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Summary: This book is the best!
Review: This is the best book ever! I love this book so much. It is very exciting and sad. If you like to have a good cry and a good laugh i suggest this book to you. It i gripping and you wont put it down till the last word! I suggest this book to anyone and everyone!
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Summary: Excellent Read!
Review: I was first introduced to "Flowers in the Attic" through the 1987 film starring Kristy Swanson. Now, these many years later I have finally read the book. I started out of order, reading "Garden of Shadows" the last book in the series, but prequel to "Flowers in the Attic" first. I have to say that this book is very good! You will be glued to the book from start to finish.The story revolves around the Dollanganger family. One evening Christopher Dollanganger dies in a car crash and his family, consisting of his wife and four children, must go back and live with their family in Foxworth Hall. Both Christopher and his wife, Corrine, grew up in this mansion. It is because of their incestuous marriage that they were both banished from their home and their family. Wanting to recapture her father's adoration and love, Corrine comes home and hides her children, so that she may inherit his vast fortune. She asks her mother to watch over the children, who are confined to the North wing of the house. They are not allowed to leave this area and can only go up into the attic. Soon their mother pretty much abandons them and leaves them to rot in the attic while she lives her life without them. Their evil grandmother does everything in her power to make them feel as bad, horrible, and dirty as possible, wanting to punish them for what their parents had done nearly 20 years prior. Soon the children discover that they are slowly being poisoned and why they are trying to be killed. This book is an excellent tale of deceit, love, hate, pain, and triumph. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone! You won't be disappointed!
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Summary: adolescent tripe
Review: I first read the entire saga as a teenager in Edinburgh. I was enthralled by all the 'naughty' issues raised & felt deeply adult dealing with the concept of incest. However, even as a 14 year old I became increasingly aware that I was reading unmitigated rubbish as the series went on. Oh look: She's a world famous ballerina without a Gulag training. Chris: MY didn't you do well. I seem to remember some strange Bart creature who couldn't feel pain, although there was no explanation how he became a rich & handsome stud. I don't remember much more, but I 'm glad I've grown up. By 16. One review states 'I recommend this to anyone who can read'. Read at your own risk. Anne Frank anyone?
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Summary: A great book!
Review: I loved this book. It had me hooked after reading the prologue. Virgina Andrews has wonderful prose and has written a suspenseful storyline. The writing style reminds me of my favorite author, Sherry A. Mauro and her novel, EVEN ANGELS FALL. I look forward to reading more books by both these great authors!
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Summary: flowers in the attic
Review: this book moved me from start to finish. Heavy issues are doubt with openly in the book which did shock me a little and i am glad that the author touched many subjects in which we do not openly talk about in life. The realism of the plot is errie which added to the suspense.
And after reading the book i took great pity on chris and cathy feeling that i had connected with these characters.
i do feel that christopher genuingly fell in love with cathy obviously this love was spurred on by the constant separation from the outside world and girls his age. But in the end i feel he could not help falling in love with her as in that attic they had bonded so close that it grew to the bond of 2 lovers.
Dispite the fact they were brother and sister i felt content with their relationship as i read the book. It just proves that love is the strangest thing in the world....
Great read ! if not disturbing i would advise people of only a mature age to read this book as the issues may be hard to understand at first.
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Summary: Disturbing
Review: Rumour has it this book is based on true facts. If such is the case, then it shows the worst side of our nature and how when money enters the picture, it can cloud what was in the beginning a good intention. Narrated by Cathy Dollanganger, the novel is tells the story of four beautiful children who were locked in the attic by their mother. After the death of her father, her mother possessing no skills and no means by which to support the family is forced to turn back to her grandparents who disowned her mother for marrying her half brother. She is accepted, but under one condition, her grandfather must never know about the four of them. In the beginning the plan was that her mother would use her beauty, and winsome charm on the grandfather so he would accept Cathy, her brother and the twins. In the beginning, Cathy says they believed her. As time flew past, frustration set in and finally a loss of hope and faith. Their lives, how they coped, managed in the attic is narrated well by Cathy and through her eyes. Emotions are described well enough that you feel them and can identify with the characters, an essential if the book is to be a good read.
