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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.

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 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.

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.

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

So what did everyone think?

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.

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.

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

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

its on!

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 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.

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

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.