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Post by Injeanious on Oct 18, 2008 9:44:24 GMT 9.5
I am reading You Can't Hide by Karen Rose at the moment - a murder mystery. On one page a body is found with a CD underneath him. The CD was Phantom of the Opera. Apparently some weeks earlier the dead man had been listening to the CD in his car and had been singing along to Music of the Night when he parked his car, went into work and forgot that his baby son was in a carseat in the back of the car, and the baby died from the heat in the van.
So, that is the first time I have read about POTO in a novel - has anyone else spotted any references?
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Post by killerbananas on Jan 3, 2009 17:49:54 GMT 9.5
A VC Andrews series mentions Phantom in every book.
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Post by poppy on Jan 3, 2009 18:07:10 GMT 9.5
VC Andrews sounds familiar.....did she write Flowers in the Attic?
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Post by killerbananas on Jan 3, 2009 21:24:23 GMT 9.5
Well, Virginia Andrews wrote the Dollanganger saga (which starts with Flowers In The Attic), VC Andrews is her estate, which continued finishing (as in, its not technically her work) and publishing her books. In short, yes she did  |
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Post by Marie-Cris on Jan 3, 2009 21:30:11 GMT 9.5
I read most of the series in succession, up until the series about Melody, I think. I found them rather repetative after a while, but I've still got some on my shelf ((I never got many of the books in the first place)). I heard her family wrote it after she died.
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Post by poppy on Jan 3, 2009 23:34:07 GMT 9.5
I read those books 20+years ago, and seeing the movie which was kinda weird too!
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Post by Marie-Cris on Jan 4, 2009 12:17:03 GMT 9.5
There was a movie? O)_o
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Post by killerbananas on Jan 4, 2009 16:03:36 GMT 9.5
The Flowers in Attic movie is utter crap. Mar, did you actually read each series on published order? No wonder it got repetitive- you need to mix it up between the Virginia Andrews and VC Andrews series'. And after her death her family/estate commissioned writers to take her drafts and notes and turn them into finished stories.
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Post by Marie-Cris on Jan 4, 2009 18:05:46 GMT 9.5
I did. There were some series I preferred over others ... Now I'm rather tempted to complete the sets I've got on my shelf. Pity the only books sold in this town are at the Op Shop ((which consists mainly of lady porn and scribbled on children's books ... and a heck load of Reader's Digest)).
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Post by killerbananas on Jan 4, 2009 19:38:09 GMT 9.5
I'm reading the Hudson series at the moment, and enjoying it. It's a bit different from the usual father dying/incest/slutty female character storyline |
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Post by poppy on Jan 4, 2009 20:12:53 GMT 9.5
I only read the first four books in order and stopped there, and Bec your right the movie was crap.
(but loves a slutty female character story line)
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Post by killerbananas on Jan 4, 2009 20:14:34 GMT 9.5
So you haven't read Garden of Shadows? NOES! If you've read the C&C Dollanganger books you have to read the prequel!
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Post by poppy on Jan 4, 2009 20:30:31 GMT 9.5
Oh that does sound familiar , but I don't thnk I read it. It was soooooo long ago. Now you have me adding them to my must read list.
I can only actually remember Flowers in the Attic, Petals on the Wind and the other two titles are buried under some empty bottles in the back of my mind.
*heads off to Ebay*
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Post by killerbananas on Jan 4, 2009 20:42:47 GMT 9.5
If There Be Thorns and Seeds of Yesterday are the third and fourth novels. I love Garden of Shadows, it just completes the shady backstory that hovered around the C&C Dollanganger saga.
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Post by poppy on Jan 4, 2009 20:52:12 GMT 9.5
Thanks, I don't think I would have remembered those titles.
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Post by killerbananas on Jan 4, 2009 21:03:20 GMT 9.5
I still remember trying to explain them to my friends, and one of them looking at me and saying "You're enjoying a book where there's incest?! Are you insane?!"
But damnit, they're good!
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Post by poppy on Jan 4, 2009 21:13:05 GMT 9.5
It's kind of like a car crash you know you shouldn't look, but...........
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Post by killerbananas on Jan 4, 2009 21:15:27 GMT 9.5
Especially when you know its going to happen, and then it winds up like twisted Mills & Boon.
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Post by poppy on Jan 4, 2009 21:27:37 GMT 9.5
My mum had bags of those M&b books in her closet she called them her escape from reality. My escape revolves around Ant and being on here!
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Post by Marie-Cris on Jan 4, 2009 23:25:35 GMT 9.5
Spoiler ... ish ... I think the one I found the most shocking was the female character being in love with her uncle ... and then several books later it turns out they weren't even related, so that the daughter of this girl ((or something)) is free to be in love with her cousin because it's not really her cousin.
Something like that. It's been a while since I read them. |
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Post by killerbananas on Jan 4, 2009 23:39:11 GMT 9.5
A similar thing happens in the Hudson series, with the main character Rain- her brother loves her more than a brother should, but then it turns out that they are actually not siblings, not even blood relatives, and so it's alright. Although there was pretty much nothing compared to FINTA. That's the worst of the incest ones.
The majority of VC Andrews involve the main girl (always a girl...) being full of virtue until she meets that one boy and then suddenly loses all self control. *rolls eyes*
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Post by poppy on Jan 5, 2009 10:16:18 GMT 9.5
^Kinda like us with that one boy(or should i say bald man)and being full of virtue before encountering Sandy. |
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Post by Marie-Cris on Jan 5, 2009 19:54:27 GMT 9.5
 Quote-worthy. |
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Post by roguecannon on Jan 5, 2009 20:46:14 GMT 9.5
*Walks into thread, opens mouth*
*Pauses*
*Looks around*
*Walks right the f*#( back out again*
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Post by Marie-Cris on Jan 5, 2009 20:56:02 GMT 9.5
See, THIS is why our boys walked out.
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Post by killerbananas on Jan 5, 2009 21:04:13 GMT 9.5
Is rogue the only boy we have left posting? I mean, Josh is still around, he just don't post.
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Post by Marie-Cris on Jan 5, 2009 21:15:46 GMT 9.5
He could very well be; we've got to make this place more male-friendly.
But not right now, it's 10:15.
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