It is another one of those books that is disturbing, but makes a good read nevertheless.
A note however, to those of you who think that the rest of the books in this series would make a good read, you're mistaken. This is the only book in the series that's worthy of mentioning nevermind reading.
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Summary: Amazing...
Review: This is the book that started it all for me. I read this book for the very first time when I was in 6th grade (12 years old), and like many others it led to the reading of hundreds of other books. I am now 24, with a 3 year old daughter, and cannot wait until she is old enough for me to hand her my copy and hope she develops a love for reading as I have. I always did exceedingly well in reading in school, but I did not enjoy it. But all that changed when a friend of mine finished reading this book, and she passed it along to me. I will never forget the day when I cracked open the book to the first page. I remember that I saw the movie that was based on this book, and I thought it was totally creepy and just had to give the book a try. I remember my mom wouldn't buy it for me b/c she didn't think I was old enough for it at the time, but fate eventually interceded and I was given the opportunity of a lifetime. This book is fabulous. Read it yourself or give it as a gift to someone that doesn't typically like to read. All that will change and they too will become addicted and have to read all of her series. All are great with the exception of the new series'. You can definitely tell the new ones were not written by VC. VC Andrews has a pattern and that's what makes them so good. The new ones unfortunately do not. So, if you want to start a new author, or are just reliving the experience of a great book, pick up Flowers in the Attic. You will not be disappointed. And, of course, continue on thru Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows. You will never be left hanging because the series tie up all the loose ends within the 5 books. And when you are done, move on to the Cutler series and all the others. They are great as well.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: This book sure makes you thankful for your parents. Its about a family that was once happy then the dad dies and things change. The mom goes back to live with her parents at their mansion. Under one condition, the father is not to find out about the children. So the grandmother puts them in the attic and there is where they live for a long time.They are told to be quiet or they wont get to see their mother. The grandmother bring them food every couple days. They ahve to take care of their little brother. COry is the baby and Chis and Cathy are the older kids. The book had lots of sadness and some romance.I liked the book. I am going to read the next one.
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Summary: SELFISH LIFE
Review: The book I read is called "Flowers in the Attic" by V.C. Andrews. This book is about a lady named corrine,she comes from a wealthy family she marries her half-uncle.Corrines parents did not approve of their marriage yet they still got married and had four children.They had two twins their names were Carie and Corey one was a boy and one was a girl.The other two were chris and cathy.After Corrines dad found out that she married christopher he said that if she ever had children with him she will not inherit anything.Corrines husband worked out of state and he went to visit his family only once a week. His family had planned a surprise party for him because it was going to be his birthday. That day when he was going on his way home he sadly had a car accident and he died. After his death Corrine could not keep up with the bills of the house because she spend a lot of money on herself and they began to have too many debts. Corrine calls her mother for help and all the family moves to Boston with Corrines mother. She locks the four children in the attic and Corrine promises that when her dad dies she will let them out. Corrine gets married again and she leaves her house to go to her honeymoon.She leaves her mother in charge of the four children. She does not like her grandchildren so she starts giving them doughnuts with arsenic. They eat them not knowing that they are being poisoned. The ending I leave it for you to find out. I basically already summarized the whole book but I leave the ending for you guys to read.I know that you would enjoy the ending so go get your book and start reading it. All I tell you is that at the end it's kind of sad. I called this review selfish life because the mother sacrifices her kids for her own good.
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Summary: A book Im stuck on
Review: Buetifully written this is a prize winning book I love This book tore my heart out I cried my eyes out It was so great Im glad she wrote this book cause it teaches what a mom shouldnt be like i hope Moms relize dont treat your childrea like this or theyll hurt you more in the future Great it took my heart Read it
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