting to know the characters, and I felt like I was really a part of their world. I cried when their father died, not knowing the life the tradgedy would propel them into. I have never been so moved by a book!

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Summary: V.C. Andrews at her best!
Review: I first read this book when I was about 12, it became my favorite V.C. Andrews book. She writes in a way that makes you feel as though you are experiencing her character's hell, but you can't put the book down. At the end of the series I felt like I really knew these people. You really can tell she wrote this novel, not some "ghost writer". It is dark, hellish, painful, and sweet and enchanting at the same time.

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Summary: sick book
Review: One sick book! Tells of brother, sister sex, starving small children, with a disgusting plot. I would suggest a Danielle Steel book as V.C Andrew's books have the same dull thread... dead parents, kids end up with an evil care taker along with some incest to thicken the plot. Very dull read.

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Summary: A page-turner.
Review: Bleak, twisted, depressing, and unrealistic, but somehow wonderful at the same time. V.C. Andrews had true talent, and despite some serious flaws (such as needless descriptions of incest and violence), this book is a masterpiece.

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Summary: Extravagant in words, thoughts and your own feelings.
Review: This novel still keeps me engrossed and mezmerized whenever I read it,or any of its sequels. I am attracted to its originality,and its frightening means to tantalize,and at the same time scare the conscience mind. V.C Andrews sophisticated yet bold unrealisticness keeps you enchanted with "Cathy","Chris","Cory",and"Carrie",because of their vulnerability due to the horrific trauma,and betrayal their mother has given them. V.C Andrew's shocking description,and portrayal of the oldest childrens' lude sexuality,and the defying characteristics of the guilt-ridden grandmother, and her religious redemption is both horrifying, and exciting.Her unrelenting passing on of curousity, and intrigue is pure genious.

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Summary: the gothic classic that began it all.
Review: How I love V. C. Andrews, and today, November 1st is her 20th anniversary of her first published novel, Flowers in the Attic. This book is a classic, everyone should read it. V. C. Andrews was one of the most brilliant minds to ever put pen to paper. God, how I love her work!

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Summary: Very interesting, couldn't put it down
Review: This is a really great book. It kept me on the edge of my seat wondering how a mother could betray her children so horribly. And the grandmother, she was terrifying. Their mother and their grandmother did the most horrible things to them it will make you cringe. It was a little bit twisted though because a lot of the story revolves around incest. Still, my heart bled for Cathy, Chris, and especially poor Carrie when her twin brother Cory died. It will make you cry and it will definitely make you hate their mother and their grandmother. I would also definitely reccomend reading the rest of the series. The whole series is shocking.

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Summary: beautiful writing, but sick story.
Review: at first, when i started reading this book, i couldn't put it down. The writing was magnificent and i loved the plot and storyline. when i got to the incest part, i almost barfed at such a disgusting idea. it would have been perfect if not for that incestual part.

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Summary: Very good...Sickenly twisted and mesmerizing
Review: This book was very strange. And twisted. And horrible. But I loved it. I couldn't put it down, and when I did, all I wanted to do was pick it back up again. This book was wonderful, in a sick twisted way. But that's why we read it. I think it attracted me most because you know it could be true, but in a very far off place where the mother would have to be physically and mentally sick. Just that it could happen to some poor children somewhere made it scary. I can't imangine what it would be like to live in a room for three years with your siblings. And then Chris and Cathy are growing up and experiencing sexual desires and so on. It was just twisted. I just feel sorry for those four children that they had to go through all that. They definitley grew in that time. It shows you what can really happen when you don't let kids be kids. This is the only book I've read so far of this series, but I'm definitley planning on reading more. I don't think I could not read anymore after reading this twisted book. It draws me in and you want to know how the kids will do once they get out of the attic. I want to see how it will affect them. Scary. I can't wait.