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[thisautumn]

for christmas, i want to give everyone v.c. andrews novels.
i'm not even kidding.

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[naiveinsight]

Oh my God, I had better be on your Christmas list.

[thisautumn]

seriously, wouldn't that be great? to like get "flowers in the attic" or "heaven" in your stocking? nobody took me seriously when i mentioned it earlier, but now....now this ball is rolling.

My dirty little secret

[rightnow]

Up until three years ago, I had read every single V.C Andrews book ever written. She followed me from 5th grade all the way through college and beyond.

Re: My dirty little secret

[thisautumn]

how did you come across v.c. andrews?
my sister came back from a used bookstore when i was about 11/12 and she handed me a copy of "flowers in the attic" and i was addicted. i felt filthy! but i wanted more so i eventually read the entire series including the prequel and then moved on to the "dawn" and "heaven" series.

Re: My dirty little secret

[rightnow]

My grandma bought Flowers In the Attic for me at a used book store. It was dirty and wonderful and shocking and I was addicted.

[catch_her]

oh man, that'd be an awesome christmas present. i used to gobble up those novels like mad when i was young. there was something so dirty and exciting about reading "flowers in the attic" and the rest of that series.

[thisautumn]

i could probably read "flowers in the attic" 100 times. no joke. i tried to explain the whole thing to hayden and he just kept saying, "WHAT!" because like he couldn't really properly imagine the whole thing about cathy and christopher having sex, and the grandmother feeding them arsenic.

i just realized that there is a v.c. andrews livejournal community. :O

[catch_her]

you've inspired me ditte. i'm going to my local library and checking out some v.c. andrews to read during the winter break. it's going to be glorious.

[juicedance]

i would prefer socks.

[thisautumn]

socks aren't filled with incestous sex.

[juicedance]

that's completely dependent on what you're willing to do with them.

[thisautumn]

hahaha oh my god.

[tartarsauce]

i loved those books too. especially flowers in the attic. who could have guessed that so many pre-adolescent girls have a secret lust for hot brother-on-sister sex? i remember going to the library and reading every v.c. andrews book i could find when i was maybe eleven. i wonder if there's a biography of her anywhere. she must have had some kind of interesting background to write such tragic and erotic trashy books.

[thisautumn]

that what i was thinking too. about the trashy and tragic background. because there's a main theme to all of her female characters in her books which is being taken advantage of by older men. oh but i love it all the same.

i always felt dirty checking out her books at the library. especially since there was this one librarian who would always say, "oh! you're reading heaven now?!" which basically translated to, "you like softcore smut?"

[tartarsauce]

she was wheelchair-bound with a domineering mother. no news on whether she screwed her brother, or whether she always wanted to. and i think what you said, that is the appeal to young women. the being taken advantage of by older men is done in this...HOT way.

and ha ha when i check out bad romance novels to people at the library, and i am not talking v.c. andrews but like, the bad historical fiction paperbacks full of sex, i have to restrain myself from saying ANYTHING AT ALL because everything comes out with an overtone of "you like softcore smut?"