VC Andrews
By SomeCowgirl
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
United States
September 20, 2010 11:46am CST
Who here has read VC Andrews? This is my first time reading her that I know of, but I have seen the movie Flowers in The Attic. I am collecting some of her series'. Who enjoys her books? Do you have a collection of her books? Does she have another psuedonym? I am trying to learn the psuedonym of all authors I might have as I plan to have a grand collection of books eventually.
5 responses
@RebeccaScarlett (2532)
• Canada
20 Sep 10
I enjoy her books also, although she is always writing about kids and teens having their innocence stolen, usually through betrayal and incest. Very dark. Makes you wonder what kind of crazy stuff she might have gone through in her life.
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
20 Sep 10
Yes it does. I've only started to read My Sweet Audrina, as I said above I believe this is the first I've read of her. I've seen Flowers in The Attic, and want to get the book to read. Just like Edgar Allen Poe had dark stories, so did V.C. Andrews.
Oh I read somewhere that Flowers in The Attic was based on truth, but not of her own. Her father or some other relative sent her to an asylum or hospital (I forget which) where she met a man to whom was locked in an attic with his siblings. I suppose I'd best just go look it up and post the link here, I read it on her website I believe...
Okay he was locked in there to preserve the family wealth, here is where I read about it. It's on a fan based website so in truth it could be well not, but I wouldn't think they'd lie about it.
http://www.completevca.com/bio_truestory.shtml
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
20 Sep 10
The movie is usually not as good as the book. I'll have to buy the book at some point. We scavangered for it at Goodwill's but can't find it, though we found other books by her. I'll have to buy it online I suppose, which isn't a problem for me. I swear someone in my family had the book at one point but I could just be thinking of the movie, that I know my grandmother has.
@beaniefanatic13 (5076)
• Grand Junction, Colorado
24 Sep 10
I absolutely loved her. When the ghost writer started though I lost interest they just weren't the same. I own every book she wrote, she is one of my most favorite authors. Yes she is dark, but I really loved them you just didn't know how bad it would get reading them. The book your currently reading is the only book she wrote that wasn't in a series of books. Makes me want to go to storage and dig them all out again. Happy reading.
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
22 Sep 10
This author is that that made me love to read novels. I read my first book by her when I was like 12 or 13. There is only one book that she wrote that was not a series. The name of it was My Sweet Audrina. It was awesome! There is a ghost writer that took over after she passed. The family hired her. It's the same..but not. I stopped reading the series after the ghost writer took over. I knew right away that it wasn't V.C Andrews.
@beaniefanatic13 (5076)
• Grand Junction, Colorado
24 Sep 10
I felt the same way after she passed and read a book by the ghost writer, I knew something was different but didn't know why. Then a short time later I heard she had passed away and that a ghost writer was completeing stories that she had started ideas on. I loved her books also and read the Flowers in the Attic when I was 14 took me forever to get my hands on the book, then while I was reading my mom kept asking me what it was about.....uhmmmm it's about a girl that gets locked in an attic with her 2 brothers and a sister and the moms mean.
Then she read it a couple years later and was none to happy with me.
Then she read it a couple years later and was none to happy with me.@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
24 Sep 10
LOL...I bet your mom was surprised...well...my grandmother and grandfather had books everywhere. I think that they were just happy that I was a kid that loved to read like I did. I did read some things that I probably would not let my children read at the same age
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That ghostwriter is still writing under the name as far as I know. I see the books from time to time.
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That ghostwriter is still writing under the name as far as I know. I see the books from time to time.
@midoritot (10)
• Philippines
7 Oct 10
i read some of her books way back, and yes, i do agree with most of the respondents here that they were dark and twisted. it's too heavy for me to read. i read Flowers in the Attic, Petals in the Wind. I think that's the Dollaganger series where the twins in the book fell in love with each other after being locked up in the attic most of their lives by their own mother. i would see those books in the teen sections together with Sweet Valley High series. i was surprised because knowing the content or theme of the books, i don't think it should be in that section at all. i wouldn't advise someone in their teens to read this. however, at that time, i really got hooked with the plot. i just don't think i will pick up a copy of her book anytime soon. it's too depressing for me.
