Flowers in the Attic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. Never read the boom but just read the plot summary on Wikipedia. WTF? Why would anyone read or watch such garbage?

I had the exact same reaction after reading the wiki description. I recall my friends reading the books when I was in high school, but I was too busy with my Jane Austen obsession.

[Anonymous]

Thank GOD I grew out of VC Andrews otherwise my poor daughter would be named Audrina.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. Never read the boom but just read the plot summary on Wikipedia. WTF? Why would anyone read or watch such garbage?

I had the exact same reaction after reading the wiki description. I recall my friends reading the books when I was in high school, but I was too busy with my Jane Austen obsession.

Well, aren't you superior, what with your more refined taste!

It isn't one or the other. I read literary classics and things like Flowers in the Attic when I was young. Everyone has guilty pleasures. I'm sure even you do, or you wouldn't be posting on a thread about Flowers in the Attic on an internet forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank GOD I grew out of VC Andrews otherwise my poor daughter would be named Audrina.

Yeah but that was one of the best books because it never had any sequels. Also, i read the books when I was young and I remember being really confused why she was in the hospital in her early years. I still can't remember.

[Anonymous]

its on!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank GOD I grew out of VC Andrews otherwise my poor daughter would be named Audrina.

Or Heaven. OMG. So long ago. N

[Anonymous]

I also read them as a middle schooler, at my grandparents' house in the summer. Remember being horrified but could not stop reading.

[Anonymous]

I read these as a child and liked them. I'm watching the movie now and I think I'm going to turn it off. As a mother, I'm horrified and feel bad for those kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read these as a child and liked them. I'm watching the movie now and I think I'm going to turn it off. As a mother, I'm horrified and feel bad for those kids.

grow up. It's a movie.

[Anonymous]

So what did everyone think?

[Anonymous]

I only watched a little and DVRed the rest, but it was deliciously terrible. And Heather Graham...wow. Not a great dramatic actress.

[Anonymous]

I thought Heather Graham was a bad actress, too. Helen Burstyn was wonderful----kids were good. I had forgotten a lot of the details of the story (like the fact that there was even a "mother" in the picture.) But I loved everything else. Gripping in the worst possible way! It was appropriately dark & creepy....Maybe they will make a weekly series out of it? I heard they are already working on part 2 by popular demand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. Never read the boom but just read the plot summary on Wikipedia. WTF? Why would anyone read or watch such garbage?

I had the exact same reaction after reading the wiki description. I recall my friends reading the books when I was in high school, but I was too busy with my Jane Austen obsession.

Well, aren't you superior, what with your more refined taste!

It isn't one or the other. I read literary classics and things like Flowers in the Attic when I was young. Everyone has guilty pleasures. I'm sure even you do, or you wouldn't be posting on a thread about Flowers in the Attic on an internet forum.

You missed the point. I was joking about my Jane Austen obsession. I realize that was pretentious teenaged girl stuff. But I stand by my assertion that the Flowers in the Attic storyline is shocking, ridiculous and gross. I truly cannot see the appeal either to teens or grown women.

[Anonymous]

Oh, man, that was terrible. In the best Lifetime way. Ellen Burstyn was great. "I wouldn't eat them -- bad for your health." LOLOLOLOL.

I can't imagine watching this without having read the books and cringing in remembered middle school horror at the whole thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. Never read the boom but just read the plot summary on Wikipedia. WTF? Why would anyone read or watch such garbage?

I had the exact same reaction after reading the wiki description. I recall my friends reading the books when I was in high school, but I was too busy with my Jane Austen obsession.

Well, aren't you superior, what with your more refined taste!

It isn't one or the other. I read literary classics and things like Flowers in the Attic when I was young. Everyone has guilty pleasures. I'm sure even you do, or you wouldn't be posting on a thread about Flowers in the Attic on an internet forum.

You missed the point. I was joking about my Jane Austen obsession. I realize that was pretentious teenaged girl stuff. But I stand by my assertion that the Flowers in the Attic storyline is shocking, ridiculous and gross. I truly cannot see the appeal either to teens or grown women.

Not PP, but books like Flowers in the Attic were the ideal trashy beach read for a tween/teen back in the day. All the Christopher Pike books, too. Wonderful, wonderful trash.