How Long To Read Flowers In The Attic
However unless you have to read them for school like my youngest did don t waste your money they have very li.
How long to read flowers in the attic. She told her friend a literary agent who. Open the window and stand in the sunshine. Christopher garland chris dollanganger jr. Born so brightly colored and fading duller through all those long grim dreary nightmarish days when we were held prisoners of hope and kept captives by greed.
Older son and oldest child of christopher and corrine. He is an over achiever and later becomes a doctor. I read flowers in the attic back in probably my early teens. Contains spoilers if you ve managed to avoid this book for the past 35 years.
She stayed up until 2am reading it in one long gulp. For personal reasons i was disturbed by the infamous incest subplot that the book has and the story always sounded very odd to me. Chris is the older brother of cathy cory and carrie. Originally released in 1979 i recall this book as being exciting and v c andrews probably one of the few authors at the time that you could consider ya reading and that to a reader of my age at the time was something awesome.
I ve read a number of other v c. Flowers in the attic virginia andrews the dollanger family was a very happy and firm family father mother one daughter cathy one son chris and a twins carry and cory. Andrews books but flowers in the attic is one which i could never quite bring myself to be interested in. To her fans published one of the trashiest books in the trashy paperback canon.
In 1979 cleo virginia andrews known as v c. I ve been reluctant to read flowers in the attic for a long time. Flowers in the attic petals on the wind if there be thorns seeds of yesterday. That evening father has become 36 everybody was dressed very chiquely and everyone waits with anguish for the moment of father s arrival but he doesn t come.
On reading and being freaked out by flowers in the attic as an adult warning. Yet i hesitate to name our story that. Andrews who was both named virginia and from virginia bestowed upon the jaded world a gothic tale of imprisonment abuse southern fried religious fanaticism and of course incest that continues to shock readers to this day. For i think of us more as flowers in the attic.