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Summary: A classic thriller
Review: This book is a classic and none of the others that followed ever held up as well. Young Cathy tells how after losing their father, she, her older brother Christopher, and the little twins Cory and Carrie travel with their mother back to her childhood home. Only then do they find out that her mother's family is wealthy and that something had happened that caused her father to cast her from his home. Upon arriving to their destination, the children are shocked to realize that their grandfather does not know of their existance and that they must remain hidden in a remote part of the house and the attic until their mother can work her way back into his good graces. Thrilling and horrifying this book tells how Cathy and Christopher care for themselves and the twins, relying only on each other while they wait for their freedom.
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Summary: Good as far as trashy novels go
Review: Flowers in the Attic has twisted characters and a twisted story of incest and dark family secrets. I think the movie "The Sixth Sense" borrowed from this book the thing about feeding poison to the daughter. I read this book over 10 years ago and I still remember the thing about those powdered donuts. Read this book for the pure entertainment value of the disturbing and interesting story but don't expect to get anything out of it. It's a quick read. If you get hooked on the story, there's a whole Dollanganger series. It's fun and better than TV.
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Summary: The most disgusting, horrible, awful book I have ever read
Review: Ugh! I can't believe I actually thought I was going to like this thing! This is one of those books with sick, twisted, demented characters who do sick things. *Do not read this book* under any circumstances! Here's a brief synopsis. The book starts out with the mother getting pregnant, the main character throwing a hissy fit because she thinks she will lose some attention, then the father dying. I can't and won't explain everything going on in the family at this point, but the kids are brought into three rooms to stay until the grandfather dies. From here, it just goes downhill, and the ending violently hits rock bottom. I just wanted to cry when I realized that I had to stick around for 411 pages. I cannot stress my final point enough: DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Five innocent children and a selfish mother
Review: This book receives 5 stars because I thought it was a classic. The father was killed and the mother is left to raise her 5 children. She asks the help of her wealthy mother who only wants to hide the children in a room with an attic in return. These children live their lives in this room for 3 years and they go through horrifying experiences while they are there. This book is one of the best.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: Have you ever read book that just puts knots in your stomach? This one will do it to you. After I read this story, I wanted to run in a marathon, climb a tree, plant a garden, hug my kids. All the things that Cris, Cathy, Corrie and Carrie were not allowed to do for over three years. You wished parents wouldn't hurt kids the way these were hurt, but bad things happen to real children every day. They were siblings and all they wanted was someone to love them and they had no one -- expecially not there mother! Each child learned to cope with the deceit. Each child learned how to live with the pain infliced on them. They escaped their prison in the attic but the scars were there, never to go away.
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Summary: Disturbing
Review: Boy, this book probably one of the most twisted ones that I've ever read (and believe me, considering that whacked out books are my basic genere, I've read a lot of books you could call "twisted". This one takes the cake.) It's one of those that you don't forget; that keeps you up at night months after you've finished reading it. I must admire V.C. Andrew's courage, however, on putting out such a controversial book. When you read this, prepared to be - shocked - a lot - to say the least. When I read this, my jaw dropped to the floor so often that it finally just stayed there. I mean, in the beggining, I thought the way Cathy and Chris acted towards eachother was kind of wierd, but then, I thought "Well, I haven't got an older brother, so I'm in no position to judge them, right?" I gave them the benefit of the doubt, until it became painfully obvious that . . . something wasn't right. It's heartbreaking; the way that the Grandmother, in her own backwards style, practically shoves them into each other's arms; and how they come to depend upon each other so much. If you'd seen this scenario presented in any other way, you would have brushed Chris and Cathy off as a pair of incestious perverts. But the way V.C. Andrews makes you see it, you just . . . can't; you feel so sorry for them. What really scared ME about this book, was that this COULD still happen; even right now as I type this. I couldn't believe the transformation of their mother's character; the way she was the perfect mother in the beginning, and then she started to slide down and down and down. . .that scared me too. I thought: What if that happens to MY mother? You might wanna read this book, but be forewarned: if you're not prepared to be totally shocked, disgusted, hearbroken, etc. , then DON'T read it.
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Summary: To Grandmother's House We Go
Review: I first read this book when I was entering the seventh grade, and while I had seen the movie previously, I was not prepared for the experience. The only proper word for it is "harrowing". There is something in this book--this tale of four children locked away and at the mercy of a demonic grandmother--that echoes through the heart and mind and refuses to let go. I myself have gone back numerous times to re-read portions of the novel. Is the book well-written? Yes, although some of the dialogue is less than realistic. The characters are all well-drawn and interesting, and the proof of this lies in the fact that the reader truly cares what happens to them. While Cory's death was a wrench, I found Cathy and Chris's situation--their incestuous love for each other--even more heartbreaking. At this point, at 23, I still cannot read the book again straight through because of it. Also, it is disturbing to think that such events (i.e.,the children's imprisonment, the abuse), really could have, and probably do, happen. This is a grim novel, an ominous indication of the trouble our world is in, but I would recommend it for the simple reason that it does what all good books are supposed to do--it makes one forget one's own problems in light of the problems being dealt with in its story.
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Summary: Total Page Turner
Review: Aaah this book was the first i've read by V.C Andrews. Talk about totally horrifying! It made me want to smack that grandmother and that awful mom at the same time. Like i wanted to stop reading it, but then i wanted to keep reading on. This is one of those stories that i know will be forever engraved in my memory. Just thinking that there's more in this series gives me the heebee jeebees. How worse can it get, i guess there's only one way to find out..but still, it was a great read
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Summary: after all these years it's still haunting...
Review: I first read this when i was in the 7th grade. A couple of years ago I read it again, from the perspective of a 24 year old. The book had the same affect on me. I remember thinking about how wonderful their lives would have been if the father had not died, how tramatic moving to the big house was, how much faith I even had in Corrinne, how scary it was when the twins started getting sick, when cory was taken away, when chris and cathy had the accident with the scissors, everything comes back so vividly. Is this book a great work of literary fiction? No, but it is great escapism, it is something that when you read it, it will stay in your memory forever. The whole series was excellent. Being at the age that I was, Garden of Shadows came out AFTER the first 4, which I found to be much more interesting. Readers my age were given no motivation to the evil grandmother and mother's behavior, that made it much more frusterating. Highly recommend - but beware! It will stay with you forever. Oh yeah, and do your best to stay away from that movie!
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Summary: Best Book Ever
Review: "Flowers In The Attic" was the first book of V.C. Andrews I read. It was the best book ever and kept me on the edge of my seat until the end. Since then, I have only read books written by V.C. Andrews including the other four novels that continued after "Flowers In The Attic."
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